Yes, Bernard Epps’s The Eastern Townships Adventure, Volume 1 & 2, has come alive! Please visit our brand-new SHOP page on this website to learn all about this new edition, and how and where to get yours. Who’s publishing it? The Townships Sun, the Eastern Townships Resource Centre, and Shoreline Press have joined forces to…
Bury, November 14, 2024. The long-awaited two-volume set of The Eastern Townships Adventure by Bernard “Bernie” Epps will be released this December 1st at the first of three exciting holiday launches. The first, a gala Christmas Tea and Launch, will be hosted by the Bury Historical & Heritage Society on Sunday, December 1st, at…
“Camp N” or “Camp 42” (i.e. prison), located beside what is now the Talbot Prison, bordering a well-travelled bike path along the St. Francis River in Sherbrooke. Prisoners walk back to their quarters in November 1945. The walkway connected two separate sections of the camp. — (Source: Dept. of National Defence, LAC PA-114463, POWsinCanada.ca) …
Bernard Epps has given us a treasure-trove of tales about fascinating folk living their lives with passionate purpose. (Guy Rex Rodgers) Between now and November 15 is your chance to pre-order these two new books for only $45! You’ve heard the story of the lost manuscript? Volume 1, A History to 1837, was published in 1992…
Bernie Epps’s typewriter invites you to preorder “The Eastern Townships Adventure” by Bernard Epps. Volume 1: A History to 1837 Volume 2: 1837 to 1900 Townships Sun Eastern Townships Resource Centre Shoreline Press have joined forces to publish this riveting read by Bernard Epps, Townships writer & historian. Supported by the Bélanger-Gardner Foundation •…
Coming Soon ― The Eastern Townships Adventure by Bernie Epps — October 19, 2024. A new two-volume set of The Eastern Townships Adventure by Bernard Epps is slated for publication on December 1st. Pre-orders are accepted from now until November 15. Well-known Townships writer “Bernie” Epps extensively researched and wrote the two volumes in the…
The Bury Historical and Heritage Society is hosting the Townships Sun’s upcoming Bernard Epps “The Eastern Townships Adventure” Book Launch. The two volume set will include a new edition of Volume 1 and a never before published Volume 2, and feature commentary from numerous local personalities and the covers will feature paintings by…
It’s been in the news recently. Back in December 2022, the Townships Sun published an article about just this problem, by retired anthropology professor Jacqueline Korschun Hyman. More than just describing the problem, she discusses an approach to address it! Read Hyman’s “Homeless in the Townships” right here. – R.A. Garber, Editor
My Father’s Hands (First published in the Townships Sun, June 1982) by Bernard Epps (A couple of years ago, I wrote a piece about my mother called “A Wartime Christmas.” When someone told me “I cried when I read that,” I was delighted because I’d cried when I’d written it, and only regretted I…
There’s a Cow in my Tree! Bernard Epps was an extremely versatile writer and artist. His daughter, Jennifer Epps, recalls that he “used to go away on drafting jobs in cities, work overtime, and save up the money to come back and write.” His dexterous drawings and supple wit found expression in cartoons. Here is…