Update May 2: After nine days on the market, the Colville cottage sold for $265,000. The unknown buyer paid $15,100 above asking according to the property listing. For obvious reasons we changed the original headline and subhead of this story from “Famed painter Alex Colville’s Nova Scotian cottage is for sale: Buy a piece of […]
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The longest day
On the third anniversary of my mother’s death I borrow a car and drive out to her grave, as I do a few times a year: Mother’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day (her birthday), June 20 (her death day) and maybe an odd spring or fall day. She is buried in the countryside, in a corner […]