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SAND PATTERNS

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Thyme Again gardens

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ADOLPHUSTOWN CELEBRATES ITS 230th BIRTHDAY

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Paul and Maria’s Huyck’s Point Home

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Cape Vesey, Waupoos, and the County’s Eastern Excitement

by Veronica Leonard

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Blue Whales on the Bay of Quinte

by John Martinello

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When life gives you apples

by Carly Baxter

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Saitarg’s GQ

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by Alan Gratias

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Brighton invites you to come and enjoy the inspiring colours, exciting events and unique shopping experiences this town has to offer in the Fall. Browse the boutiques on our historic Main Street, enjoy a nature walk along the many trails at our local and provincial

parks or plan a leisurely drive along one of Northumberland County’s themed tours. The faces of Brighton are ready to welcome you.

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Visiting these roadside stands is an adventure and an education, and for far too many people, a discovery.

Growing up on a farm on the southern edge of the Canadian Shield meant having a connection with our food was just a part of our day-today living. My Mom grew a huge garden, as did her mother. It was what women did in those days. It’s probably why they were the good old days. We had Quarter Horses and Registered Polled Hereford cattle, chickens, ducks, and the pigeon my sister found between rocks, wrapped in fishing line. The pigeon lived a long time after that, roosting with the chickens and wandering with the ducks.

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supply side of farm-to-table. The chickens were for eggs, the ducks for entertainment, the horses for riding, and the cattle for breeding.

Everything on the farm lived to a happy old age.

Knowing the seasons and cycles and sources wasn’t a conscious thing, it was just simply rhubarb or strawberry or apple time. We knew my Dad had to grow hay for the horses and that had a season all its own, too. Usually haying season fell on Mom’s birthday, so she’d spend the day cooking for 20 people. It was all part of the cycle.

We grew up throwing hay bales and bags of grain and it was hard work, but not as hard as the dairy farmers.

Those kids were at the barn twice a day, every day, in the barn long before we were awake.

Farming isn’t easy. Growing food takes a lot of research, patience, effort, and luck. One late spring or early fall frost and an entire crop is jeopardized.

Farmers don’t take things for granted. They know their livelihood relies heavily on finicky markets and persnickety weather. Sneaking in a hay harvest between raindrops was more wizardry than process. It was a time for celebration, too. My Mom’s cooking attracted a huge amount of help during haying season. Farmers feed cities. Moms feed crews.

Now that Darryl and I are happily grounded in Loyalist Country, the appreciation continues. Darryl was born on the Prairies and still wants to own 10 sections of Saskatchewan farmland when he grows up. In the meantime, we enjoy our jaunts through Northumberland, Hastings, and Prince Edward, checking out the harvest at farmstands along the way.

It is one of the many reasons we love this region.

Thyme Again Gardens is one of our favourite stops for tomato seedlings in the spring, and this year our first corn-on-the-cob came from Lakeside Farms in Wellington.

Campbell’s Orchards always has something unique, from Red Fife flour to Sharon Knight’s baking and preserves. It isn’t fall until we’ve stopped by the Belleville Farmers’ Market, and on the way home, we enjoy dropping into Coates Orchards to chat with Judy and Janet, get some Honey Crisp apples, and maybe cuddle a kitten or two.

Farmgate operators aren’t just making sales, they are putting their hearts into their work, often generation after generation. They are the farm-to-table connection for those of us without orchards and barns and fields. They keep food real and personal.

The world is going crazy. When I watch the news I don’t know if we’re on the brink of a cold war or a very hot one, but I do know whatever the future brings, I’m very blessed to have lived on a farm and from an early age experienced the delight of vegetable gardening. A carrot is at its best when pulled from the garden, washed at the old hand pump, and eaten, still warm from the soil.

Take your kids for a drive. Stop into a farm market and pet a pig, pick an apple, and talk to the people who grow the food you should put on your table.

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A Natural Discovery in Prince Edward County

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Article by Sharon Harrison Photography by Sharon Harrison and Ramesh Pooran As I stand some 20 feet back from the sandy shoreline, I see clear confirmation the lake level is easily several feet below that of just a few years ago. Desiccated moss clings to the boulders dotted around me. The shrivelled and broken web of faded, beige lace indicates water hasn’t touched these rocks in a long time.

The gently receding tide has left behind a saturated, almost swamp-like surface of wet sand on the wide, empty beach. Prince Edward County has a unique island setting, comfortably nestled off the shores of our great freshwater lake. Tucked away neatly in the western corner of the island, Huyck’s Point sits at the end of a long, dead-end

road. It is one of those hidden gems known only to locals, where dogs are walked undisturbed, and where people stroll amid stunning sunsets, knowing quiet solitude is guaranteed.

My chunky walking boots sink easily into the damp, soft sand beneath my feet. Alone on this deserted stretch of sandy beach, I

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notice what appear to be indentations upon its surface. I almost don’t see them at first, but there is no doubt the illusion before me is a sculpture carved into the sand, placed there as if pieces from a giant jigsaw puzzle. I wonder, was someone or something here before me, carving away for hours to create such magnificent pieces of artwork?

Standing in the weakening mid-November sunshine, a tiny breeze blows in from the west reminding me of the season. The chilly air, warmed only slightly by the fading sunlight, feels colder once I stand still. If someone were here, how did they carve such intricate designs?

And how long did it take them? I slowly came to the realization that as incredible as it was, the intangible marvel before me had been created by nature. How did this natural phenomenon happen, and how did these inscrutably mysterious images come to be?

I am spellbound.

The detail before me is extraordinary.

The sand carvings etched by the receding tide resemble long, thin inlets. I see the ornate root formation of a large tree, complete with a complex web of smaller, capillary roots. I look further, noting more tree-like patterns, but this time the mass of elongated, overlapping wavy lines depict bare tree branches. A labyrinthine network of channels crowds the canvas, twisting and mazelike as they converge over the sand bed. Farther along the beach, I can make out individual, textured, leaf-like patterns,

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accurately carved as if almost true to form. The design is meticulously detailed in some areas; in others the sand is perfectly smooth, depicting no particular form at all. Many of the sculptures are raised, sitting several inches above the sand base, giving the feeling of three-dimensional islands floating among a sea of perfect smoothness. Nearby, the rippled and shadowy sand takes on a darker pigment. The golden sand looks as if it has been smudged with a charcoal pencil, dirtying the landscape, capturing the artist’s work to its best effect. A sprinkling of broken shell fragments and tiny pebbles remain scattered among the works of art, just where the drifting tide left them. Some shells remain whole, making swirly decorations all of their own. It spoils the canvas a little, and I have the urge to pick them off one by one, to correct such carelessness.

Water did this. Wind, too. The constant movement of water scraping along everything in its path, as hypnotizing waves travel back and forth over the sands. The hand of the wind – direction and speed - plays a significant role, too in the construction of these beautiful and mysterious patterns.

Sand particles combed by the gentlest of breezes, shift and settle in the prevailing wind, taking on a variety of forms over many hours of time. Add in a collection of on-site implements, beach tools if you will, in the form of miniscule crushed shell fragments, micro pebbles, and a miscellany of grit and you have intricate patterns created in sand. It all works in combination, a perfect process of all the right things coming together at the same time. How exactly the delicate carving tools make it all happen, I don’t know for sure. I’m

quite baffled and the more I give thought to it, the more it seems unfathomable.

There is randomness to the enigma but also a precision. But how can something so random create something so unimaginably ethereal?

This is the stuff of fairy tales.

In an instant I am taken back to my early childhood of once upon a time stories, and fairies who lived at the bottom of the garden. As I walk among these sand treasures, each step carefully placed so as not to disturb the artwork beneath my feet, my mind transports me to a mythical Narnia-esque world far away from here.

The forms appear fragile and delicate and I am all too aware they are only fleeting temporary visitors, at least until the next tide washes it all away. I am in awe as my mind conjures up an enchanted underwater world, eerily abandoned by its people. Or at least it seems that way to me. Any second, I expect an ogre to jump out from behind a rock, or to see a fire-breathing dragon leap from its castle to chase me off. I listen hard for a sound or a whisper but there is nothing but an all-encompassing gentle silence.

Some of the impressions carved within the sands are reminiscent of a rugged Scottish coastline, where endless craggy bays and coves hug every inch of the landscape. Elsewhere, the edges of the sand patterns are rounded smooth, as if spooned out sections have been made by some

careful hand. Some look as if teeth marks have left an impression in the sandy surface, their edges visibly nibbled and gnawed. As I take a closer look, a small face appears, jutting out of the sand, reminding me of a gargoyle who may have once adorned an ancient stone building. The complexity and variety of what has been created here is astonishing.

With the mound of Nicholson Island silhouetted in the low setting sun, my beach walk at Huyck’s Point nears its end. The rapidly cooling air pushes me to head home but instead I stand here quite alone, wanting to leave, but drawn to stay. I know my journey will be over soon, and I know in a matter of hours these wonderful sculptures and patterns will disappear.

Forever. As if they had never existed.

As I reluctantly walk away, I glance back several times, not really wanting the pleasant reverie of this wondrous afternoon to end. I think about nature and what it has created here, and of what it is capable.

My newfound discovery and fascination of these naturally occurring tidal sand patterns will stay with me for while I’m sure.

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Thyme Again Gardens

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Article by Amy James Photography by Daniel Vaughan arrying Place, a small community northwest of Picton and south of Trenton, is named for its location as a historical portage between the Bay of Quinte and Weller’s Bay. The nine-mile stretch, portaged hundreds of years ago

by First Nations people, was an important place of demarcation in the journey – a forward divide.

The ancient portage continues to mark passage into Prince Edward County and continues to offer a way forward. A new type of homestead, Thyme Again Gardens, offers an authentic approach to food and farming, in line with First Nations principles of respect for the land. Thyme Again is a place where it is time again to portage an age-old philosophy as a future gateway for food production and consumption.

Following the dusty asphalt down Smokes Point Road brings weary road-trippers and local explorers face to face with Thyme Again Gardens. An organic farm and bed and breakfast, the red brick farmhouse and sprawling acres is an oasis from concrete condos and genetically modified life.

Modern paving and century old dirt begin the portage back, directly into the home and hearts of Lorraine Schmid and Lori Aselstine. Owning and operating an organic farm is simply a life decision, labour, and love.

Lorraine, a holistic nutritionist and farmer, has been passionate about organic farming for years. With a wide range of definitions, not all uses of the term organic are equitable. For example, organic monocropping or a monoculture may not allow food to be sprayed but the food is grown uniformly, and lack of diversity is not how nature functions.

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The farm is a living and integrated entity where nature does naturally what is needed.

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Lori also knows, “We need to protect what we have and not overproduce. We only produce what we can.” Rhubarb and beans are not in season all year long and asparagus can take up to three years before ready for harvest. Orders for pork, beef, lamb, chicken, and turkey are best placed in advance, as again, butchering season is

August to December. These limitations can be confusing to consumers unfamiliar with the cycles and seasons of organic farming but both Lori and Lorraine are committed to farming to the advantage of the earth rather than taking advantage. Regarding how the crops are laid out, Lori is quick to add, “Lorraine is the brains of the operation, knowing what to plant when and where…I just ride the tractor,” she laughs.

In truth, Lori does ride the tractor but also takes inventory and keeps the books in the farm stand. A marvelous open-air store with a fridge cooling eggs, a freezer of meat, and shelves of chutney, jam, and salsa operates on the honour system. On the longest counter at one end stands a large mason jar and what looks like an open guest book. “We cannot afford to pay someone to sit in the stand full-time, so we leave the jar for the money and the book for people to record what they purchased,” Lori states.

Upon inquiry she confirmed, “Yes, the numbers add up, we had a problem one time but the community responded and the lost money came in, otherwise we would have to close the store.”

With the prices clearly marked, casual shoppers are able to purchase what is available each day, from berries and fresh eggs to meats or products from other green community businesses. As participants in the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program, Lorraine and Lori also provide the seasonally available heirloom fruits and vegetables as well as heritage lamb, beef, pork, chicken, and turkey to members who own a share in the program and pay a certain amount at the beginning of each year. In return, each week the members receive what is in season. With one CSA in Toronto, Lori travels each Tuesday to bring the organic produce to Olive and Olives, where she has networked to set up shop. In Carrying Place, the second CSA is the farm stand operating on the honour system, where members cash in their dollar coupons for whatever is available, and where they can also purchase the exceptional products produced by Olive and Olives.

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Belleville’s Insulin Pioneer Recognized Article and Photography by Gerry Fraiberg

Bill Murtha with his Joslin Diabetes Center 50 year medal.

Chances are very few people, perhaps even those in Belleville’s downtown core, recognize James Collip’s name. The response is more predictably a puzzled look.

Dr. Collip was a lesser known but key member of the Canadian team of scientists who discovered insulin in 1922, a discovery that has since saved the lives of millions of people with Type 1 diabetes.

On June 19, 2014, Dr. Collip received posthumous recognition in his hometown of Belleville. The Ontario Heritage Trust unveiled a plaque commemorating the diabetes pioneer at the Belleville Public Library. This long overdue sign of appreciation is due to the efforts of the Dr. James B. Collip Recognition Committee, made up of Hastings County Historical Society, Heritage Belleville, the Prince Edward Hastings Branch of the Canadian Diabetes Association, and Dr. George Pearce of Belleville.

James Bertram Collip was born in Belleville in 1892. The Collip family lived on a market garden farm in Thurlow at what is now Airport Parkway near Elmwood Drive. They later moved to Albert Street. He graduated from Belleville High School in 1908 and at age 15 enrolled at Trinity College at the University of Toronto, earning his bachelor’s degree in 1912, a master’s degree the following year, and a PhD in 1916.

Dr. Collip began a 13-year post as a lecturer in biochemistry at the University of Alberta in 1915. Due to his expertise, Dr. Collip was invited in 1921 to join the team of Professor John J. R. MacLeod, Dr. Frederick G. Banting, and Dr. Charles H. Best at the University of Toronto to conduct experiments on the work of the pancreas. Within 44 days, Dr. Collip isolated the first insulin suitable for use on human beings. He wrote about the discovery in a letter on January 25, 1922 to Dr. John Tory at the University of Alberta.

“Imagine my delight when about midnight one day last week I discovered a way to get the active principle free of all the muck with which it seemed to be inseparably bound.”

In January 1922, the first insulin injection saved the life of 14-year-old Leonard Thompson. Diabetes was now a manageable condition rather than a death sentence. Dr. Collip’s discovery would make it possible for millions of people living with diabetes worldwide to lead healthy and productive lives.

Among the 100 or so people who gathered at Belleville Public Library for the plaque unveiling sat Bill Murtha.

First diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at age 17, the Brighton resident is now 68 and recently received a 50-year gold medal from the Joslin Diabetes Center, affiliated with Harvard Medical School.

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people what it means. He likens it to a long silent walk on a tightrope.

It was 1963 in Mitchell, Ontario, a small town near Stratford, and three months before grade 13 final exams at Mitchell District High School. It was a time when everything hinged on a three-hour exam.

Bill recalls he was completely exhausted, urinating frequently, drinking gallons and gallons of water, and losing weight dramatically.

“Bad, miserable, completely drained of energy,” is how Bill remembers feeling. “I couldn’t sit through a class without falling asleep.” He was diagnosed as having diabetes mellitus Type 1 and was told he was not

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Since the program began, it has awarded 4,334 50-year medals, including 293 in Canada. There are 76 recipients of the 75-year medal, five of whom are in Canada, and most recently an 80-year medal was presented to 90-year-old Spencer Wallace, Jr. of Fayetteville, New York. Dr. Collip’s discovery continues to impact diabetics and their families around the world.

Bill feels good about the recognition for successfully managing diabetes for more than 50 years, but says it is hard to tell

going back to school that spring and would have to repeat grade 13 in the fall.

His parents - Thomas John Murtha was a teacher and a writer, mother Veneda was a nurse - decided to take him away for the weekend before being admitted to Stratford General Hospital. His godmother gave him a silver dollar to buy a Blizzard at Dairy Queen, but the store was closed. While disappointed at the time, Bill now says it was probably the best thing that could have happened. If he’d had the sugar-laced frozen treat he likely would have developed diabetic ketoacidosis - a life threatening condition which occurs when the body cannot use sugar as a fuel source because there is insufficient insulin. Fat is used for fuel instead and when fat breaks down, the process produces a buildup of toxic acids (ketones) in the bloodstream.

The next day was the start of Bill’s twoweek stay at Stratford General Hospital to learn how to live with his newly diagnosed condition. He had to learn to give himself insulin injections, at first practising on an orange, and then giving a saline solution injection to a nurse. She was 23 and he was 16. Bill confides he fell madly in love with her.

They went for walks together as part of his exercise regimen, which made his hospital stay a more pleasant experience.

He spent a miserable summer of 1963, feeling sorry for himself and coming to grips with his recently diagnosed disease. For the next 15 years, he kept the condition a secret,

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When he returned to school in September 1963, his father told him to go as far as he could. He finished grade 13, and then went to the University of Western Ontario where he graduated with an Honours English degree in 1968. He moved to Brighton in 1970, taught at East Northumberland Secondary School, and became head of the English department within a few years.

By 1990, Bill realized his body was deteriorating. He developed diabetic retinopathy, a complication of diabetes which can lead to blindness. An unrelated spinal operation left him in a fair amount of pain. He still required two or three insulin injections daily and needed to spend more time taking care of himself. Bill left teaching on long-term disability and became a stayat-home father. His wife Judy was a nurse, and they had three young daughters. He says it was a hard 10 years until he actually retired.

In 2001, Bill went on an insulin pump, which he credits with saving his life. The

insulin pump continually drips insulin into the body. Long-term diabetics often become less sensitive to the changes going on in their body, and like many others, Bill has to test his blood 10 to 15 times a day yet it is still just a part of his life, not a controlling factor.

What keeps Bill Murtha going after all of these years of living with Type 1 diabetes?

“You need a passion for something that you want to get up in the morning and do. For me it’s family, photography, woodworking, and my music library,” he enthuses. Bill has been interested in photography for many years, and recently began creating stunning photographic paintings by manipulating digital images.

The music library is another story. In the 1990s after going on long-term disability, he drove around to thrift shops, spending hours going through record collections. Bill now has what he says - and his friends and family confirm - is the most fantastic record collection east of Toronto. He won’t say how many vinyl albums he has, but notes he once bought 2,000 records for $20. Before

radio stations went to digital downloads on servers, their record libraries in many cases paled in comparison to his.

His family, too, keeps him busy. Bill and Judy have been married for 42 years and have three girls - Kelly, Sarah, and Emily. All three are married, and the four grandchildren are frequent visitors.

Legally blind, Bill gave up driving.

Although he regrets the loss of independence, he realized he was a danger to himself and others. He lost his peripheral vision due to aggressive laser surgery for diabetic retinopathy 25 years ago but retains his centre vision.

Coronary artery bypass surgery in 2013 slowed Bill for a few weeks, and his full recovery was an unknown. Within a few months, however, he saw improvements in his day-to-day living compared to his pre-heart attack days. As a diabetic, healing is always unpredictable, and it was simply one more victory for Bill to cherish.

Speaking with Bill is akin to conversing with a social encyclopedia. He is a popular

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figure, remembered by more than two decades of students. If he didn’t have someone in his class, chances are his daughters were friends with their kids, or their grandchildren are friends. Perhaps Bill’s forced early retirement provided a chance to live a different life, a more social life, one where his outreach to others goes so very far beyond the classroom.

Also present at the plaque unveiling was 18-year-old Nick Ogden of Trenton, who graduated from St. Paul Catholic Secondary School in June. He had been diagnosed as

Type 1 diabetic seven years earlier, one week before his 11th birthday.

Immediately he began taking insulin injections five teams a day. No longer required to spend two weeks in hospital, it still took young Nick some time to learn to live with the disease. He says at first the strict schedule of when to take the needle was overwhelming.

For the first two years his mother came to his school every day at lunch to give him his insulin shot. Although his life changed drastically, Nick says he stayed open-minded

and adapted quickly to his new way of life. He says he’s glad he was diagnosed at a young age, as it made the whole new routine of dealing with the disease seem like a natural part of his life. His friends were very supportive and always asking questions about it, which made Nick feel even more comfortable talking about it.

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added stress. Instead, he is enrolled in the Broadcast Journalism program at Loyalist College. His grandfather, the late Don Ogden, was very active in the Trenton sports community and was sports director at CJTN from 1979 to 1984.

Nick has become an active member within the local diabetic community and wants to be an activist for kids with diabetes and speak on their behalf. He was invited to speak about his experience with the disease at the commemorative plaque unveiling. He would also like to work with children on maintaining a positive attitude while living with diabetes.

As for the future of diabetes treatment, Nick would like to see an artificial pancreas machine - similar to the insulin pump but taking it to the next step. “One day I see myself waking up to a machine telling me what my sugar levels are and how much insulin I have and then I’m off to start my day with only me changing the location of where the machine attaches to my body or filling up the insulin in the machine.” His imagined device would eliminate the need for manual insulin delivery and enable blood sugar levels to be checked without having to prick a finger, simulating a regular functioning pancreas.

At 18 Nick shares 68-year-old Bill Murtha’s positive outlook. He advises anyone newly diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes to stay positive about the whole experience. “Think of it as you were chosen

to have this disease for a reason. Maybe you will change the face of the disease, or help to find a cure, but you have this disease for the rest of your life so you might as well take care of it and enjoy being able to say hey, this makes me unique and I like it.”

the hospital where in 1963 Bill spent two weeks learning how to use the gift of insulin, discovered in part by the doctor from Belleville.

As both men watched the unveiling of Dr. Collip’s plaque, many of their thoughts

Nick adds diabetes is not a disease that controls his life anymore; it’s a disease controlled in his life.

Also in the audience at the plaque commemoration were Dr. Collip’s granddaughter Barbara Montgomery, her husband Hal, and their daughter Corinne.

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celebrates its h birthday t 0 23 Article by Lindi Pierce Photography by Daniel Vaughan As travellers leave the Glenora Ferry and resume the journey eastward along the Loyalist Parkway toward Kingston, they enter a serene landscape of modest cottages, secluded waterside homes, farm and forest, orchard and vineyard - a subtle change from the arts and culture hotspot that is Prince Edward County. The hamlet of Adolphustown zooms past, the mind already preparing for the attractions of the next points of interest along the way.

Similarly, should one be travelling westward along Highway 33 toward that same Glenora Ferry, a flashing sign announces 15-minute service and Adolphustown appears and disappears, a landmark in the pressure to catch the ferry.

Yet, for a person who approaches the hamlet with curiosity, the hints are there - two orange and blue historic site markers in close proximity, the black and white address signs denoting Loyalist citizens, the crisp red, blue, and white almostUnion Jack flags flapping here and there, and the sign at the top of an avenue of old trees leading to the shore announcing, “Family Camping since 1784.”

For tiny Adolphustown - a sleepy shady town without commercial lure, its present is its past, and the people who keep that past alive.

The United Empire Loyalist (UEL) story is the personal story of many of the families in the townships between Cataraqui and Brighton.

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the descendants of the people for whom the roads are named live on those roads today.

The UEL story is familiar to most. Families loyal to the British Crown became homeless refugees during and after the American Revolution, fleeing to safety in the Maritimes and the upper St. Lawrence. On June 16, 1784 a small party arrived in the wilderness here, awaiting land grants and the opportunity to rebuild their lives on British soil.

Ironically, in those early days, the Adolphus Reach did not divide as it does today. Settlement of the hastily surveyed townships (called towns) began in Kingston (First Town), pushed westward into Third Town (Fredericksburgh), and Fourth Town (Adolphustown), and further into Marysburgh (Fifth Town, in today’s Prince Edward County), beyond to the townships of Thurlow and Sidney (now Hastings County) and westward into Brighton. Names like Dorland, Clapp, Huff, and Trumpour were, and are, familiar on both shores.

Families stayed connected by water, or winter’s dependable ice.

St. Alban the Martyr UEL Memorial Church, a picturesque Gothic Revival Anglican church, sits on a hill above the road through Adolphustown.

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The church was designed by prominent Kingston architect Joseph Power at the request of Reverend R.S. Forneri as a lasting memorial to the Adolphustown Loyalists.

The cornerstone was laid on June 17, 1884.

With its round tower topped with open stonework and a conical roof, irregular massing, and steep roof the building resembles the medieval churches which inspired the Gothic Revival style. The interior of the church - massive open timberwork, stained glass windows, and the decorative tiles above the wainscoting conveys a truly ancient feeling, uncommon this side of the Atlantic.

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around the interior of the church. For decades, parishioners took the tiles somewhat for granted but as so often happens, a relative newcomer led the small but mighty congregation to see the treasure in the memorial tile frieze, and the need for restoration.

In 2008, St. Alban’s history committee chair Diane Berlet undertook to research the stories of the individuals memorialized on the tiles. She became fascinated by the

encaustic tiles, researching in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States and established that St. Alban’s tiles were indeed Minton encaustic tiles, extremely rare in North America. “No other North American installation of inlaid Minton memorial wall tiles such as the St. Alban frieze is known to exist,” Diane explains.

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grant, and in 2011 The Loyalist Tiles of St. Alban’s was published to raise awareness of this historic legacy and funds for needed tile restoration. At just the right time, a tile museum with craftsmen able to produce needed replacement tiles reopened in Ironbridge, England. Once again the angels intervened, and David Cotton, a young tile artisan from Kingston, undertook the restoration at an affordable rate.

St. Alban’s future is uncertain. Its ten to fifteen active parishioners and their popular rector, a retired Yorkshireman, carry on, but only the annual UEL Commemorative Service draws a large crowd.

On June 22, 2014, two of the connections with which this deep-rooted community is rife took place. Writer and historian Orland French took the pulpit and recounted his and wife Sylvia’s experiences as volunteer custodians at nearby Old Hay Bay Church (OHBC), and among the Loyalist Fife and Drums who piped the guests in that day was Christine Smith, the librarian at the UEL Heritage Centre just down the hill.

Ontario travellers are familiar with the ubiquitous blue A for Attraction signs along the roadways but it is uncommon to see one announcing a place dated 1792. OHBC, about five kilometres north of historic Loyalist Adolphustown has stood since that date, the accomplishment of early Methodist UEL settlers a short eight years after their landing in the wilderness. OHBC, a plain weathered clapboard New England style meeting house sits, “Open for your reverent

inspection” on the peaceful south shore of Hay Bay. The Ontario Heritage plaque outside tells the story of William Losee, an itinerant preacher - or circuit rider - who shepherded the first Methodist flock here and inspired the building of this meeting house - the first Methodist Chapel in Upper Canada. The church became obsolete in 1860, was used as a farm building, and was reacquired by awakening Methodist historians in 1910.

OHBC remains open to the public through the same dedication and hard work. The historic church receives a yearly grant from the Bay of Quinte Conference of the United Church of Canada, which covers insurance costs. All other funding for operation and maintenance of the aging structure is by donation.

The spot is serene and invites meditation it is also full of history board member Kathy Staples is eager to share. She has animated the simple space with displays and historic photos, a showcase of artifacts, and books for sale. Kathy explains the pull history exerts. “Locals maybe do not appreciate it, but people want to put their feet on greatgreat-great-grandfather’s land.” It’s about roots, identity, belonging.

Assisting Kathy in keeping the church open to hundreds of visitors from all over the world each year is a team of custodians who stay in the 1950s cottage on the property for a week at a time during the summers. When long-time summer hosts retired, the board advertised in the United

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This year’s mid-July custodians, a retired cleric and her husband, describe their enjoyment of a carefree cottage holiday, the light duties, and the stories of the many people who visit this place of pilgrimage.

At the St. Alban’s service, Orland French related the oft-told story of the grizzled fisherman who landed at the shore, stomped to the pulpit in his rubber boots and intoned in a booming voice, “Dear God, please see that there are fish in Hay Bay!” This past summer a new sign at the water’s edge invited passing boaters to the site. It brings to mind the earliest days of UEL settlement, when the waters of Hay Bay and the Adolphus Reach were the highway for residents and churchgoers. The tragic event of 1819 when 10 young church members drowned within sight of the church and their families lives in memory here. Plain markers in the churchyard opposite communicate the grief even now.

In this same churchyard stand the gravestones of early circuit rider William Losee and his wife, and a memorial to first generation of UEL settlers, Paul Huff, who donated the land for the chapel, and his brother Solomon.

An annual pilgrimage service takes place in August. Speakers such as Methodist historians, writers, and political figures attempt to fill the church, but it is unlikely to duplicate the zeal of the enormous pilgrimages of 1912 and 1962, which are recalled in church photos.

This August 24, the Honourable Peter Milliken occupied the lovingly recreated pulpit, the familiar hymns of Charles Wesley rang out over the bay, and a bench in the old cemetery was dedicated to long-time church board member and Methodist historian William Lamb.

In a project bringing the past one step closer to the present, in 2013 OHBC sponsored a dowsing project to map the location of a large number of early graves on the church property.

Cemeteries are important in this old place. Genealogists and folks hungry to know their family story, who feel disconnected from community in this modern world, find solace in the connections revealed in a gravestone’s aging inscription. One such site is Quaker Hill, an almost forgotten corner bypassed by a curve on South Shore Road. Here a fenced enclave shelters the preserved grave markers of UEL Quakers and an Ontario Heritage Trust (OHT) plaque remembers the congregation which built a first church here in the wilds in 1798.

The Adolphustown Fredericksburgh Heritage Association works diligently to maintain and expand cemetery records. Church cemeteries are still maintained, but many old family plots are getting lost or landlocked on private or industrial property. These records are carefully preserved, and eagerly shared, by the summer staff at the UEL Heritage Centre.

Next issue, Lindi Pierce takes CQL readers through more landmarks in the 230-year history of Adolphustown.

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“When we first walked up to the house and Paul Sabyan and Maria Cornacchia put looked in through the windows, it was really both to good use when they refurbished scary,” Paul noted with a bit of a laugh. “I their Huyck’s Point Road home in Prince mean, it was scary!”

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They looked at another property, but A total lack of knowledge about just how something brought them back to the old big the project would be came in handy, too. farmhouse and this time they took a tour Told by many people not to even try to through it with a real estate agent. Despite refurbish the 1840s Ontario farmhouse all of its deficiencies, when the couple first on the shores of Lake Ontario, the couple got a glimpse out the front doors at the view eventually chose to ignore all of the advice of Lake Ontario across the road, the “Sold” to tear it down and start from the ground up. sign could have gone up then.

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“We were looking for a property and this had the character of an old house, as well as a great lot with the house almost in the middle so the neighbours are far away, which makes it kind of nice,” Paul said. “And you can’t beat the view. It’s just so beautiful!”

Both Paul and Maria were taken with the house and the property and it just took a little while for each of them to admit it to the other. Once that little formality was out of the way, the house was theirs, and the project launched.

“We didn’t know anything,” Paul readily admitted. “If we knew what we were getting

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into, we might not have done this. We went into it totally blind but with a lot of faith, a lot of optimism because we did get a lot of criticism about it from a lot of different people. I think that made us more determined than ever to buy the place.

We liked the character of the house, the size of the rooms, and the potential. The living room was a drive shed and we took it apart and put it back together, insulated it, and made it a little more liveable than it was,” he said, letting a very dry sense of humour shine.

Indeed, the room is now decorated with

antique furniture and dominated by a sturdy fireplace featuring a large barn beam. The drive shed was dismantled by Loyalist Timber Framing from a Brighton-area farm and reassembled. It is now a spectacular addition to the old farmhouse which Paul suspects might even pre-date the 1840s.

“A lot of people think it might be earlier because when we were taking the house apart, there was different evidence of the progression of the house,” he stated. “We think it started out as a salt box house at the far end and then it kind of grew.”

Paul isn’t kidding when he says they took

apart the house. At one point, he recalled the house looking like it had burned down because they had stripped it to the bare bones.

They built several additions on the house to blend with the original structures and this unique approach melded modern with old in a surprisingly seamless way. Stepping from the old section of the house into an upstairs bedroom, three steps lead to a new bedroom featuring sloping ceilings and windows matching those elsewhere in the house.

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upper loft bedroom, with heated concrete floors in the new areas.

The kitchen, which Paul says was originally unusually small for a farmhouse, was moved into the middle addition and extends to the east. It features long, narrow windows supplying a magnificent view of the lake. A large island in the middle of the kitchen was made of surplus beams and wood from the house. A breakfast table came originally from Paul’s grandparents.

Still working in Toronto – Paul as a teacher and Maria as a hospital project manager – the couple blends easily with County United Empire Loyalist heritage.

Paul’s mother’s family left Ireland in the early 1800s and settled in Cherry Valley, and both his grandfather and great-grandfather were born and lived in Picton. His County roots run deep and Paul and Maria thought of looking for a house in the County immediately after their wedding.

Attempting to maintain that country farmhouse feel, the couple have a large harvest table in the dining room and a window seat is underway to so their daughter can admire the view. Original wood floors are refurbished and original wood beams are visible in the old section’s living room - a room where the ceiling was raised at one point in the house’s life.

“We tried to salvage a lot of the material,” Paul explained. Apart from the beams and flooring, the kitchen cupboards were

obtained at Habitat for Humanity, an old bath tub was reclaimed from a house in Wellington, light fixtures in the kitchen came from a church under demolition near London, Ontario, and their engineer/ architect Ernie Margetson supplied them with a couple of old doors.

One element Paul and Maria intentionally didn’t include is curtains. Most of the rooms are bright and airy and feature views of the property, surrounding terrain, or the lake. “Why block that view?” Paul asked rhetorically.

Paul and Maria praise the work of contractor Nick Kamink, a young carpenter just starting in the industry. “This was a big learning curve for him, too,” Paul

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acknowledged, although he feels that worked in their favour, ultimately.

“It was good to have him even though he thought some of our ideas were totally crazy because he would do them, he would follow through. We later found out a lot of contractors probably would not have been as accommodating, wanting instead to do things the way everybody else did them to save time and just to get it done. Nick was really good and he seemed to be able to do anything. I Photoshopped the fireplace and he made it even though he thought it was crazy,” Paul recalled.

Now known as PEMSLAND by the family, the name stems from the initials of four residents (Paul, Elizabeth, Mary, and Serena), a name which has nothing to do with Jane Austen.

A year after construction began, it is now finished and the couple love the result.

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“I have to say my wife is very happy here,” Paul stated. “She can’t say enough about the house and she just loves the way it turned out. One of the reasons we bought the house was because we could do what we wanted, despite the advice from many others to just tear it down and build new.

We weren’t moving into someone else’s vision; we had our own idea of what we wanted.”

Would they do it again? Paul dipped his head and laughed. “We couldn’t be prouder of what we accomplished, but knowing what we know now, probably not,” he admitted.

“It took a year with the drywall, plumbing, electrical, windows, roof, siding, painting, insulation, construction, concrete, and heating. It came in over budget, but we love it,” said a man who sounds like he has a much better concept of the project than when he started. Again, the humour comes in.

“We had no concept at the beginning,” he laughed with some irony showing. “We just had the sense it could be what we wanted, but getting there was another issue.”

What do the critics think now?

“Our neighbours love what we’ve done with it,” he said. “It’s funny, all those critics have come around to our side and they can’t actually remember being critical,” he laughed again, appreciating the journey, loving the house.

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Cape Vesey, Waupoos, and the County’s Eastern Excitement

Article by Veronica Leonard Photography by Daniel Vaughan Good things are happening in eastern Prince Edward County, with a resurgence of economic activity in its captivating reaches.

Whenever the sun shines, County roads 7 and 8 in North Marysburgh are busy with day-trippers, campers, motorcycle clubs, cyclists, and tour buses.

Neil Carbone, Prince Edward County’s Director of Community Development explained that for a number of years the focus has been on the Hillier area with its large cluster of wineries and other attractions but the interest is expanding to the east and southeast areas. He credits the earned publicity through favourable widespread media coverage, high quality products, visitor experiences, and numerous promotional events helping to attract

people who want to explore all the County has to offer.

“We are even seeing people from Niagara coming to check out our wineries, and once they have toured Hillier, they head over to the eastern side of the County,” said Neil.

“For an area to attract tourists, it has to have strong anchors. These are in place already in North Marysburgh with the Lake on the Mountain Resort, Waupoos Estate Winery, and County Cider which have all been expanding over recent years. The reopening of Fifth Town Artisan Cheese adds to the drawing power of the area.”

Although Fifth Town did not have the years of history the other three businesses enjoyed, the impact of its closure in

2012 was felt keenly by smaller entities in its vicinity and resulted in a complete shutdown of the sheep dairy business in the region.

According to the owners of the neighbouring Del-Gatto Estates Winery, traffic going to Fifth Town has resulted in a 25 per cent increase in business this year.

Visitation numbers are also up at the Rose House Museum and the newly opened Cape Winery.

Fifth Town Artisan Cheese Company’s new owners are the brother and sister team of Patricia and Hugo Bertozzi. Patricia says the response from other County businesses to the plant reopening has been very encouraging. Already their cheeses are used by several of the leading County restaurants

including Angeline’s The Hubb, Huff Winery, and Isaiah Tubbs Resort. Numerous wineries including Del-Gatto, Devil’s Wishbone, and Long Dog buy Fifth Town’s cheeses for paired tastings with their wines.

“We hope to collaborate with some of the wineries and 66 Gilead Distillery to use their product to wash cheeses and make exclusive signature products for them,” said Patricia, whose connection to the cheese industry is three generations deep.

Her grandfather and great uncle were cheese makers in Parma, Italy which is known for its signature ParmigianoReggiano cheese. When her father immigrated to Canada after the Second

World War he went into business importing specialty cheeses from Italy. Although Patricia was educated as an engineer, she took over her father’s business when he passed away suddenly.

Her knowledge of engineering as well as the cheese business has been invaluable in bringing Fifth Town back to life. It needed major infrastructure renovations including the heating and air conditioning system, interior modifications of the production areas, and installation of a new wastewater management system.

While waiting to get the facility ready for production, she sold her imported Italian artisan cheeses at the Fifth Town

retail store along with some of the previous Fifth Town stock well aged in cold storage.

By May 2014, she received approval to start processing some of the classic Fifth Town handcrafted cheeses including herbed chèvre, lemon fetish, Lost Lake, and Operetta brie-style cheeses as well as the harder washed-rind Cape Vesey. These are being currently being made with goat’s milk but she plans to experiment with water buffalo milk as well.

“I wish my father could have lived to see the family get back into cheese making,” Patricia shared.

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During Fifth Town’s shutdown, the other anchor businesses underwent major expansions. In 2012, the Chrétien family, who owned the Lake on the Mountain Resort for 22 years, bought property across the road from their inn, restaurant, and cottages on County Road 7. They now have more accommodations at The House Across the Road and a second bistro style restaurant in the historic Miller House, with a patio seating 40 and continually full of guests enjoying charcuterie platters and the magnificent view of Adolphus Reach overlooking the Glenora Ferry crossing.

Lake on the Mountain Resort is a strong supporter of the local food and beverage industry. They expanded their selection of craft ales from their on-site brew pub to more than 15 seasonal brews.

They also offer 60 Prince Edward County wines as well as local ciders from County Cider and Bergeron Estates. In addition to the gourmet foods made on-site they have a selection of Cressy Mustard products and fair trade coffee from County Roasters.

The Devils Wishbone Winery opened three years ago farther up County Road 7. Formerly a popular vineyard supplying grapes to County winemakers, the beautiful

old barn winery with its view of the bay gained a reputation for great wines from owner/winemaker Paul Gallagher.

According to his retail manager Jennifer Baldini, business has doubled every year since. Visitors come to enjoy their patio and are encouraged to picnic among the vines. Devil’s Wishbone wines are made in small batches and only sold on-site or at the Picton Farmers’ Market.

Waupoos Estate Winery, the first winery in Prince Edward County, was opened by Ed Neuser in 2001. Its 20-acre vineyard slopes from County Road 8 to the shores of Prince Edward Bay. Now in its fourth season under new ownership, Waupoos is redefining itself as a family friendly destination winery. The gazebo restaurant is renovated and the main winery now includes a chocolateria stocked with a variety of candy and homemade gelato. It has a large outdoor patio for major events including music concerts and its annual Elvis concert in August brings in upwards of 2,000 people. The property is fully licensed, allowing visitors enjoy a glass of wine while touring the vineyard or strolling down to their wharf on the bay.

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Both Waupoos Winery and Lake on the Mountain Resort do a booming business in weddings which brings new visitors to the area.

Christiane DaSilva of the Duke of Marysburgh Pub said part of the attraction of the area is that it has maintained its rural agricultural charm.

“The views of Prince Edward Bay on this side of Cape Vesey and across Adolphus Reach on the other side are really beautiful and people keep their properties so neat and attractive; it makes for a lovely country drive.

The U-Pick Blueberry Patch and Apple Dapple orchard bring in a lot of visitors when the fruit is in season and Waupoos Marina has boat traffic from as far away as Rochester. There is a second marina at Prinyers Cove near Cressy where there is a lot of new housing going up.”

County Cider - just up the road from Waupoos Winery - has its own drawing power. This prolific cidery produces more litres of alcohol per year than all

the wineries in the County combined. Its products are sold at the LCBO, and in bars and restaurants throughout Ontario, with 20 per cent of its product sold directly at the cidery. Their lunch patio seats up to 200 guests who can enjoy an al fresco meal and the spectacular view of Prince Edward Bay. Guests can walk through their orchards and see unique cider apples like Brown Snout, Dabinett, Tremlett’s Bitter, Binet Rouge, and Kingston Black.

Grant Howes explained, “We want people who come to the cidery to take back a great memory of the experience, which will influence their purchase in a bar or at the LCBO. It seems to be working; we are possibly the largest craft cidery in Canada.”

There is a strong sense of interdependence among the businesses of this area, and they regularly encourage their visitors to visit other places of interest in the area and use each other’s products where feasible.

Grant Howes along with Paul Gallagher of Devil’s Wishbone and Kyle Baldwin of Waupoos Winery all expressed the need for greater marketing of the area as a trail

perhaps even extending southward toward Sandbanks Park. They would like to bring in the four wineries of Long Dog, Exultet, Half Moon Bay, and Lighthall as well as Black River Cheese and the other seasonal businesses in the area.

Two other wineries - Bergeron Estates and 33 Vines just across Adolphus

Reach near Glenora Ferry - also consider themselves part of this potential trail, as their wines are part of the Prince Edward County Designated Viticultural Area.

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It is reasonable to expect to see blue whales in the deep, cold inshore waters of Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Blue whales – the largest of all existing animals and, at 170 tonnes, the heaviest animals to ever exist – even close to the shallow, warm waters of the Bay of Quinte? The answer is yes.

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Ten metres from the shore of the Bay of Quinte and 2,350 kilometres from where they left their former home – the Atlantic Ocean - lie the skeletal remains of two 26-metre long blue whales. On a sunny and cool August day, the faint smell of rotting flesh hinted to their presence before they came into view.

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Three 48-foot shipping containers full of whale skeletons sat in the lot, and on the gravel beside the containers were two five-metre-long blue whale jawbones, a small pile of decomposing organs, and a slightly bigger pile of baleen - the comb-like filter system inside the mouths of baleentype whales that allows them to extract the very small krill that are their basic food supply. All lying very quietly - six months removed from the onslaught of national media coverage that greeted their arrival on the shores of Newfoundland - just outside of Research Casting International Limited’s (RCIL) 45,000 square foot state-of-the-art production facility at 15 Dundas Street in Quinte West.

How do two blue whales end up on the shores of the Bay of Quinte? The simple answer is by truck and hard work.

As Peter May, the owner of RCIL explained, the whales started their voyage to Trenton in March 2014 when he received calls from the Royal Ontario

Museum (ROM) and Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN). The blue whales had been trapped in the ice and washed up on the shores of Trout River and Rocky Harbour – towns separated by approximately 60 kilometres – on the west coast of Newfoundland. The ROM and MUN saw these dead whales as opportunities to expand their collections.

In May 2014, a six-person RCIL crew arrived at Trout River. Their task? Bring the skeleton of a 26-metre-long blue whale to Quinte West. Over a two-andone-half week period, the crew arranged for a local fishing trawler to tow the whale carcass to Woody Point –midway between Trout River and Rocky Harbour – so it could be hauled out of the water. Using backhoes, winches, and flensing tools, the crew stripped the flesh, blubber, and organs from the carcass, arranged to have all the whale viscera trucked to a local landfill and then packed the skeletal remains into a shipping container for the trip to Quinte West.

In June 2014, another six-person RCIL crew arrived at Rocky Harbour and over a two-week period repeated the process to deliver a second blue whale to RCIL. Over the next couple of years, all of these skeletal remains will become two shiny whale skeletons designed to fascinate and inform people who visit the ROM and MUN. The first step in the process of converting a pile of whalebones into a high quality museum display involves composting the remains to remove any soft tissue still clinging to the skeletons.

According to Peter, this will involve filling the shipping containers with a combination of cow manure and sawdust so the skeletons can be cleaned without removing them from the containers. Once the composting stage has been completed, the skeletons will be degreased to remove all of the oils and fats embedded in them.

Next the whale vertebrae, fins, skull, and jaw bones will be reassembled, “Much like

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threading pearls on a string,” explained Peter. The pearls being huge pieces of the world’s largest living animal, the string being metal rods holding all those large pieces together. Peter estimates it will be at least a couple of years before the ROM and MUN receive their finished whale skeletons.

Why do two blue whales end up in Quinte West?

The answer lies in the trajectory of Peter’s life. Peter was born in 1955 in Oldham, Lancashire, England, the son of a gas appliance salesman. In 1964, Peter and his family - seeking nothing less than a better life – immigrated to Canada and settled in Hamilton.

In 1977, Peter graduated from the University of Guelph with a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts, majoring in sculpture. Studying sculpture was, “Just a natural progression,” simplified Peter. He had always built things as a kid and was enrolled in arts programs throughout junior and high school.

The same year he graduated, Peter was hired as a vertebrate paleontological technician by the ROM in Toronto, prior to which Peter had no idea about paleontology and the large animal bones that would become a big part of his life and the business of RCIL. Peter’s next stop in his paleontological career was the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, Alberta. From 1981 to 1986, he worked as a paleontological technician, directing the construction of skeletons for the museum and then maintaining the dinosaurs in the collection and managing the museum’s field program for the collection of dinosaurs. In 1986, Peter returned to the ROM as chief paleontological technician.

While working in Toronto at the ROM, Peter formed RCIL. By 1987, in addition to his work at the ROM, Peter had gathered up $1.3 million worth of private dinosaur exhibit construction contracts. He incorporated RCIL and opened its first production facility at the corner of Dupont and Bathurst Streets in Toronto.

Production requirements very quickly exceeded the space available at RCIL’s Toronto facilities, so Peter moved production to two locations in Oakville. Once again, requirements very quickly exceeded the space available in Oakville so RCIL moved to a 28,000 square foot facility in Beamsville. By 1991, what had started

as part-time job at RCIL had become a fulltime endeavour, so Peter resigned from his position at the ROM. By 2006, RCIL outgrew its Beamsville facility. Peter needed to find a bigger production facility at a good price. As good fortune would have it his wife, Terry Legault-May, had always dreamed of returning to eastern Ontario to be close to her family in the Perth, Prescott, and Brockville area.

Peter contacted Chris King of the Quinte Economic Development Commission and very quickly realized the vacant 45,000 square foot warehouse at 15 Dundas Street in Quinte West met all of RCIL’s requirements. By the end of 2006, RCIL was operating out of its current Quinte West facility.

When asked to sum up all that RCIL does, Peter stated, “Building custom exhibits for museums throughout the world.” One of the most striking pieces of equipment at RCIL is a five-axis router – a machine consisting of a large, vertically mounted electric motor driving a 70-centimetre-long router bit through blocks of polystyrene. The movements of the router bit are computer controlled and convert digital files into three-dimensional objects such as dinosaur vertebrae. When all of the vertebrae, jaw

and skull pieces of an animal, such as a dinosaur, have been carved by the fiveaxis router, the craftsmen of RCIL finish, paint, and string together all the parts to create the skeletal dinosaurs displayed at museums such as the ROM. The operation of the five-axis router and the work of the RCIL crews in recovering the blue whale skeletons from Newfoundland point to two of the three principal types of work performed by RCIL. First, constructing skeletal museum displays of large animals such as whales and dinosaurs by fabricating and then stringing together their bones and second, constructing skeletal museum displays of large animals by stringing together real bones gathered from the ocean or the earth. The third principal type of work performed by RCIL involves producing castings of surfaces such as the fossil cast of Mistaken Point on the southeastern tip of Newfoundland’s Avalon Peninsula – the site of the world’s oldest ecosystem. This casting, on display at the ROM, is also the largest fossil cast of its type in the world.

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Imagine a place that sells local produce, maple syrup, preserves, and baked goods.

Now imagine this place is set in beautiful Prince Edward County, just a few hundred yards from the glimmering waters of the Bay of Quinte. Add family fun activities like pick-your-own fruits and vegetables, wagon rides, a corn maze, and an annual Easter Egg Hunt.

This wonderful place exists just 10 minutes from Belleville on Rednersville Road. It is a local gem and favourite destination. It is Campbell’s Orchards.

Colin and Dianne Campbell have been running Campbell’s Orchards for more than three decades. With the help of their two children, Amelia and John, their apple orchard and farm market has expanded and thrived. Although Colin and Dianne seem like a natural fit for the farming life, it it was not their life plan.

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Colin’s father, John Murray Campbell, was a friendly, outgoing man with big ideas.

Some – his wife included – may even say Murray’s ideas were too lofty. In 1969, this hydro worker, much to the chagrin of his wife June, traded their new bungalow on the water for a run-down farm.

The farmhouse, more than 150 years old at the time, was left to the housekeeper of the previous owners. She was a single mother without the means to properly take care of the house and property, which she let fall apart, but Murray, who liked to rabbit hunt on the land not too far from his own Rednersville Road home, saw its potential.

“When they moved into the house it was a dump,” said Colin. “There were 27 cars on the property, there was no septic or water system, you couldn’t even see the bay, but my dad cleaned it up.”

June, who liked pretty things, was not happy. She wouldn’t even put her dishes in the cupboards for some time. Eventually, Murray’s retirement plan to run the farm soon became her objective as well.

Tragically, this plan was disrupted in 1979 when Murray and six friends rented a small airplane and flew to the plowing match in London, Ontario. They planned to return the same day, but the plane crashed just

north of Cobourg. John Murray Campbell, at age 47, was dead.

At the time, Colin was in his third year of the Agricultural Economics program at the University of Guelph. He had plans to work for the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) upon graduation. CIDA’s mandate was to support sustainable development in developing countries, which appealed to Colin, however Campbell’s Orchards was already in operation, and he knew he was needed.

He worked on the farm that summer and when he headed back to school in the fall, family friends Al and Brenda MacPherson helped June keep things running.

Colin returned to his studies and to his girlfriend, Dianne Beilby, who was in her final year of the University of Guelph’s Management Economics program. They had met in residence and had many business classes together.

“Colin would always look at the answers in the back of the math text books and then formulate the answers,” said Dianne. “I told him ‘you can’t do that!’ I dragged him through school,” she jokes.

“No! Just math,” disputes Colin.

Colin and Dianne got engaged in their final year at school and Dianne, who originally planned to become a stockbroker,

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moved to the farm with Colin when they married in 1982. They have been running Campbell’s Orchards ever since.

In 1989, their daughter Amelia was born followed by John in 1991. Running a business with two young children had its challenges, often requiring homemade innovations - like using an apple bin as a playpen.

No amount of homemade creativity, however, could help them through Dianne’s two bouts of colon cancer.

“At first, my problems were misdiagnosed as irritable bowel syndrome and, next thing I know, I’m told I have colon cancer,” said Dianne.

Surgery and chemotherapy eliminated the cancer, and continuing to live a healthy lifestyle for the past 20-plus years has helped stave off any further occurrences.

“My friends tease me because I have always been an earth muffin,” laughed Dianne, not quite enjoying the irony of always embracing a healthy diet and exercise and yet ending up with colon cancer. Still, she found a way to turn it into a positive.

Each spring, Campbell’s Orchards holds a fundraiser for the Canadian Cancer Society where the profits from its annual Easter Egg Hunt, including wagon rides, face painting, and hot apple cider sales, are

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donated. Over the past 25 years, they have donated more than $35,000.

“We love donating and doing things in the community,” said Dianne. “Our customers are our community so we try and give back as much as we can.”

Family life and farm operations ran smoothly for the next few years, until the Campbell family’s resolve was once again tested. On Christmas Eve in 1996, an electrical fire tore through the Campbell’s barn, destroying all of their

lesson about insurance. They didn’t have enough to cover the costs associated with rebuilding, “But we had nothing else,” said Colin. “We had to rebuild. We closed down over winter and we opened again for strawberry season in the spring.” A new wing was added for Campbell’s Tearoom and now houses the gift shop.

With 15 acres of apples, Campbell’s Orchards is by no means large, but because the Campbells retail everything they grow, they do well. They currently grow about

farm equipment. It was about 8 p.m. and all of the curtains in the family’s home were drawn as they were preparing to put the children to bed. A neighbour knocked on their door and informed them their barn was on fire.

The fire blazed its way to their store (where their children’s Christmas presents were hidden). Luckily, the Ameliasburgh Fire Department arrived quickly and extinguished the fire within a few hours by pumping water from the bay, saving a portion of the store.

The Campbells learned an important

25 varieties of apples, some new and progressive, others heritage.

“Being one of the first orchards to have the new varieties is the best way to be profitable,” said Colin. “We can charge a little more for apples you can’t get anywhere else, but then again, some new varieties haven’t made money or even lasted the winter.”

Dianne agreed being on the cutting edge with new varieties makes Campbell’s Orchards more marketable, but it is also fraught with risks. “Some varieties prove unsuitable for the climate, others aren’t

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greeted with enthusiasm by the customers, and regardless of how much research we do, Mother Nature is less than predictable, and our customers make the final decision through their purchases.”

The Campbells also have seven different varieties of pears, 25 peach trees, 100 sweet cherry trees, strawberries, raspberries, tomatoes, pumpkins, and many other vegetables. There is always a chance a harsh winter will destroy a particular crop, which is why diversification is so important.

“We lost some apple trees and peach trees this year and our cherries didn’t grow, but we did extremely well with our strawberries and raspberries,” said Dianne.

“It’s also always important to save. I’m a bit squirrely and always have something stashed away in case we have a bad year.”

Campbells had a devastating year in 2012, but not because of poor crop growth.

On September 10, Colin’s right-hand-man, Fausto Martinez-Izazaga, 38, was crushed when the support on a water tank gave out and the 10,000-pound tank landed on him.

Colin was right there beside him, trying everything possible to free Fausto but sadly, he passed away.

In the nearly 30 years Campbell’s Orchards had been running it had never had a major accident, so this was unfathomable. The entire farm and community mourned for Fausto and the Campbells set up a trust fund to raise money for his wife and kids in Mexico.

“We have had a lot of traumatic experiences, really,” said Dianne. “When you’re in it, you just do what you need to do to get through it. The next day is going to come and hopefully be better.”

The Campbells have high praise for all of their workers, migrant and Canadian alike. “To stay in retail you need to have good help,” said Dianne. “We all work so well together.”

Their children Amelia and John have also been a great help over the years. Although

Amelia works for a marketing and design firm in Belleville, she still helps during the busy fall season and takes care of the farm’s marketing, advertising, and social media. John was the groundskeeper until he joined the military and left for flight training in Moose Jaw. His Mom appreciates his stewardship of the property. “He keeps our grounds looking neat and trimmed, and he is always pushing us to be current whether it’s about replacing an old sign or a tired promotion.

If you are lucky he may be your tractor driver this Thanksgiving,” she smiled.

Other family members, equally familiar to visitors, are the four-legged greeters.

The Campbells lost Abby, their beloved Golden Retriever in 2013, and four-yearold Sophie now stands as the official canine ambassador, along with two ginger kittens Mac and Tosh.

Colin and Dianne pride themselves on making Campbell’s Orchards a fun place to visit. With a corn maze, wagon rides, playground, sandbox, pick-yourown opportunities, and an annual Easter Egg Hunt, they excel at entertainment farming. They also take every opportunity to educate the community – especially children – about food sources.

“We get so out of touch with the farm,”

said Dianne. “The trend has been for parents to bring their kids to the farm to see where their food comes from. With strawberries, for example, in grocery stores all year, no one really needs to know growing seasons.”

Throughout the fall, Campbell’s Orchards is fully booked four days a week

Colin has always been particularly interested in teaching people, hence his previous desire to work for CIDA, where they teach developing countries agricultural techniques. While that goal never came to fruition, both he and Dianne have enjoyed their life’s work at Campbell’s Orchards. When things haven’t gone

with groups of schoolchildren touring the farm. They take a wagon ride, learn about fruits and vegetables, go through the corn maze, and pick an apple. “They love it,” said Dianne.

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His most recent book, The Lazier Murder: Prince Edward County, 1884, recounts the crime that shook the County during the Barley Days and led to the infamous bungled double hanging at the County Jail.

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Robert and his wife Geraldine have a house in Prince Edward County where they spend the summer. Robert enjoys playing tennis and golf and is a regular theatre and opera goer. He made his own theatrical appearance as the scriptwriter and judge for the re-enactment of the Lazier murder trial staged at Picton’s Court House on July 11, 2014.

Name one universal rule of friendship.

Why do we sometimes crave chaos?

What is the best way to get licensed as an adult?

Unconditional loyalty - even when it takes the courage to tell your friend he or she is wrong.

Chaos helps us to escape our routine and to give us the feeling anything can happen. That can be very exhilarating but also very frightening but we need to be unsettled every once in a while.

In my case, acquiring a spouse, three kids, and a mortgage.

What are you going to do about growing old?

Try to accept it with dignity and grace and recognize every stage of life has advantages. As one ages one realizes the pressure is off - not to mention all those senior discounts.

What makes your heart stand still?

Seeing my child or grandchild’s first smile or step.

What recipe for a successful home life do you want to share?

A mixture of humour, tolerance, patience, and very healthy dose of mutual respect.

If you knew the truth, how would you reveal it?

I would probably write yet another book no one would read.

Name one secret you do not want to discover before you die?

I don’t want to know about any personal betrayals.

What is it that we need to understand about surrender?

It’s all about knowing when to surrender.

Sometimes one has to stand and fight for what is right and never give in. We have to be able to recognize when surrender is not only prudent but principled.

Why should we hang onto our illusions?

Illusions allow us to rise above the daily routine of life, to imagine we can make a better world, have new adventures, and achieve the things of which we dream.

What would your father make of you now?

I think he would be very proud of me but still wondering why I did not take his advice and return to Picton to practice law, play golf, and enjoy a little hunting and fishing.

How would you like to rewire your brain?

I would like to jump start the artistic and creative side of my unduly analytic and logical brain.

What is your favourite recipe for unhappiness?

Petty, negative thinking, looking for what’s wrong instead of what’s right.

How can we escape the trap line of our own obsessions?

By remaining open to new ideas and new experiences that shake us up and force us to re-examine our thinking and our lives.

What have you not got from your life so far that you hope to get?

The feeling of satisfaction I have finally arrived and it is time to rest on my laurels.

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