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OPINION: Got the supply chain blues that only a guy from Georgia with a garbage can bacon smoker can cure

November 23, 2021 by Dan Needles

This whole past year has given us a steady diet of bad news about supply chain issues, with hungry factories, tight inventories, shipping bottlenecks, resource shortages and thousands of people who … [Read more...]

OPINION: What is it about rural living? Moments of clarity for the exhausted

October 25, 2021 by Dan Needles

I have a friend who moved out of the city with his wife 30 years ago to pursue a career as an editor and a shepherd on a small farm near Peterborough. He was thoroughly urban and, I would assume, … [Read more...]

OPINION: The best driver ever

September 30, 2021 by Dan Needles

Just reading in this newspaper about teenage drivers heading out on the road without licenses because the province can’t deal with the enormous backlog in testing created by the pandemic. My own … [Read more...]

OPINION: The best ideas come from old guys

August 31, 2021 by Dan Needles

Just celebrated my 70th birthday last month. We attach great importance to decades only because of the calculations of some forgotten Byzantine astrologer, not because there is any cosmic significance … [Read more...]

Curiosity House Books: A Reader Profile

November 20, 2020 by Dan Needles

Dan Needles feeding the donkeys

On the Farm with Dan Needles Photo by Jon Tamlin Edited by Rina Barone I remember the first time I met Dan Needles. He came into the bookstore and within minutes he had engaged the few of us there … [Read more...]

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Marsh Marigolds Performances

Marsh Marigolds, a new Dan Needles … [More...]

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Ed’s Garage June 9 – 26

Ed’s Garage, by Dan Needles From the … [More...]

On a short leash illustration by Shelagh Armstrong

On a Short Leash

Last summer, my big fluffy white … [More...]

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Finding Larkspur – A Return to Village Life

True Confessions From the Ninth Concession

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Wingfield’s World

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With Axe and Flask

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Dan Needles Guest Speaker

Dan is frequently asked to speak at conferences and banquets across the country, making us laugh about the old rural community and the way it meets the modern world.....read more

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​Dan Needles

dan@danneedles.ca

Tel 705-445-8790
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Latest Posts

  • Marsh Marigolds Performances March 20, 2026
  • Ed’s Garage June 9 – 26 March 20, 2026
  • On a Short Leash March 14, 2026
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