Author Archives: James Joyce

Although Americans commonly give credit to Benjamin Franklin for the invention of DST or Daylight Savings Time, it was actually a New Zealander — entomologist George Hudson — who, in 1895, first proposed the concept of DST. The next two ‘Summer Time’ firsts ... Read more »

After submitting last week’s item on the tragic 1949 Stewart’s Glen air crash in which Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Siple and their five children perished, I realized that two regular contributors to the column were residing in the Dunvegan area ... Read more »

On Sunday evening, February 13th, 1949, Wallace Siple and his wife Irene and five children were hurrying home to Beaconsfield, Quebec after visiting his parents in Norwich, Ontario. Norwich is east of London, just north of the snow-covered tobacco fields ... Read more »

Butter. It’s one of those simple things that make life worth living. Along with its kinfolk — milk, cream, eggs and cheese — it’s been one of the foundations of farming life in the Dunvegan area almost since the day ... Read more »