Ashley’s Candles
Ashley Dellaire began experimenting with candle making last year around Christmas time. As a licensed aromatherapist and aesthetician, she wanted to make a product that was healthy and natural and so she began crafting candles from both beeswax and soy wax. Paraffin wax candles may look beautiful and...
Proof of the Existence of God
Some years back, my wonderful Uncle Kenneth Lindsay, who was a professor of Art History at SUNY in Binghamton, New York, sent me this hilarious article. I don’t know where it originated…but it is just too darn funny not to share with everyone! Stephanie Kelley Here’s the definitive...
Institutional Education?
“Education? We don’t want thinkers! We want workers!” So said John D. Rockefeller, one of the most prominent of the Robber Barons as he explained what he wanted from the school system around the turn of the 20th century. And our North American Educational System has been...
The Garlic Garden
I don’t know about you, but I’m one of those people who thinks that garlic is one of the four main food groups (along with anchovies, olive oil & capers!) and I get positively twitchy when I don’t have at least 3 heads of the stuff in my home...
The Soul of a Home
The tragedy of the Perth-Andover Flood of 2012 continues to unfold and traumatize as our beautiful and historic old homes are demolished and wiped off the pages of history due to flood damage. We’ve had a number of readers tell us they wanted to see stories about these...
Local Gardener Creates Eden
A couple of weeks ago I happened to pass by a yard on a back street in Perth-Andover that was bursting with flowers and foliage of all sorts….it had an almost tropical look to it, something we don’t see too often up here in this northern clime. I...
A New Home…
The village of Perth-Andover is losing some of her grandest old homes due to flood damage. What will be built to replace these homes? Most modern construction methods do not make stuff to last in our make, break and throw away society. Indeed, our current consumerist driven economy needs...
Fermented Foods & Our Living Bodies
Just like the world is a living entity covered with living creatures who all have a purpose and must function together, our bodies are universes unto themselves as well. Most people don’t like to think about it too much, but we aren’t alone in our bodies…our system works...
Hosta Art
In the last issue of the Blackfly Gazette we ran a brief story about the Underground Railroad into New Brunswick. I had no idea that fugitives from slavers in the United States had made the terrifying flight to freedom through little Fort Fairfield and into our province. In...
The Mathematical Formula that adds up to Success!
This amusing if somewhat naughty bon mot was sent to us by one of our readers. We debated whether or not to include it but then figured that we’d be depriving you of a good chuckle if we left it out. We decided to utilize asterisks to hide...