Summer Holidays

July 20 - 28. The Neat Little Bookshop will be closed for holidays

The logistics of keeping the shop open extra hours this week has been a challenge. The cell-phone battery is dying. Two of three printers are down and the digital camera is malfunctioning. Creating a reasonable outdoor Cayuga 150th display and maintaining some semblance of normalcy with family and friends has tested our endurance. (Missy's wild dinosaur knocked the plant off the piano ~ dirt everywhere, including in the keys.)

In addition, the seat belt in my trusty vehicle works only if I lever a turkey-skewer into it. (The Haldimand O.P.P. are never going to believe this one.) Then finally yesterday, the clock stopped in the store.

We will spend some time watching the geese at the family cottage on Lake Erie. On Wednesday, July 29, the fresh coffee will be on again in the Little Bookshop; come and see us. Stay a while. Read a Book. http://www.cayuga150th.com/

The Law Office of Shawn Richarz currently occupies the former bank building at the corner of Cayuga Street and Highway #3.

One need only to look upward to see the impressive architecture that defined an era of colonization and craftsmanship.

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Cayuga Street Architecture

Much of the architectural detail on Cayuga Street has been randomly "modernized." Vinyl-siding, timber and paint, for example, hide some of the original structures. Decades of changing businesses leave remnants of old signage.

However, one need only to look skyward to witness the ornate brick and stonework that an earlier generation considered worthy of village life.

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Heal the World

~ by Michael Jackson

Heal the world
Make it a better place
For you and for me
And the entire human race
There are people dying
If you care enough
For the living
Make a better place
For you and for me. . .
There's a place in your heart
And I know that is love.
Make a little space to make a better place.

~ Michael Jackson

Haldimand Art Works

After occupying three different locations on Cayuga St., downtown Cayuga, Haldimand Art Works is on the move again. Regretably, this time not in Cayuga. We wish them only the best in their new location in Hagersville.

A gallery of stained glass, pottery, oils, pastels, wooden carvings ~ every medium that one can imagine. We will miss their cultural touch ~ and if they decide to move again...
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Cayuga Street ~ Downtown Cayuga-On-The-Grand

The Neat Little Bookshop is one of twenty businesses on Cayuga Street. We occupy less than two blocks. This quaint little street in the heart of Cayuga runs parallel with and is one street back from the Grand River. The Post Office -- both old and new -- the Library, the Village Green and the Fire Station are on Cayuga Street.

The current businesses are: Anet Computer Services, Back 40 Tap & Grill, Cayuga & District Chamber, Cayuga Motorsports, Cayuga Printing, Cayuga Variety Video, Come Again Laundromat, Grand River Chiropractic, Grand Treats and Treasures, Grand Visions Print & Copy, Habitat Haldimand, Haldimand & Area Woodlot Owners Assoc., Haldimand Stewardship Council, Hartwick Insurance Brokers Ltd., Miller Funeral Home, Neat Little Bookshop, Needles At Work, Peerless Dry Cleaning, P.L.P. Titles Ltd., Sears, Shawn Richarz Barrister and Yanch & Kiernan LLP Barristers. And gracing our street this year, on the corner of Cayuga Street and Highway 3, is the headquarters for The Cayuga 150th Centennial.

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Your Books ~ "Fondle them; Peer into Them..."

"If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them ~ peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye; set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that if you do not know what is in them, you at least know where they are.

Let them be your friends; let them at any rate be your acquaintances."

~ Winston Churchill