The Features

Barry Slater’s curious nature is helping a Toronto curling club rediscover its past.

Richard Kelly Kemick wasn’t sure why he wanted to spend an entire summer in the Alberta badlands acting in a play about the death of Jesus Christ. In this excerpt from a work-in-progress, the Christian-turned-agnostic discovers he’s not the only one with questions.

Visitors to Jasper, Alberta, still love the town’s namesake host, seventy years after his first appearance.

Nothing says summer like a trayful of hard-boiled eggs covered in salad dressing and cornflakes.

In January, 1968, eleven black students integrated Mount Greenwood Elementary School, on Chicago’s Southwest Side. In this excerpt from a memoir of her family’s civil-rights activities, Terry Murray, a white Mount Greenwood teen at the time, recalls the turmoil of the anti-integration protests that followed.

The Short Stack series.

Three new reference works.

Expo 67’s life-shaping influence.

Letting go of the Centreville carousel.

Ten Foot Henry’s tall tale.