Afternoons With Authors
Schedule of Events

Oct. 25 Thur. 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Kirk Du Guid, Author, The First Drug Squad.

Oct. 27 Sat. 1 - 3 p.m. Doris Kienitz, Author and Albert Kienitz, East Germany and the Escape.

Nov. 1 Thur. 1 - 3 p.m. Anne Vallentin, M. Ed. & Co-Chair of HALT.  Topic: "The Tao of Liberation."

Nov. 15 Thur. 1 - 3 p.m. Neil Paul, Author, A Slim Volume; Topic:  Robert Service Reading.

Free Admission, everyone welcome.  "The coffee pot's always on..."

The Neat Little Bookshop, 29 Talbot St., Cayuga, ON.905-577-5635.

(Note:  Click on Label:  Local Authors to review some of the authors.)

"Best of All He Loved the Fall" ~

Hemingway Memorial, Sun Valley, Idaho

Although written in a eulogy for his friend, Van Guilder, many believe that Hemingway wrote the prose not only for his friend but also for himself. 
"I think the fall was his favourite season.  That shows up in his writing." ~  Pat Hemingway(son), Fall issue 2005, Sun Valley News.

~ Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), American author, journalist.
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"Dull would be he of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty." ~ William Wordsworth

Photos:  lbwalker

The Beauty of the Morning ~

Earth has not anything to show more fair:
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty;
This City now doth, like a garment, wear
The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,
Ships, towers, domes, theaters, and temples lie

Open unto the fields, and to the sky;
All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Never did sun more beautifully steep
In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill;
Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!
The river glideth at his own sweet will:
Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;
And all that mighty heart is lying still!

~ Wm. Wordsworth (1770 - 1850) English romantic poet.

Photos:  lbwalker

According to Albert Einstein himself, the following is the most characteristic anecdote that could be told of the physicist (1879 - 1955):

"Einstein and an assistant, having finished a paper, searched the office for a paper clip.  They finally found one, too badly bent for use.  They looked for an implement to straighten it, and  after opening many more drawers came upon a whole box of clips.  Einstein at once shaped one into a tool to straighten the bent clip.  His assistant, puzzled, asked why he was doing this when there was a whole boxful of usable clips. 'Once I am set on a goal it becomes difficult to deflect me,' said Einstein."

~ THE LITTLE, BROWN BOOKS OF Anecdotes. Clifton Fadiman General Editor, 1985.

York Grand River Historical Society, Special Guests: Doris Kienitz and her father, Alfred.

The true story of Alfred Kienitz, an escape from East Germany.

A presentation and book signing

Tuesday, October 16th, 2 p.m.

Caledonia, Ontario

"Everyone Welcome"

Masonic Hall., Hwy. 6 (beside the railway tracks, opposite Tim Horton's)

(Doris and Alfred Kienitz Coming to The Neat Little Bookshop on Saturday, October 27, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.)

~ East Germany and the ESCAPE Kitchen Table Memoirs, Doris Kienitz, FriesenPress, 2011.  Available at The Neat Little Bookshop.

East Germany and the ESCAPE ~ the true story of Alfred Kienitz ~ before, during and after WWII.
Alfred's daughter, Doris Kienitz, conveys well the uncertainty and horror of everyday life under the dictatorship of Hitler whom her parents and grandparents despised.

"Of the four horses that the Kienitzes owned, Grete (pronounced Greata) had been "drafted" by the German army the previous fall.  The remaining three horses were now seized by the Russian army:  the mare Puppe (pronounced Poopa and meaning "doll"), her three-year-old, Lotte, and a ten-week-old foal.  Against their will, the horses were taken away.  Half an hour later, the Kienitzes heard a noise at the gate.  Looking out they saw Lotte had returned.  It was assumed that the soldiers, attempting to saddle her, were bucked off and the young horse ran back to her home.  Moments later she was seized again and taken away."

Doris describes the loss of family members and neighbours to war, the seizure of properties and possessions for use by the army and the drafting against their will of young able-bodied youth to walk miles to labour in a ploughed field, building an airstrip for the invaders.  This is a story of human will and determination to survive.
The author lives on the outskirts of Selkirk in Haldimand, Ontario.  We are honoured to host an afternoon with Doris and her father, Alfred, in The Neat Little Bookshop on Saturday, October 27 from 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.   Join us for tea.