None of these festivals, launches, lunches, concerts, fundraisers, or celebrations makes any money, but they are the reason many of us are here, and many more are on the way.

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  Karen Valihora

  Publisher

My favourite editorial this past year was about the history of tourism in the County. We called it, fancifully, “This Pleasured Isle, this Green and Storied Place,” (Aug. 10, 2023). We were trying to give a sense of summers long past. I asked Chris if we could do a Part II — more steamboats, more stories of picknicking in the grass, maybe some parasols.  “There isn’t any more,” he said. “After the steamboats, it’s all about the cars.”

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  Karen Valihora

  Publisher