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…in the meantime, I haven’t told anyone about your determination to farm for a living. There’s no sense ruining your reputation over this thing. I’ve just told them you’re being treated for a drinking problem.”

- Alf Harrison (Walt’s partner at the firm) - Letter from Wingfield Farm 1985

Walt: “What does a Century Farm sign mean to you people anyway?” The Squire: “A hundred years without a single decent offer for your land!”

- Wingfield’s Progress 1987

On an hourly basis I make less than a parking meter.”

Walt Wingfield - Wingfield’s Folly 1989

When you pick the chicks up at the hatchery, put a flat of them on the seat of the truck beside you and fire one at every mailbox you see on the way home.”

- Freddy - Wingfield Unbound 1996

Maggie came with a complete set of Blue Willow china, a spool bed that all of her ancestors have died in since 1870, six more sheep…and of course, her nephews, Willy and Dave. Unfortunately, the old custom (about dowries) carries a strict rule about exchanges and refunds.

Wingfield On Ice 2000

If the fence needs painting, give me a paintbrush and I’ll paint the fence. But don’t ask me to sit through a meeting of the Fair Board and talk all night about how we’re going to paint the fence. It puts me out of temper.”

Maggie - Wingfield’s Inferno 2004

Reaching Larkspur under any conditions was a difficult and hazardous journey and could take many days. But building a road made the situation even worse…39 taverns sprang up over a distance of 38 miles. Some people never made it to Larkspur at all.

With Axe and Flask - The History of Persephone Township 2002

Affection is a wonderful thing. It is the one human emotion that the economist cannot explain. And I have come to believe that anything that confuses the economist makes the community a better place to live.

- Petunia Valley Sideroad - Country Guide Magazine column October 2007

A figure walking across your field is more of a reason to put the kettle on than to call the police.

True Confessions from the 9th Concession - Harrowsmith Country Life Magazine column, August 1999

You know, they could meet Ray down at the yards, take the cows away from him at the point of a gun, charge him to park the truck and kick him in the arse and he’d still come back next week and buy more cows. People think I dropped him on his head when he was a baby. But I tell them, ‘No, he’s a cattleman, and that’s just the way they are.’

- Old Austin Ransier - The Team on the Hill - Theatre Orangeville 2013

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Tel 705-445-8790 Fax 705-445-9074

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Dan Needles

#3447 Concession 9
Nottawa ON, L0M 1P0

Tel 705-445-8790
Fax 705-445-9074

Dan Needles

dan@danneedles.ca

Tel 705 445-8790
Fax 705 445-9074