Brownfields: Poems (10+ Anniversary Edition) Dr. Debbie Boyd these images provide us with

these images provide us with a remarkable glimpse into the lives of the people who lived here during Owen Sound's first century

many with photographs and short biographies gathered from family members

Lily Fletcher

They are at once more and less than derelict space: unsuited for development without costly remediation

Saints & Sinners describes a century of tension around alcohol and its effects

Brownfields: Poems (10+ Anniversary Edition) Dr. Debbie Boyd these images provide us withBrownfields are contaminated lots that dot the landscape from coast to coast, emblems of our post industrial society. They are at once more and less than derelict space: unsuited for development without costly remediation, many will lie fallow forever, rebuking us with a silence that is not the charged quiet of nature but the emptiness of human loss. They serve as the dominant metaphor in this poetic autogeography of Owen Sound as its spaces, peoples