Many thanks to our friends of the bookshop. Many of you arrived yesterday making our first day open a welcome event. Thank you for believing in us and thank you for your labour and continued encouragement.

The bookshop layout is entirely different in the new location, making reorganization of the categories necessary ~ even installation of additional shelving. It is a work in progress. We hope that if you haven't been in, you will come in soon.

John & Lorna

Post Script: Someone wrote on Facebook, "Aren't they the perfect couple to run a bookstore." We will take that as a compliment. Many thanks!

29 Talbot St. (Hwy 3) at the Cayuga St. Stoplight
Usual Hours: Wed. to Sat. open at 11:00 a.m. See Above for Complete Store Hours.

"Ninety percent of inspiration is perspiration."

"Walking yields a greater closeness to the earth, an independence. The solid thud of boots on the path means freedom to stop and admire a flower, to move at one's own speed, to rejoice in crossing a stream on risky stepping stones, to explore off the trail, to get a close-up of dew jewelling the grass." ~ John Muir

~ Source: Country Walks The Niagara Escarpment, Ross McLean, Anne Craik, John Sherk. Boston Mills, 1994.

"Laugh and the world laughs with you,
Weep and you weep alone,
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own."

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcos: Solitude (1883) Amer. author/poet.

Ella's inspiration for the poem came after attempting to console a weeping young widow who was travelling on the same train as Ella.

In consoling the widow, Ella had become so bereaved herself that she could barely attend scheduled festivities. She wrote the poem for which she is best known: Solitude. It was published in The New York Sun and later in the book Poems of Passion.

Sources: DICTIONARY of QUOTATIONS, Bergen Evans. Photo: Wikipedia.

Lucy Maud Montgomery's home in Leaskdale, Ontario, will be the attraction for fans this October. The LMM Society is hosting a three-day event featuring tours of the church and manse where Lucy made her home and her pastor husband preached. The weekend will include lectures, displays and time to socialize and ask questions.
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, October 13, 14, 15, 2011.

http://www.lucymaudmontgomery.ca/

When one door closes, a better one usually opens!

Love this door on the old train depot in St. Thomas, Norfolk County ~ L. Walker

"The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection."

Bertrand Russell, (1872 - 1970) British philosopher, Nobel Prize Winner English Literature.

(One of our favourite quotations.)