Author Archives: James Joyce

Every year, the Dunvegan Recreation Association holds an open business meeting to review the past season and discuss the year ahead. However, in a classic example of the carrot and stick approach, these get-togethers always start with an old-fashioned potluck ... Read more »

In this slow, post-Festivus period, I thought I’d spend a few more column inches looking backwards in time to Dunvegan Decembers a century or so ago. While reading the Dunvegan column the December 2, 1898 issue of the Glengarry News, ... Read more »

By now, readers may be growing weary of hearing of the DRA’s Music & Mayhem Christmas Revue, and I promise this will be my last kick at the can… until next year. However, I thought everyone should know that the ... Read more »

For me, the strongest memories of the Great Ice Storm of 1998 are the sounds with which I associate it. The relentless tip-tap of the freezing raindrops… the crackling cries of pain from the trees in our back bush as ... Read more »