Wildflowers – Meghan Ward

Mary Schäffer Warren (1861 – 1939) was 43 years old and recently widowed when she bucked Victorian-era conventions and reinvented herself as a mountain explorer, writer, and photographer. Over a century later, outdoor writer and historian Meghan J. Ward is entering her forties with new questions about her identity and her relationship with adventure and the natural world. …

Fort Wellington National Historic Site Is Now Open for the 2021 Summer Visitor Season

PRESCOTT, ON, June 29, 2021 /CNW/ – National historic sites, national parks and national marine conservation areas offer Canadians places to enjoy the mental and physical benefits of being outdoors and opportunities to discover history, while respecting the guidance of public health experts. On June 25, Fort Wellington National Historic Site fully reopened the grounds of the fort and …

Rembrance

On the sacrifices of a few for the good of many. Regimental #633290 Howard Fawcett, grandfather on my mom’s side fought with the 2nd Canadian Battalion enlisting on January 24th, 1916 and sailed out of Halifax on October 25th on the S.S. Mauretania as a member of the 154th (S.D&G Highlanders) Battalion. On June 30th, …

Old Orchard Beach

Is an old tourism town situated on Saco Bay on the Atlantic. Still a popular summer beach destination I decided to visit well after summer had ended. The town was mostly deserted with the majority many tourist-oriented businesses, including clam shacks and T-shirt shops boarded up for the season. The wooden pier on the beach containing many …

Cape Vincent

Cape Vincent, New York a small town at the point where Lake Ontario and the waters of the Great Lakes squeeze into the St. Lawrence River on it’s way to the Atlantic. A quaint, deeply historic town with a beautiful lighthouse and an annual gathering of the Kingston Outdoor Adventure Club. The Lighthouse, or at …

Rogers Pass

This one captures, to me, captures both the wonder and danger of winter travel in the mountains of British Columbia – the magnificence of the setting sun around the corner and the first hints of the storm that’s about to hit. I hear those two words together – Rogers Pass – and I automatically think …

A Tree Named Joshua

By the mid-19th century, Mormon immigrants had made their way across the Colorado River. Legend has it that these pioneers named the tree after the biblical figure, Joshua, seeing the limbs of the tree as outstretched in supplication, guiding the travelers westward.  the National Park Service Amazingly enough when you’re driving along or hiking in …