37-904: Clarksburg may refer to the following places: Canada Clarksburg, Ontario , a community of The Blue Mountains, Ontario United States of America Clarksburg, California Clarksburg AVA , an American Viticultural Area Clarksburg, former name of Clarksville, California Clarksburg, Indiana Clarksburg, Kentucky in Lewis County along Kentucky Route 10 Clarksburg, Maryland Clarksburg, Massachusetts Clarksburg, Michigan Clarksburg, Missouri Clarksburg, New Jersey Clarksburg, New York Clarksburg, Ohio Clarksburg, Pennsylvania Clarksburg, Tennessee Clarksburg, West Virginia See also [ edit ] Clarkstown, New York Clarksville (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
74-562: A "shack by the river" in Wasaga Beach, Ontario . At this time, Burgess had a brief musical theatre career during which he starred as Curly in the town's local theatre production of Oklahoma! . Burgess has also at one time played in a band called The Ether Brothers, and had jobs as a telephone psychic and as a factory worker at a vinegar factory. Burgess currently resides in Stayner with his wife of fourteen years, Rachel Jones, who
111-399: A clumsy writer who has made his book meaner than all the others to make it stand out. With this information, Idaho locks the author in a closet and runs off, armed with the knowledge that the entire world is invented and that he now has the power to imagine it differently. When the author emerges from the closet and discovers that Idaho has made a mess of the novel, he sets out to find a cure to
148-540: A fixture on the art and music scene on Toronto's Queen Street West under the name Tony Blue. He performed poetry as an opening act to punk bands and other acts such as Lydia Lunch usually writing what he would be reading, the day of the reading. He also exhibited his paintings, including a solo show at the Xiphotec Gallery and interior and window designs for the Toxic Empire. During this time, Burgess
185-465: A multi-disciplinary approach and doctors, semioticians, linguists, anthropologists, and even art critics present theories as to its source and treatment. The director of the movie adaptation of Pontypool Changes Everything , Bruce McDonald has described the virus as having three stages, "The first stage is you might begin to repeat a word. Something gets stuck. And usually it's words that are terms of endearment, like sweetheart or honey. The second stage
222-692: A musical revue entitled Die! Scream! Die! alongside fellow novelist Derek McCormack at the Scream Literary Festival. Burgess has also facilitated a few workshops at the Toronto New School of Writing. This trilogy includes The Hellmouths of Bewdley , Pontypool Changes Everything and Caesarea . This is the first book in the Pontypool Trilogy. This is a collection of sixteen short stories, featuring such things as insane doctors, supernatural dogs, dead men, and
259-480: A number of failed experiments at disposal, officials hit on the solution to the problem of aimless, lifeless wanderers clogging the streets: send the dead into orbit. However, the celestial corpses begin to affect the Earth's sunlight, resulting in "Syndrome" – a blend of paranoia, depression, and hypochondria that turns the living into monsters of a different sort. Pontypool has been made into live stage productions in
296-461: A real ninja turtle, all within the small Ontario town of Bewdley . This is the second novel in the Pontypool Trilogy. In this novel, an outbreak of a strange plague, AMPS (Acquired Metastructural Pediculosis), causes people across Ontario to slip into aphasia and then into a cannibalistic zombie rage. AMPS is transferred through language and the only way to stop its spread is to outlaw communication. This metaphysical, deconstructionist virus requires
333-483: A teenager, such as Alfred Jarry , Comte de Lautréamont , Guillaume Apollinaire , Jean Genet , Alain Robbe-Grillet and André Gide made the biggest impression on him. He also enjoys Shirley by Charlotte Brontë "because it starts out so stable then distorts in mysterious ways ... characters vaporize and duplicate, dog bites infect out of the dark, people slip into narcotic winters." He has also said
370-468: A tornado passed through the Blue Mountains area on August 20. The tornado passed by Thornbury and hit Craigleith before moving out onto Georgian Bay . Ravenna is the setting for the novel Ravenna Gets by author Tony Burgess . The Blue Mountains has a host of recreational activities for all the seasons. Most notably is the winter skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing and cross-country skiing. In
407-402: A writer, Burgess stated, "I recognized early that something was wrong, I was definitely not having the same experience as other people around me, which would just be what it was except there was this peculiar making in the middle of it…. I used to draw at this age, horrible violent, busy pictures that my parents would hide from people and worse." Burgess has said that the writers that he read as
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#1732781042686444-482: Is a Canadian novelist and screenwriter. His most notable works include the 1998 novel Pontypool Changes Everything and the screenplay for the film adaptation of that same novel, Pontypool . Burgess' unique style of writing has been called literary horror fiction and described as "blended ultra-violent horror and absurdist humour, inflicting nightmarish narratives on the quirky citizens of small-town Ontario: think H. P. Lovecraft meets Stephen Leacock ." Burgess
481-634: Is a crown attorney. They have two young children, Griffin and Camille. Their current home is a house that is known by the town as the supposedly haunted former Thistlewaite residence. It was built in 1882 and at one point served the community's funerary needs and has a yard that is rumoured to be riddled with suitcase graves filled with pet cats from a previous owner. Burgess is good friends with fellow Canadian novelist Derek McCormack . Burgess has also published criticism, fiction and poetry in numerous national and international newspapers, journals, periodicals and magazines. In 2009, Burgess wrote and performed
518-615: Is all he wants in life. One day, Bob decides that the only way to truly be himself is to murder anyone who makes him feel abnormal; which is everyone. The narrator is modelled after John List , a New Jersey man who killed his wife, mother and three kids and successfully eluded arrest for almost 18 years (when he was captured he was living under the name "Bob Clark"). Burgess has described the novel as, "an intimate first-person account of someone who realizes that he must kill others in order to keep his own disintegration at bay and his frantic attempts to rescue secondary versions of himself where this
555-430: Is also being waged between the town's respectable citizenry and the white trash from the trailer park. This is a collection of nine short prose stories with principal characters "Tony" and "Rachel" who are based on Burgess and his wife. The pieces range across a variety of different genres, from the mundane autobiographical fiction to lurid true crime to phantasmagoria. This is a collection of "wheeled stories" in which
592-601: Is an idea explored in many of Burgess' works. In both Ravenna Gets and People Live Still in Cashtown Corners , Burgess explores the idea of "people suddenly being absolutely not what you think they are." Burgess likes to include photos and images in many of his works, such as Ravenna Gets , Idaho Winter and People Live Still in Cashtown Corners . He often takes these photographs himself. He especially likes using pictures that aren't of anything or representative of looking. When speaking about his beginnings as
629-604: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Clarksburg, Ontario The Blue Mountains is a town in Grey County , southwestern Ontario , Canada , located where the Beaver River flows into Nottawasaga Bay . It is named for the Blue Mountain , and hence the economy of the town is centred on tourism, particularly on the Blue Mountain ski resort and
666-419: Is home to the architecturally unique L.E. Shore Memorial Library, built in 1995 and named after the founding partner of the architectural practice of Shore Tilbe Irwin + Partners who designed it. In more recent years, Thornbury has become a winter and summer destination for individuals from across Ontario to vacation. The town also holds an annual Canada Day celebration that takes place on the main street. In
703-465: Is not true and make them primary." This novel took Burgess only nine days to finish. This novel follows a boy, Idaho Winter who is loathed by everyone in the town where he lives. He then meets a young girl named Madison who empathizes with his suffering, opening a terrible world of pain in him. When Madison is attacked by dogs meant to harm Idaho, Idaho changes the course of the entire story. He soon learns that his suffering has been cruelly designed by
740-400: Is the third novel in the Pontypool Trilogy. In this novel something mysterious causes insomnia among the inhabitants of the sleepy little town of Caesarea. This insomnia causes many strange things to happen, such as the town's figurehead mayor being replaced by a dwarf doppelganger and Neo-Nazi environmentalists accidentally unleashing purveyors of kiddie snuff-porn on the town. A so-called war
777-423: Is your language becomes scrambled and you can't express yourself properly. The third stage is that you become so distraught at your condition that the only way out of the situation you feel, as an infected person, is to try and chew your way through the mouth of another person." McDonald also stressed that the victims of the virus detailed in the film were not zombies, instead calling them "conversationalists." This
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#1732781042686814-450: The 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , The Blue Mountains had a population of 9,390 living in 4,348 of its 7,396 total private dwellings, a change of 33.7% from its 2016 population of 7,025 . With a land area of 284.65 km (109.90 sq mi), it had a population density of 33.0/km (85.4/sq mi) in 2021. Population trend: Tony Burgess (author) Tony Burgess (born 7 September 1959)
851-625: The Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway , which reached Owen Sound in 1873. The railway was later part of the Grand Trunk Railway and Canadian National Railways (CNR) systems. Thereafter, it became known as the CN Meaford Subdivision. Regular passenger service ceased in 1960; the line itself was abandoned in 1985. Many large late nineteenth century houses on tree lined streets characterize the town suburbs. Thornbury
888-555: The Scenic Caves. Craigleith Provincial Park is located along Highway 26 near Blue Mountain resort. The Bruce Trail passes through sections of the town. The Kolapore area for mountain biking and cross-country skiing, Metcalfe Rock which is popular with rock climbers as well as the Duncan Crevice Caves Nature Reserve are in the area as well. The primary population centres are Thornbury and
925-579: The United States and the United Kingdom. Originally, the film Pontypool was to be a radio play for CBC Radio . Burgess wrote out a script for Pontypool in 48 hours, his approach inspired by Orson Welles ' radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds . He also played in the film adaption of Pontypool and in the science fiction film Ejecta . Burgess has also been a singer with
962-508: The citizens of Ravenna inexplicably and collectively decide to kill off the entire population of the nearby town of Collingwood. Each story revolves around a unique and violent act of homicide. The inspiration for this novel was news coverage of the fall of Baghdad and its aftermath. This novel is about Bob Clark who lives and works in Cashtown Corners. In fact, he's the only resident of the tiny rural town. Bob has never really felt like himself whenever other people are around, and feeling normal
999-588: The harbour and the post office dates from 1854. Rail service reached Thornbury on September 2, 1872, when the Northern Railway of Canada 's North Grey Railway was built westward through Grey County from Collingwood to Meaford; the line reached Meaford later that year, in December. The line was originally planned to extend all the way to Owen Sound, but this vision went unrealized due to factors such as terrain, financial limitations, and competition from
1036-406: The modern resort-style communities clustered around the foot of the escarpment near the ski resorts. Additionally the town's territory also includes the rural communities of Banks, Camperdown, Castle Glen Estates, Christie Beach, Clarksburg, Craigleith, Duncan, Gibraltar, Swiss Meadows, Heathcote, Kolapore, Little Germany, Lora Bay, Loree, Ravenna, Red Wing, Slabtown, and Victoria Corners. Thornbury
1073-640: The private Georgian Peaks, Osler, Craigleith and Alpine Ski Clubs. The town was formed on January 1, 2001, when the Town of Thornbury was amalgamated with the Township of Collingwood. Thornbury is home to the architecturally unique L.E. Shore Memorial Library, named after the founding partner of the architectural practice of Shore Tilbe Irwin + Partners , and designed by the firm. During the Southern Ontario Tornado Outbreak of 2009 ,
1110-476: The rock band Lucy Jinx (formally known as Left by Snakes), alongside guitarist Chuck Baker . Burgess and Baker received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Original Song at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023 for "The Ascension Song", written for the film Cult Hero . Burgess often sets his work in the towns and villages of rural Southern Ontario, including Bewdley , Pontypool , Collingwood and Cashtown Corners. Outbreaks of sudden violence
1147-428: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clarksburg&oldid=1247035014 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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1184-412: The story after leaving it aside for two years and I was confused myself—then I decided, 'Oh well, that works here.'" Idaho Winter is Tony Burgess' first novel for young adults, although it has been called a young adult parody. This is the only novel by Tony Burgess that is not set in an Ontario town. This novel follows a zombie apocalypse that leaves nothing more than a waste disposal problem. After
1221-483: The story and bring its heart and mind together. In this novel there are allusions to classic children's fare, ranging from The Neverending Story to the Choose Your Own Adventure series – tales that play with the idea of readers and characters controlling the narrative. The point in the novel when two characters suddenly switch genders was unintentional. According to Burgess: "I came back to
1258-599: The summer there is hiking, downhill/cross-country biking, an extravagant mini putt, the Ridge Runner and events such as Met Con Blue. If physical activities are not what you are looking for, The Village at Blue Mountain has a plethora of boutiques, coffee shops, restaurants, hotels and chalets, as well as golf courses within walking distance. Less than a 5-minute drive away there is the Scandinave Spa which situated on 25 acres of natural Ontario birch, as well as
1295-533: Was banned from Toronto's Hotel Isabella when he drank too much alcohol with a friend and tried to burn the hotel down by lighting paper on top of some of the tables within the hotel. In 1989, Burgess enrolled at the University of Toronto . Six years later, in 1995 he graduated with a degree in semiotics . In 1998, Burgess and his wife, Rachel Jones, moved from their flat in Toronto's Parkdale neighbourhood to
1332-635: Was born in Toronto on 7 September 1959, and grew up in Mississauga . He graduated in 1978 from Applewood Heights Secondary School in Mississauga, despite having to use day passes from a medium security facility in order to finish high school. Burgess served three months in this security facility for robbing a convenience store with a friend while wearing one of his mother's blouses, inspired after watching A Clockwork Orange and Straight Time . Burgess then moved back to Toronto where he became
1369-423: Was first incorporated in 1831 and divided from Collingwood Township in 1887 as a separate administration. This existed until 2001 when it remerged with Collingwood Township to form Town of The Blue Mountains municipality. The town was a shipping and processing centre for local agricultural produce especially apples through its harbour on Georgian Bay, Lake Huron. There was also a small fishing fleet that operated from
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