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Tag: The Arts
The Art of Gardening by Cynthia Reyes
I enjoyed my high school art classes well enough. Then one day my teacher looked over my shoulder at the drawing I was creating and asked: “Cynthia, don’t you think you are a bit too old to be drawing stick figures?” Everyone laughed. I was mortified. I loved drawing stick figures, loved them so much…
Meet the Faces behind NFOTA: Felicity Sidnell Reid
I am a writer and poet who has lived in Northumberland for twenty-five years. I believe it’s the perfect place to find solitude when desired, but also to join a strong artistic community and to collaborate with others in making and promoting the arts in this area. Why do you believe in the Northumberland Festival…
Meet the Faces behind NFOTA: Gwynn Scheltema
Gwynn Scheltema came to Canada in 1982, following the civil war in Zimbabwe, with her husband, 3 small children under 9, no jobs and $1000. Now she is retired, living peacefully in her lakeside home on Lake Seymour in Trent River. She spent 20 odd years as an accountant and then switched to writing and…