The Rural Voice, 1994-12, Page 36SPRUCEDALE AGROMART
HANOVER
519-364-4070
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At this holiday season, it is time to say
'hank you and to egress to our
customers, old and new, best wishes
for a Merry Christmas season and a
successful New year
— from the management andstaff at
Spnuedale 9lgromart.
TARA
519-934-2340
"Serving the farmers of Grey and Bruce for over 20 years"
At this holiday season
it is time to say
Thank you and to
express to our
customers
old and new
warm
Season's
Greetings
from
Ron, Betty,
Paul and Dianne
K.M.M. FARM DRAINAGE
WALTON 887-6428
32 THE RURAL VOICE
We left the little group and went
on to explore what to us was a new
section of the Maitland Trail. We
came to a place where the bank was
clear of trees; sticking out of the
steep slope could be seen big chunks
of conglomerate rock, with some
chunks slidden into the river. My
husband knows of other places in the
valley where this conglomerate
occurs. He thinks it is the remains of
the bed of a river that flowed in the
warm climate that preceded the last
ice age — preceded the Wisconsin
glaciation. He calls it the Interglacial
Maitland, but says he doesn't really
know — field work should be done,
and so on.
I seem to have been studying the
Maitland River all my life in one way
or another, and there seems to be no
end to what can be known about it.
Interglacial Maitland? I'm ready to
know about it. Pre -glacial Maitland —
a million years ago? Maybe so. The
Maitland just after the Ice Age,
beginning its evolution to what it is
now? By all means. The Maitland of
the future, the near future? One thing
is certain: it must be protected in the
present or it will be a sewer rather
than a river. But we don't protect
what we don't know.
From the Menesetung Bridge
people see a piece of homeland
they can know easily and easily
love, a river in a valley, a valley in
the rolling rural land: a landscape
which is the face of this Earth we live
upon. On the Maitland Trail you are
within the landscape, seeing it as
ground beneath your feet, occupied
by plants and trees, by wildlife from
butterflies to groundhogs to you
yourself treading the path on which
there are the footprints of deer.
Openings in the trees give a wider
view and set you and the river and the
groundhogs and the butterflies and
the trees and plants and footprints
into the broader landscape — things on
the face of the Earth, large and small,
working together and working with
the Earth itself, with various crucial
dependencies on each other. When
enough people, aided by a Maitland
Trail or a Menesetung Bridge, have
had these feelings, have seen the
landscape and themselves in it, there
will be a strong shield to protect the
river, this outflow of healing waters.0