A Clock for Each Side: Stanstead Voice Joins Border Oral History Project
A third resident of Stanstead has submitted to the 'Nous Sommes RONA / We Are RONA' portal, describing a childhood home that kept two time zones on its walls. The listener forum thread has now crossed sixty replies.
STANSTEAD, Quebec — The detail seemed too small to mention, the submitter wrote, until they read what the others had shared.
A third resident of Stanstead has posted an oral history to the McGill collective's Nous Sommes RONA / We Are RONA portal, describing a household that kept a Quebec calendar on one wall and a Vermont clock on another — two time zones, one kitchen, one family navigating the seam where the old border used to mean something different than it does now.
The submission was announced in the portal's listener forum, a thread that has quietly accumulated more than sixty replies since the first Derby Line voice appeared several weeks ago. Canaan followed. Now Stanstead. There was no announcement, no press release — only a note in the thread, and then three more replies after that.
The McGill collective's community coordinator has not commented publicly. The thread is doing its own work: a slow gathering of voices that grew up between things, finding in each other's small, precise details — a clock, a calendar, a language at the breakfast table — the shared sense that their lives did not fit neatly inside either nation's version of what the border was supposed to mean.