Hoping that you had a wonderful Valentine's Day!  We have been busy in the bookshop acknowledging some of the folks who have helped make the bookshop better.  If you are ever on facebook, check out the numerous photographs of fascinating personalities and of course authors who have visited us.

There are too many to mention and we don't have photographs of everyone.  It was in November of 2004 that our first bookshelves appeared on Cayuga Street.  We existed in a remote corner at 11 Cayuga Street opposite the red-brick building where Herb Martindale began the original Neat Little Bookshop.  There were five empty commercial windows at the time and since that, businesses have come and gone.  Thank you to all of our supporters:  family and friends, customers and fellow Cayuga Street businesses.

~ John & Lorna

 

The Neat Little Bookshop Wishes to Express Our Thanks

 

Customer Appreciation Days ~  Bookshop Specials

  

Customer Appreciation Days

Third Thursday Topic:  FRIENDSHIP, WAR and POETRY ~ Presented by Dr. Alan Bishop.

Included in today's discussion, Robert Frost, Edward Thomas, Ivor Gurney, Eleanor Farjeon, Helen Thomas, Marion Scott.

Please join us for a pleasant afternoon with Alan.  No admission.  Coffee pot's always on...

Thursday, May 19, 1:00 p.m.

 

 

Highway 3 East of Dunnville ~ Looking East

 

 

 

Wind turbine country ~ may be related.

 

Maureen Jennings, keynote speaker, Authors' Book Fair 2016 Port Dover

 

 

"In in case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you." ~ Mortimer J. Adler

 

Author Brad Smith

 

Signing New Release "ROUGH JUSTICE"

My Collier Laddie

Whare live ye, my bonie lass?
   And tell me what they ca' ye;
My name, she says, is mistress Jean,
   And I follow the Collier laddie.
            My name, she says, etc.

See you not yon hills and dales
   The sun shines on sae brawlie;
They a' are mine, and they shall be thine,
   Gin ye'll leave your Collier laddie.
            They a' are mine, etc.

Ye shall gang in gay attire,
   Weel buskit up sae gaudy;
And ane to wait on every hand,
   Gin ye'll leave your Collier laddie.
             And ane to wait, etc.

Tho' ye had a' the sun shines on,
   And the earth conceals sae lowly,
I wad turn my back on you and it a',
And embrace my Collier laddie.
              I wad turn my back, etc.

I can win my five pennies in a day,
   An' spend it at night fu' brawlie;
And make my bed in the collier's neuk,
   And lie down wi' my Collier laddie.
             And make my bed, etc.

Loove for love is the bargain for me,
   Tho' the wee cot-house should haud me;
And the warld before me to win my bread,
   And fair fa' my Collier laddie!
             And the warld before me, etc.

The Poetical Works of Robert Burns With Numerous Illustrations. Collins' Clear-Type Press, London & Glasgow.

At Cottonwood Mansion

 

Shirley Otterman   Norma Mowat   Harold Schaus

 

Thank you, Norma Mowat & Harold Schaus Canadian veterans, for your service 

 

Corporal Harold Schaus poses with his son, Ken Schaus

LEST WE FORGET

 

IN FLANDERS FIELDS

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

 

We are the Dead.  Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved, and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders fields.

 

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch, be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields.

 

~ Lt. Col. John McCrae, Canadian army doctor.

 November 11, 1918 the war finally ended

 

 

 

York Grand River Historical Society

Visit www.warplane.com

Flight Engineer, Craig Brookhouse, describes the historic Lancaster flight from Hamilton, Ontario to England.

Craig Brookhouse from Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum

[Photos:  May 19, 2015  Craig Brookhouse & Historical Society President, Ken Martindale. lbw]

Journals Serve Many Purposes

Fishing Diary recording, "Best day's fishing I ever had!  Played salmon about 1/2 hour.  21 lbs; pike 7 lbs. "

Reminder ~ 

Cindy Presant:  Daily Life on Paper -- Journals, Sketchbooks and Cookbooks.  The value of recording the simple aspects of everyday life, and how that creates a treasured insight into the life of an individual and a family.  Please bring a handwritten example of one of the above to share in the second half of the session.

Cindy lives in rural Haldimand with her husband, Ron.  She has a fascinating career in art, cooking and writing.  This varied background makes her our "Fascinating Personality" of February.

Thursday, February 19 at 1:00 p.m.

The Neat Little Bookshop

29 Talbot Street (Hwy 3)

Cayuga  905.577.5635 Limited seating.

Daily Life on Paper:  Journals, Sketchbooks and Cookbooks

 

 

Keeping a record of your everyday life, through what you see, experience and cook, will be discussed at the free public talk titled "Daily Life on Paper" at The Neat Little Bookshop, 29 Talbot Street in Cayuga at 1:00 p.m. on February 19.  Guest speaker Cindy Presant, a local artist, will discuss the significance of handwritten records and how these records can be used as ways to understand yourself and preserve the stories of your life.  She will share simple ways to start a journal, sketchbook or cookbook using paper-based methods.  Attendees are encouraged to bring a handwritten example of their own to share with the group in the second half of the afternoon session.

 

"Daily Life on Paper" is the February-featured talk of the Haldimand Literary Group, commonly known as "Fascinating Personalities" which meets monthly every third Thursday at the bookshop.  The group began meeting several years ago to discuss cultural topics and interesting personalities including local people, artists and authors.  Over the years this has included topics such as china painting, stained-glass art, poetry, self-publishing and famous celebrated artists and authors.  Topics scheduled for this spring are calligraphy, specifically The St. John's Bible Project, by Vickie Peart;  family letters from your family treasury; and "Pompeii" a reading by the author, John Passfield.

 

 

Mark your calendar:  Thurs., Feb. 19 at 1:00 p.m.

 



Authors and poets write about them.   Artists sketch and paint them.  Photographers capture their beauty.

Many a tree has sheltered animals and birds, providing wildlife their homes.  Trees speak to us from a position of strength and longevity.  We played under trees as children, spend hours sitting beneath them as adults.

We plant trees to commemorate special events.  Trees comfort us when remembering lost loved ones.

The Neat Little Bookshop is launching a Favourite Tree contest in the next few weeks.  We encourage you to think about the trees that have meant something special to you and invite you to submit either a photo or a story telling how a tree, or trees, have played a part in your life.

Deadline for submissions:  May 31, 2015.
[Photo:  Cayuga Tennis Court park on the Grand.  lbw]


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In the following weeks, The Neat Little Bookshop is launching a Favourite Tree contest.

BONNIE PEG
[First published in the Edinburgh Magazine for 1818]

As I came in by our gate end,
    As day was waxin' weary,
O wha came tripping down the street,
     But bonnie Peg, me dearie !

Her air sae sweet, an' shape complete,
    Wi' nae proportion wanting,
The Queen of Love did never move
     Wi' motion mair enchanting.

Wi' linked hands, we took the sands
     A-down you winding river ;
An', oh ! that hour an' broomy brower,
     Can I forget it ever ?

The Poetical Works of ROBERT BURNS, Walter Scott, 24 Warwick Lane, London. ["Presented to John Turnbull By a Friend, Jan 7, 1895.  Township of Seneca.]

The New Haldimand County Fire Dept. Station 4 in Cayuga

Clearly Visible Behind the Doors:  Fire Trucks





Sign on Door: "This Station is NOT Staffed"

The New EMS STATION 3

 

 

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www.ruthvenpark.ca

The Giller Prize ~ Six Top Books/ The Best in Canadian Fiction

The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis
Tell by Francis Itani
Us Conductors by Sean Michaels
The Girl Who Was Saturday Night by Heather O'Neill
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
The Ever After of Ashuvin Rao by Padma Viswanathan

The Prize will be awarded downtown Toronto on Monday, November 10, 2014.  Aired on CBC T.V. at 9:00 p.m. Live-streamed on CBC Books.  The Scotiabank Prize was founded in 1994 by Jack Rabinovitch to honour his wife, literary editor, Doris Giller.  The winner will be awarded $100,000. The remaining finalists will take home $10,000.

www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca