Conway Park Restaurant

View of Cayuga Bridge from Conway Park

Conway Park Restaurant ~ Down By the Riverside

Every Friday night 2 pc Fish & Chips Dinner

or Roast Beef Dinner $10 tax incl.

Photos: Lorna (Click 3X on photo for larger image.)

Dunnville resident, Josie Penny, was born in Roaches Brook, Labrador, to Metis parents. She has written a book, So Few on Earth, that is making waves in literary circles. An autobiography of a girl growing up in the forties and fifties, the book describes a disturbing childhood that might have ended quite differently. Today, Josie, travels talking about her writing with a life philosophy that anyone might envy.

She was recently nominated for the Atlantic Book Award in the category Historical Writing. She was honoured at a big event in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where, although she did not win, she said, "I made new friends...and gained a lot from the experience."

We have spoken with Josie's husband, Keith, who assures us that Josie will soon visit The Neat Little Bookshop. We look forward to meeting her and hearing about her experience. http://www.sofewonearth.com/

So Few on Earth, A Labrador Metis Woman Remembers, Josie Penny, published by Dundurn Press, 2010.

My Pop is always buying books:
So that Mom says his study looks
Just like an old bookstore. The bookshelves are so full and tall,
They hide the paper on the wall,
And there are books just everywhere,
On table, window-seat, and chair,
And books right on the floor.

And every little while he buys
More books, and brings them home and tries
To find a place where they will fit,
And has an awful time of it.

Once, when I asked him why he got
So many books, he said, "Why not?"
I've puzzled over that a lot.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894) Child's Garden of Verses, Scottish novelist, poet.

Thought for Today:

"Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof, and obtain access for himself and family to some social library. Almost any luxury should be sacrificed to this."

~ William Ellery Channing, A Passion for Books, 1999, edited by Harold Rabinowitz & Rob Kaplan