Snapshots

Doors Open Ontario 2011 ~ 10th Anniversary

Another year has rolled around but scarier than that, ten years have come and gone. Doors Open is a program of the Ontario Heritage Trust.

Established in 1967, the Ontario Heritage Trust is the province's lead heritage agency, "identifying, preserving, protecting and promoting built, cultural and natural heritage across the province."

Probably the most visible evidence of the agency's work are the distinctive blue and gold provincial plaques that identify "historic events, influential people and landmarks that have shaped the landscape around us."

On Saturday, September 17, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. celebrate our heritage by visiting some of the significant sites in Haldimand County. For more information go to:
http://www.doorsopenontario.on.ca/ and http://www.heritagetrust.on.ca/

Photo: Ruthven National Park, Hwy 54 Haldimand County ~ Lw (Click 3X for larger image.)

On Achievement ~

"Man's nature, his passions and anxieties, are a cultural product, as a matter of fact, man himself is the most important creation and achievement of the continuous human effort, the record of what we call history."
~ Eric Fromm (1900 - 1980)

"The splendid achievements of the intellect, like the soul, are everlasting."
~ Sallust (86 - 34 B.C.)

"Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait."
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)

~BARTLETT'S Familiar Quotations, John Bartlett, Justin Kaplan (General Editor), 16th ed., Little Brown and Co., 1992