The Summerfolk Festival Lives On
Just as music and fashions have changed over the last 48 years, the iconic willow tree of Owen Sound’s Summerfolk Music and Crafts Festival has weathered high water and winter ice.
Just as music and fashions have changed over the last 48 years, the iconic willow tree of Owen Sound’s Summerfolk Music and Crafts Festival has weathered high water and winter ice.
To reach the lantern room of Cove Island Lighthouse, lightkeeper Jack Vaughan trudged up 101 stairs just as he had done for the last 13 years.
Back in the 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s, if you were driving the backroads of Bruce and Grey counties on the night before the fourth Saturday in April, you would be greeted by the glow of Coleman gas lanterns at almost every river or stream crossing.