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Hailing from Plum Coulee, Manitoba (Near Altona), Rosemary Siemens lights up the world stage with her performing partner Roy Tan. She holds a masters degree

It’s a story that was sensational in the 1840’s, and which held its allure for nearly two centuries.  Since the wrecks of the Erebus and

    Something reminded me today of a Saskatchewan photographer originally from Cudworth. When we lived around Cudworth for a short time in the mid

In this video, I summarize my findings on my last violin project, the birdseye maple.  As I continue to learn more about luthiery, the next

With fewer than a handful of functioning sod houses in existence, this would definitely be a National Historic Site worth visiting.  In 1911, a carpenter

H/T Brian Edwards Apparently early stage of dementia has begun, as I didn’t remember doing a previous blog post about Danceland.  It’s really, good, though.