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Archive for Category: "Detours"
Round the World Yacht Race
One year 13 countries 40,000 miles 10 ocean racing yachts 15 races One circumnavigation One champion team The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race is the longest and most gruelling ocean race in the world. Those who have participated say it’s a life-changer; a character multiplier; a physical, mental, emotional supercharger. This past December, High River’s Kevin Wiebe [...]
Peace Park
In 1932, a group of Rotarians from Alberta and Montana made history by convincing their respective national governments to unite Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta with Glacier National Park in Montana to create the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park. This blending of majestic lands, featuring the longest unguarded boundary on earth (5,000 miles) was originally [...]
The Airstream Trailer
EXPERIMENT – No. 2 The Silver Bullet More sleuthing than experimenting, Peter traces the life of one of these iconic camping units. By Peter Worden Contrary to what trailers are best known for doing (trailing), Airstreams have a weird way of hooking their owners as much as the other way around; and with good reason. [...]
What’s Old is NEWS again.
A century’s compendium of comparison in local newspapers. By Peter Worden “It may be of interest to husbands to know that the Paris dressmakers are to make fashionable gowns that button down the front.” — from The High River Times, December 1, 1910. It’s 101 years later and frankly I think we’re all still mystified [...]
