Miramichi River Valley Tourism (MRVT)has been encouraging uniform signage in our communities for the past year. Boiestown was the first to put up their sign, that proudly states “Boiestown, Gateway to the Miramichi River Valley”, followed by Doaktown with “Doaktown, Heart of the Miramichi River Valley”, and this month the Village of Blackville has put…

“Rescue our Hospital, Resuscitate our Future” Well we survived the Great Hospital Protest of 2004, and man was it ever a protest! In case you have been in hibernation for the past few weeks, an estimated 1,200 people from the Miramichi Region put their diversity aside and shouted loud and clear (literally) at the New…

What a beautiful day in Miramichi! I’m sitting here at the Miratech building with the door wide open listening to birds singing in the summer. The sun is shining, there’s a lovely cool breeze, I’m wearing my Mighty Miramichi.com sweatshirt and have fresh fiddleheads in my lunch bag. What more could you ask for? Giv'er…

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Getting back to the Laughing Bear Lodge . . . you know, the novel we’ve been working on together . . . Andrea suggested it might go more quickly (and could even be more interesting) if we wrote it by sentences rather than chapters. And I think that’s a plan, certainly worth trying. Could be…

A couple of weekends ago while I was at the Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick Annual General Meeting, the rest of the Mighty Crew were in Moncton for the Lifestyle Show at the coliseum. Here are a few pictures Stacy sent me to post. People filled out ballots at the Mighty Community booth to win…

Stacy and I got a jump on our tourist activities of the summer and took a road trip to Moncton on the weekend. This is a great shot of downtown on Main Street. You can see the famous Capitol Theatre on the left. The reason for our rather spontaneous departure for the city lights of…

WFNB AGM Weekend – Saturday Morning The alarm sang at 6:30am. I turned it off, sprang out of bed and raised the blind to look outside. What a beautiful morning! This would NEVER happen at home. The snooze button is my best friend, but I couldn’t risk missing anything. And besides, I really didn’t feel…

WFNB AGM Weekend – Friday Something very magical happens when you gather a group of artistic minds together for an event or conference. It’s just so intense — you never know what might happen. What a fantastic weekend I had at the Writers’ Federation Annual General Meeting! So much fun! So many new friends! It…

It’s that dreaded time of year again . . . No, I’m not talking about the rain . . . Or the fog . . . Or all the mud being tracked through the house . . . I’m talking about rummage. Yes, I’ve just got the word to clean out my closet and make…

A new issue of Bread ‘n Molasses hit the net today with lots of interesting news and helpful tidbits. I’ve been trying to keep the issues small and manageable but it’s nearly impossible with all the great stuff people send me. We’ve come a long way in the past year. In the beginning I had…

I was just updating our Currently Reading list and noticed the book I’m reading, Crow Lake, is a selection from the Today Show Book Club. That’s a coincidence that’s been happening an awful lot, it seems. I don’t watch the Today Show, don’t follow any of those TV show book clubs, but I do predominantly…

Miramichi and most of New Brunswick woke up to a beautiful winter scene this morning. Throughout the day it snowed, rained, hailed, and now I see some big fluffy flakes falling again! Apparently we used to get big storms in April all the time…and here I was all ready for spring and looking forward to…