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

Visit https://www.davidjforsyth.com/ to view David J. Forsyth's biography and books.

 

 

 

The Neat Little Bookshop Wishes to Express Our Thanks

 

Customer Appreciation Days ~  Bookshop Specials

  

Customer Appreciation Days

Customer Appreciation Days

Hobbies For Everyone

Special for Customer Appreciation Days

Gift that Lasts All Year

Looking West Over Bridge

From Day-to-Day on Talbot!

The new bridge is one lane until work is complete.   Visitors to Cayuga may want to allow extra travel time especially during the 5:00 p.m. hour - Cayuga's "rush hour"!  The stop lights at Talbot and Cayuga Street are set at green all the time for east/ west traffic;  however, there are portable stoplights at the bridge entrance both ends.  Watch for pedestrians ~ the crosswalk lights and the stoplights to One-way Cayuga Street are black-bagged.

Talbot & Cayuga St. Looking North

Talbot & Cayuga Streets Looking Toward Bridge

Looking at The Neat Little Book Shop

Summer at The Neat Little Book Shop

 

 

The Night After Bridge Moved

This is the photo that earned over ten thousand hits on facebook.  Ten thousand, five-hundred in less that forty-eight hours.  We have a new bridge aligned with the highway.



Looking East Over the Bridge Night of Move
 

There continues to be construction on and under and at both ends.  Most days there has been two-way traffic although the lanes have been narrow because of a partial lane being used for construction equipment and workers.  Starting first week of November the bridge will go down to one lane for additional work.  We will keep you posted.




Cayuga Has a Bridge in Place
 

 

We have been away.  Not from the bookshop.  Just from our blog.  So many things have been happening that we need to tell you!

We won't try to relate to you everything today.   We will post some photographs and some news stories each day.  Thank you for coming back.  We miss our readers.  Just to get started, we have been preoccupied reading Administrative Accommodation Reviews on the Haldimand County Website.  The reason?  It took a while for us to realize and understand that our six councilors and one mayor have been discussing the future of our current administration building and consequently our museum, log cabin and our historic County Court House Grounds.

Parking Lot and Admin Building

Tomorrow:  We will briefly summarize surplus administrative property, specifically our Haldimand Administrative Building.

Old Books

  

Haldimand Loves Horses

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you don't see it, ask!

 

 

Go little book,
     and wish to all
Flowers in the garden,
     meat in the hall.
A bin of wine, a spice of wit,
A house with lawns enclosing it.
A living river by the door
A nightingale in the sycamore.

~ Poet unknown

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.

 

 

Downtown Village of Cayuga

Topic Change for this Thursday:

FRIENDSHIP, WAR and POETRY ~ Presented by Dr. Alan Bishop

Robert Frost, Edward Thomas, Ivor Gurney
Eleanor Farjeon, Helen Thomas, Marion Scott

Join us for an informative and inspirational afternoon with Alan.  Coffee pot's on...

Third Thursday, May 19 ~ "Small is Great" A critical appreciation of selected very-short poetry & prose.  Dr. Alan Bishop will be presenting the topic.  Minimalist lit is generally undervalued, if not totally ignored, by critics.  Is that justifiable?  We will consider some examples of short poetry & prose; evaluating their qualities, questioning the general critical bias and considering relevant issues such as which criteria are appropriate in appreciating such writings.

The Red Wheelbarrow

 

so much depends

upon

- a red wheel

barrow

-glazed with rain

water

-beside the white

chickens

T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)

 



 

 

 

"Literature is the orchestration of platitudes." ~ Thornton Wilder (1897 - 1975) American playwrite, novelist, three-time winner of Pulitzer Prize.

 

 

 

 

 

It has been a busy - read "hectic" - couple weeks;  may we get back to leafing through some great books, quoting some passages and bringing to you some of our displays and events.

"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"

Wear the Green

The Neat Little Bookshop

 

"May you always walk in sunshine & never want for more.  May Irish angels rest their wings right beside your door."

 

 

TOPIC:  Henri J.M. Nouwen (1932 - 1996) Dutch theologian, writer.

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