The Frenches teamed with Kingston geologist Dugald Carmichael, a retired professor of Queen’s University to create a wonderful book about how The County became to be from geological origins to current times – which makes it the total history of Prince Edward County in this book Wind, Water, Barley & Wine. He translated the county’s landscape into simple terms.

“It’s not an academic tome,” said Orland, a retired reporter and columnist for The Globe and Mail, Ottawa Citizen and Kingston Whig-Standard.

The book starts at the very beginning, showing the county’s location at a time before humans appeared and the continents took their current forms.

“It’s a first-class production by Quinte people,” author Orland French said, noting every contributor resides in the region. Acclaimed political author Peter C. Newman wrote the foreward.

“It will help them to look at the county in a new way or a different way – to look at the county from the ground up and the surface down,” said editor Sylvia French.

It’s also marketed as a knowledge-filled souvenir for tourists.