They don't call it mania. . .

""It's gotten so I can tell when I see that furrowed faraway gaze in the eyes of a customer in a used-book store, having come to a dead stop, that he is trying to conjure up his bookcases in his mind's eye and remember whether or not he has the book he has found."


"That's one of the things that all bookaholics share, like a common symptom of a genetic disease. You come across a fine volume and you can't remember if you have it, or maybe you have it with a different jacket, or maybe in paperback and here is this fine hardcover copy -- or is your copy back at home also hardcover?"

~ A Passion for Books, Three Rivers Press, 1999. Edited by Harold Rabinowitz & Rob Kaplan

September 11 ~ We Remember . . .

Cayuga-On-The-Grand

Boating on The Grand ~ Sat., Sept. 10

View from Conway Park (Please click 3x on photo for larger image.)

Snapshots

Doors Open Ontario 2011 ~ 10th Anniversary

Another year has rolled around but scarier than that, ten years have come and gone. Doors Open is a program of the Ontario Heritage Trust.

Established in 1967, the Ontario Heritage Trust is the province's lead heritage agency, "identifying, preserving, protecting and promoting built, cultural and natural heritage across the province."

Probably the most visible evidence of the agency's work are the distinctive blue and gold provincial plaques that identify "historic events, influential people and landmarks that have shaped the landscape around us."

On Saturday, September 17, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. celebrate our heritage by visiting some of the significant sites in Haldimand County. For more information go to:
http://www.doorsopenontario.on.ca/ and http://www.heritagetrust.on.ca/

Photo: Ruthven National Park, Hwy 54 Haldimand County ~ Lw (Click 3X for larger image.)

On Achievement ~

"Man's nature, his passions and anxieties, are a cultural product, as a matter of fact, man himself is the most important creation and achievement of the continuous human effort, the record of what we call history."
~ Eric Fromm (1900 - 1980)

"The splendid achievements of the intellect, like the soul, are everlasting."
~ Sallust (86 - 34 B.C.)

"Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait."
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)

~BARTLETT'S Familiar Quotations, John Bartlett, Justin Kaplan (General Editor), 16th ed., Little Brown and Co., 1992

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!