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Arlene Stafford-Wilson
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Perth, Ontario, Canada
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October 2013
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Recipes and Recollections: Treats and Tales from Our Mother's Kitchen
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2011
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Lanark County Kid
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2012
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Lanark County Classics - A Treasury of Tales from Another Time
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Lanark County Calendar
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2013
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Lanark County Calling: All Roads Lead Home
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2018
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Lanark County Collection: Winding Our Way Down Memory Lane
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2020
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Lanark County Chronicle
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2013
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Lanark County Connections - Memories Among the Maples
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2015
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Lanark County Comfort
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2021
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Lanark County Christmas
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2022
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Photos – Book Launch in Perth
It was the last official day of summer, September 21st, and the weather couldn’t have been better, with warm sunshine, clear skies, and many residents and visitors were strolling along the historic main street in Perth.
What a busy day! It was a wonderful turnout at The Book Nook in Perth, for the book launch of, “Lanark County Classrooms: Remembering Our School Days”. The day marked “an even dozen
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“She walks the same paths where her father walked, and her grandfather, and her great-grandfather before her. She passes by familiar trees, the towering silent witnesses to over two centuries of history. Many of these majestic woodland giants, like faithful old friends, proudly bear the telltale tap-marks, remnants of a multi-generational maple harvest.”
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“The powerful forces of nature, both kind and cruel, some nurturing, some destructive, live at the heart of any maple syrup operation.”
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“Warm familiar scents drift softly from the oven,
And imprint forever upon our hearts
That this is home
and that we are loved.”
― Lanark County Calendar
And imprint forever upon our hearts
That this is home
and that we are loved.”
― Lanark County Calendar
“The air was fresh and crisp and had a distinct smell which was a mixture of the dried leaves on the ground and the smoke from the chimneys and the sweet ripe apples that were still clinging onto the branches in the orchard behind the house.”
― Recipes and Recollections: Treats and Tales from Our Mother's Kitchen
― Recipes and Recollections: Treats and Tales from Our Mother's Kitchen
“We stepped a little quicker, laughed a little louder and chatted over the fences a little longer. We gathered bouquets of wildflowers, dined on fresh strawberries and began to ride our bikes up and down the Third Line again. We ran up grassy hills and rolled back down through the young clover, feeling light and giddy, free from our heavy boots and coats. There were trilliums to pick for Mother and tadpoles to catch and keep in a jar. Spring had come at last to Bathurst Township and was she ever worth the wait!”
― Lanark County Calendar
― Lanark County Calendar
“These elusive memories, appear out of nowhere like a portal to our past, from deep within the passages of our minds. They rise to the surface, stretching out their hands to guide us back to another time.....and we are young again, and it is Christmas.”
― Lanark County Christmas
― Lanark County Christmas
“Our memories - those thinly veiled fragments from a time long ago, those wisps and threads of a Christmas past arrive without warning, and beckon us back to earlier years like persistent waves lapping along the shores of a familiar lake.”
― Lanark County Christmas
― Lanark County Christmas
“Many say autumn is by far the most spectacular season in Lanark County. During these brief few weeks Mother Nature paints our landscape with her most vivid palette, colouring our trees with broad strokes of the richest crimsons, fiery oranges, and the sunniest yellows, leaving no doubt in anyone's mind that these sugar maples are the crown jewels of our forests.”
― Lanark County Comfort
― Lanark County Comfort
“Endless flocks of honking geese surged across cool September skies announcing to all below that Lanark County's warmest briefest season was coming to an end.”
― Lanark County Comfort
― Lanark County Comfort
“Autumn in the country advances in a predictable path, taking its place among the unyielding rhythms of the passing seasons. It follows the summer harvest, ushering in cooler nights, and shorter days, enveloping all of Lanark County in a spectacular riot of colour. Brilliant hues of yellow, orange and red exclaim, in no uncertain terms, that these are the trees where maple syrup legends are born.”
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