Niagara Falls, Ontario

 He made it!

For the first time in over one hundred years, someone has crossed the Niagara River on a high wire ~ for the very first time crossing at the brink of the Falls.
With a massive crowd watching, aerialist Nik Wallenda, of the famous Wallenda family, accomplished a life-long dream on Friday.  Walking 1800 feet through heavy mist and changing winds, he communicated with his father and safety crew through a headset. "It's an unbelievable view," he told ABC.


Photo: lbwalker

"Without a doubt, a man heavily influenced by his father's praise would spend the next thirty years of his life trying to earn it."

~ Peter Ackroyd, British author, referring to Charles Dickens.

While standing in front of a grand mansion, John Dickens commented to his son Charles, "If you were to be persevering and were to work hard, you might someday come to live in it."  Thirty-six years later, Charles Dickens bought the house.

Father Knew Best, Wit and Wisdom from the Dads of Celebrities, Plume/Penguin. 1997

On Dads ~

"Ah, Jack Tanner, it's a great part, a great part."

Franklin Reeve, father of actor Christopher, ". . . was excited and ordered champagne.  Christopher had just shared the news that he had the lead in Superman.  Then it slowly dawned on Christopher:  His dad thought that he had gotten the role of Jack Tanner in George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman.

"For Franklin Reeve, a graduate of Princeton with a Ph.D. from Columbia, popular culture was far, far away."

~ Father Knew Best, Wit and Wisdom from the Dads of Celebrities, Plume/Penguin, 1997.

View From the Bookshop Window ~

If you've been in the bookshop  ~ you have watched the sun temporarily disappear. . .

Photo:  View from the bookshop window - lbwalker



View from the Fairgrounds



Day on The Heritage Grand River ~

Saturday, June 23.Caledonia Fairgrounds ~ Launch Your Canoe in Caledonia.  Drift downstream.  Experience our Grand River Country.  Coffee at the Tim Hortons' Paddle Thru'  Disembark Cayuga-on-the-Grand.  Register on-line  http://www.1000canoes.com/

Constructed of Cardboard ~ Crew of Five

The Neat L'l Bookshop will feature The Walker Viking Ship in York at Grand Attractions.  This is an opportunity for businesses, organizations, service clubs, churches, museums and artists to show folks what we have in river country.

YouTube: "Parkhill Cardboard Boat" www.youtube.com

J. M. Barrie once wrote, "the life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it."

~ A Book of One's Own, People and Their Diaries, Thomas Mallon, Ticknor & Fields, 1984.

Science fiction writer, Ray Bradbury, died on June 6, 2012.  Bradbury left a legacy of hope for mankind.  When asked how he felt when he saw the pictures of Saturn that Voyager sent back, he made this observation.

"It was wonderful for the human spirit.  It was something we could all share, something that united us in its beauty.  It had nothing to do with sex, race, or country.  It embodied no philosophy.  It showed that we could do anything ~ rebuild our cities, clean our streams and end our energy problem while colonizing the moon at the same time.  It has nothing to do with money.  All we have to do is use our imagination."

~ Endangered Species, Writers Talk About Their Craft, Their Visions, Their Lives, Lawrence Grobel, DA CAPO PRESS, 2001.