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Page THE HERALD Wednesday January ISM Arts and Ideas Winter in Canada a pleasurable season I love winter and I remember with particular pleasure our first winter in Canada the winter of We came to Canada in the sum mer and moved to a farm in Nor thumberland County at the end of July The farmer I worked for wasnt a healthy man and very soon he left the work on the farm to me We lived in a shabby but beautiful old house high up on a hill Today it would be called a heritage house It had classical proportions and large windows and the rain and wind of many years had taken off all the paint it had been covered with once and left it a silvery grey It had six rooms and a kitchen a few pieces of furniture no bathroom and no electric light From its windows we had a breathtaking view over the tin dulating fields between Dartford and Hastings Our first purchase for this house was a huge iron kit chen stove ancient already 36 years old with a water tank that could heat six pails of water We paid for the treasure The main farm was down tre hill and over a road in a pro tected spot sheltered from the north wind by a dense grove of trees We up on the hill however had to get used to almost constant winds that rattled the dry old windows just enough to make go ing to sleep a bit of an act of will The night Hurricane Hazel swept over us we feared the glass was going to shatter and we hud died with our children in the kit chen expecting the roof to fly away at any moment The neighboring farmers adopted us newcomers at once It was the kind of neighborhood where life was lived in unison The farmers helped each other during harvest time and every week there was a party somewhere for grown ups and children alike Before we realized it winter had arrived In my memory we woke up one morning to find the hills blanketed with snow The farmers located on sideroads had to deliver their milk with crude horsedrawn sleighs to the main road which was the only road that got plowed A heavenly silence fell over the countryside The voices of children toboganning somewhere down a hill could be heard for miles To visit a neighbor we walked across the snowcovered fields deeply inhaling the crisp winter air that filled our bodies with joy How I loved the warm barn at milking time with the gentle cows tucking away huge mountains of hay and sour silage A few days before Christmas I walked to a far away cedar swamp to cut a Christmas tree We couldnt find the right candles in any of the stores in nearby Warkworth and the ones we got dripped so continuously that after one day only the tree was covered in wax Since we had no other decorations at that time we liked this not-planned- for- Fashions For The Young At Heart MAIN ST GEORGETOWN Actus From Knot Chardi 8732851 Mm w Acton John Sommer THE ARTS decoration very much The long period from Christmas until April when we were almost cut off from the out side world seems to have been in retrospect a magical time There were these little pockets of life a barn with animals a house with a family At night when I walked home from the evening chores I saw the faint lights from these dwell ings The stars above me glit tered like diamonds by com parison One of the upstairs bedrooms in our house stored what seemed to be a thousand old issues of the magazine Saturday Evening Post We brought them all down to the living room and they became our introduction to the new continent that was now our home The children never tired of the pictures in the magazines and pinned their favorite covers on the walls To my wife and I the short stories were just the right material to practice our shaky English on Sometimes parcels with books from Germany arrived We never ran out of reading matter On very cold nights we gathered around the iron stove in the kitchen On nights not quite so cold we sat at the large table in the living room The woodshed was filled with chopped wood The heat from the kitchen stove came in a pipe through the wall into the living 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