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Valley Bike Share: A New Way to Get Around

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If you have noticed the shiny new bikes that sit in specially-designed stands in strategic locations around the Valley, you’re not alone. I was thrilled when I heard about these new bikes and entered a raffle at the Northampton street fair a month ago. I won a year’s pass and […]

Trailside: a Cozy Place to Hear Great Music

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The Trailside Music Cafe & Inn brings great musicians to an intimate venue where everyone gets a good look at the performers up on stage. Located about 25 minutes outside of Charlottetown in the town of Mount Stewart, it’s a sweet spot for anyone who loves good music and comfort food. […]

Island Summer Review: A Cracking Good Time

Island Summer Review

Sometimes jokes that seem to be insider-only can be awfully funny. We got a chance to steep ourselves in Prince Edward Island lore and inside jokes when we joined a packed house at the Harmony House Theater in Hunters River, about 25 minutes outside of Charlottetown PEI. It was a wonderful […]

Valley Pearl Oysters: Fullfilling a Lifelong Dream

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Jeff Noyes is a man with a dream. A shucker’s dream.  He is happy to say that he is doing exactly what he wants to do in life. After 15 years heading up his hometown’s oyster festival, he’s created an oyster tasting room and bar, in Tyne Valley, PEI. We […]

Prince Edward Island, Canada Awaits!

The last lobsters of the summer, enjoyed on the deck at the Compass Rose. No fishing for lobster will take place until November.

My next destination has eluded me for the many years I’ve been traveling during the summer up to Canada. This time I’ll be heading to Prince Edward Island, in the Canadian Maritimes.  Some of things I”ll be doing there include learning how the native Indians made drums, visiting a museum […]

Nathaniel Hartshorne’s Memorial: So Long, Pal

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Our father, Nathaniel Hartshorne, died on March 28, 2018, and we’ve been thinking about his memorial service ever since. Last weekend, we finally had the event we had been thinking about and planning for so carefully…and it was all a great success. The main reason we agonized over so many […]

Wendy Foxmyn, Deerfield’s Administrator, Shares Good News

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Things are happening in our little town.  There are a lot of moving parts, and the person who might know the most about them is our Town Administrator, Wendy Foxmyn. I sat down with Wendy last week in her town hall office to discuss these developments and other things about […]

Vorarlberg, Austria Photo Gallery

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Vorarlberg is the western-most state of Austria, bordered at the north by the Bodensee, or Lake Constance, as well as Switzerland to the west and Germany to the north.  It’s a land of gentle green hills covered with hay, striking Alpine peaks streaked with snow, and meadows filled with the […]

Hiking from Breakfast to Dessert in Bregenzerwald

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I met up yesterday with another local tourism official, Cornelia Kriegner, at my hotel, and we didn’t go out to her car, as I would expect. Instead, we waited for the local bus and rode it up a few miles past the village to a trailhead. Conny was taking me […]

Bregenzerwald, Austria: Whimsy and Beauty

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My first full day in Bregenzerwald was long and full of fascinating sites and an overwhelming number of alluring mountain vistas. Around every corner, another tidy home punctuated by red geraniums and stacks of narrow logs neatly tucked away came into view. Many of the people around here use these […]

Franz Fetz Has Seen It All in Bregenzerwald

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I had dinner at the fine restaurant at my hotel, the Gastof Hirschen Schwarzenberg, and I ordered the chef surprise. No idea what was going to be served, I left the four courses up to the chef. And a good choice it was! They set four forks in front of […]

Vorarlberg: Austria’s Mountainous West

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I’m having breakfast in the mountain village of Schwarzenberg, in the Vorarlberg region of Austria, the farthest west of Austria’s nine states, right near Switzerland.  At the top of the map is the Bodensee, which some call Lake Constance.   The region was formed in 1919, and this part of Austria […]

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