Meet at the Archives in Glencoe at 10 a.m. These free, community-led walks invite people to explore their surroundings through history, shared spaces, and everyday lived experience. Together, we’ll walk, talk, and reflect on what makes our villages liveable, welcoming, and worth caring for.
Join local historian Ken Willis for a guided walk through Wardsville. This walking tour highlights the history of Main Street, sharing stores of the buildings, people and events that have shaped the village. Meet at 10 a.m. at the Wardsville Museum
Meet at 1030 a.m. – facilitated by Dunc Hodgson & Heather Jacobs. A walk exploring the Appin community and surrounding landscape: Meet at The Ekfrid Museum behind the community centre. This walk will invite conversation about: The story of Appin as a rural crossroads community. Key places of gathering, past and present. Connections between land, history, and community life.
Kendra shared with us some of the real-world inspirations woven into the book. The novel is dedicated to two living tortoises: Jonathan, aged 193 on Saint Helena Island — the same remote island where Napoleon spent his final years — and Fernanda, believed to be the last surviving Fernandina tortoise in the world.
Twenty-five members and guests gathered at the Glencoe Library for Kae Elgie's presentation on her book, This Land: the Story of Two Hundred Acres in Kent County, Ontario. Drawing from extensive research preserved by her ancestors and combined with her own deep dive into census and land records, archaeological findings, and historical texts, Elgie told the remarkable story of 10,000 years of food gathering and agricultural production on the 200-acre farm in Chatham-Kent where she grew up. Her