Our fearless editor-in-chief, Jules Octavian, reflects on a life well-lived, the spaces in-between, and planting trees without expecting shade.
Category: From the Editor
Art & Culture
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Gentrification
Audio Version Here. The greying privacy fence behind Brenda Hogg’s white aluminum-sided wartime home may look like nearly every other house on the street but what lays behind is an artist, or so our art editor Walter Liu tells me after the dust up at the gallery the other week….
Fence Profiles
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The Haunting of Ginnie Cook
Audio Version Here There’s much more to the roads of rural Ontario than meets the eye. What appears to be a post-war highway project may have a history dating back to the ice age and initially have more to do with cycling than the automobile. But you’re not here for…
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…
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…
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…