Audio Version Here. The laneway is narrow, a little rough and worn. It leads into a tidy mixed forest of maple, birch, and the odd pine. Mature, healthy, second growth forest minimally tended over generations by expert hands. Something you’d only notice if you were looking for it, and even…
Culture Department
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Meeting The Goddess
Audio Version Here. County Fence magazine has wanted an art editor from day one. Well here I am, biznatches! That’s right, Walter Liu is here to be your guide into the art world of Eastern Ontario. But there’s a problem, actually a few. I am a member of the internet…
Art & Culture
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Aliens
Audio Version Here If intelligent life capable of intergalactic space travel exists, then it seems likely they would avoid contact with us. At best they may observe us like researchers studying wolves in the arctic. Perhaps we have caught the scent, the odd glimpse, or even been put under long…
Art & Culture
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Poems Won’t Buy Beer
Audio Version Here Canadian poet Al Purdy once urinated on literary icon Margaret Atwood’s car. Poets often miss the limelight and Canadian poets doubly so on the world stage but Purdy was different – often cited as the first Canadian poet to be different. In one sense he could be…
Fence Profiles
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From The Archives: Camp Bethel, 1983
Audio Version Here Dear Readers: In light of our digitization program, Greg has asked that I find a piece from the archives. The following is an account of a trip that my intern and I took in 1983 and remains the most curious night of my life. Truth be told…
Napanee Correspondent
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Reason #1: Avril!!!
Audio Version Here Our municipal slogan is “Greater Napanee: Greater For Many Reasons.” And the number one reason is my girl Avril! Yay! In 2002 she released her first album ‘Let Go’ at the age of just 17! She went on to be a global smash success, putting Greater Napanee…
Travel & Tourism
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The Original Fence
Audio Version Here I attended what I thought was my last bush party a decade and a half ago. Back then I was home for the summer after my first year of university, which is also the last I spent any time here I wouldn’t call a visit. This time…
Fence Profiles
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Mister X
Audio Version Here It has not been since October of 1983 that someone has so captured the interest of the county architectural society’s boundary subcommittee. In those days it was the sheer creativity of Marvin Whitney’s dry motorcycle-frame wall separating his horse shoe arena from the hot tub viewing platform….
Coming Soon: January 2nd
Greetings from an undisclosed location deep in the wilderness of Eastern Ontario. My name is Gregaro McKool and I am the literary editor of County Fence Bi-Annual magazine, Eastern Ontario’s oldest and most prestigious boundary and fencing publication. We’ve had a few false starts here on the digitization program, it’s…