I’m learning to fly, but I ain’t got wings. …Tom Petty (1991) The grandkids were out last weekend and they brought their bikes – minus the training wheels. As I watched Dave run up...
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The story of Ontario is largely a story of small towns, and we have been fortunate (?) enough to live in three that are really trendy right now. They weren’t necessarily trendy when we moved...
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60 years ago when Danny & The Juniors were getting ready to record “At the Hop,” IBM was spinning their own brand of records. It was early days in the computer revolution. A...
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Like many fine Edwardian buildings in small town Ontario, Deseronto’s town hall started out as a bank. BMO had the building constructed in 1904 and occupied it until 1932 when the branch was a...
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The netbook (2007-2012) can probably trace its origins back to the Toshiba Libretto of the late 1990s but it was heavily influenced by the One Laptop Per Child project of the early 21st century....
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They were born in Victorian times. They were young over a century ago. They passed away in the 1960s. Nobody under the age of 60 is likely to remember them at all. They don’t...