"Happy Easter" Everyone

The Neat Little Bookshop is CLOSED this weekend. We wish you a beautiful and peaceful Easter surrounded by family and friends.

We can be reached by telephone 905-577-5635.

Photo by Carol O'Handley of Kingston, Ontario

Excitement is building. . . Register your participation, whether it be launching a canoe ~ kayaks are coming too ~ or offering to assist with the day's activities. Volunteers are needed. For more information: http://www.1000canoes.com/ or drop by The Neat Little Bookshop. 905-577-5635.

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Faye, Get Well Quickly. We miss you.

Everyone knows Faye Farrance and her little dog, Gizmo, from the bookshop. Recovering from knee surgery, Faye is looking forward to returning home for the Easter weekend.

Lois Marlatt, author of children's books, shares a story with Margaret Wilson at the Cayuga U.C.W. meeting.

Among the author's titles: Brock and Becca Canoeing on The Grand. Lois experiences each and every story that she writes. That involves personally travelling to every Canadian province and territory. Her next trip ~ the Northwest Territories.

Two of Lois' titles in the Brock and Becca series are on the Top Ten List on Books For Pleasure, a Canadian publishing company.

http://www.booksforpleasure.com/

Zig Misiak, historical re-enactor, writer, lecturer and educator was this evening's guest speaker at The York Grand River Historical Society, York, Ontario.

Zig is an active member of several local and international committees including the Bi-National Education Advisory Committee, (200th Anniversary of the War of 1812). War of 1812 Western Hooves of Thunder McArthur's raid against the Six Nations along the Grand River Territory, November 1814. Based on actual historical events.

The Neat Little bookshop is pleased to make available this 40 page, informative, entertaining and beautifully illustrated book by Zig Misiak. Living in Brantford near the Six Nations Territory on the Grand River, he developed a passion for the Haudenosaunee people's history and culture and this gives him a unique insight that he respectfully refers to.

He is an honourary vice president of the Dominion of United Empire Loyalists. For additional information including videos of Zig, visit his website http://www.realpeopleshistory.com/

~ Zig Misiak, Western Hooves of Thunder, Ball Media, Ball Media Book Factory, 2010. Illustrations by Scott Paterson.

"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."

~ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, Irish writer and poet (1854 - 1900)