Granby, QC

It’s not a terrible town, I just chose a terrible day to go – I kept telling myself. Granby is in the middle of Montreal and Sherbrooke. Its majestic fountains were dry, the streets were quiet, and lollipop ladies only Read more

Jay Johnson

The Haskell Free Library and Opera straddles the Canada-US border at Stanstead, Quebec. When the border closed, Canadian patrons couldn’t access the main door in Vermont, so a volunteer delivers books to communities in Quebec.

Coaticook, QC

Almost halfway between Stanstead on the Canada-US border and Sherbrooke, Coaticook is a typical sleepy town with the rustic charm of the days of the horse and buggy. The landscape resembles that of southeastern French pre-Alps with the isolation of Read more

Mono, ON

The township of Mono is a trapezoid-shaped administrative division in Dufferin County about 40 km northwest of Toronto. If you zoom in on Mono in Google Maps you’ll quickly realize that it has no significant population clusters. The nearest town, Read more

Seattle, WA

I used to have a few friends that lived in Seattle, but by the time I actually got to visit Seattle they’d already moved out to nicer towns with less construction, fewer crazy people, and safer roads. There’s really not Read more