Arts & Culture
The Meaford Public Library will host 2025 CBC Nonfiction Prize shortlist contender and local author Jennifer McGuire on Tuesday, March 3 at 1 p.m., for the first of the Coffee House Reads series.
McGuire is a travel writer, essayist, and author of the memoir Nest: Letting Go from Italy, France, and Ireland in which she made good on a daydream. A promise to herself as she raised four boys on her own: “Someday Italy. Someday France. Someday, maybe even Ireland.”...
A largely forgotten chapter of Canadian history will be brought to light as the 50-minute documentary film We Lend A Hand: The Forgotten Story of Ontario Farmerettes screens in Clarksburg. The film has been selling out theatres across Ontario and will now be screened at the Marsh Street Centre (187 Marsh St., Clarksburg) on March 7.
Created by director/producer Colin Field and historical producer (and Exeter resident) Bonnie Sitter, the documentary tells the extraordinary story of 40,000 teenage girls who...
