“The book—which shares true tales of going back to the land in 1970s Nova Scotia—is the cure to your screen time habit.”
— JADE NAUSS, THE COAST
The Coast: Arts and Music
Garry Leeson's The Dome Chronicles will inspire you to go off the grid.
“It wouldn’t be fair to say that everything that happens around here is funny, but anything that wasn’t, I’d shy away from,” explains Garry Leeson…
The Grapevine Newspaper
They Built a Dome: The Dome Chronicles Book
“Their epic Nova Scotia journey began in Toronto, where they packed up a boxcar, taking advantage of an ancient glitch in the system that allowed settlers a special cheap fare: $200 for all the animals and cargo they could stuff into one boxcar along with one vehicle and one person (making Andrea technically a stowaway)...”
The Chronicle Herald
The Book Shelf: Short stories
The Dome Chronicles (Nevermore Press) by author Garry Leeson tells a true, 1970s back-to-the-land story. In 1972, Leeson, a writer, auctioneer and farmer, left Toronto with his partner and a menagerie of farm animals and set out for a deserted 100-acre farm on the South Mountain in Harmony, N.S. They were determined to preserve the foundations of an old farmstead while constructing a geodesic dome. Over the next 40 years, through both flood and fire, and various highs and lows, they persevered.