"A good book is the very essence of a good man.~ His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of his actual life are forgotten.~ All the goodly company of the excellent and great sit around my table or look down on me from yonder shelves, waiting patiently to answer my questions and enrich me with their wisdom.~ A precious book is a foretaste of immortality.~

~ T.L. Cuyler, American Presbyterian minister (Jan. 1822 - 1909)
QUOTES ARE Tremendous, Charles Jones, Executive Books, 1995.

Note:  Cuyler Gore, a park, was created in Brooklyn, U.S.A.  T.L. declined a statue requesting "simply beautiful flowers and trees." (Wikipedia)

LIX
(...for Emily Dickinson fans)

A light exists in spring
   Not present on the year
At any other period,
   When March is scarcely here.

A color stands abroad
   On solitary hills
That science cannot overtake,
   But human nature feels.

It waits upon the lawn ;
   It shows the furthest tree
Upon the furthest slope we know :
   It almost speaks to me.

Then, as horizons step,

   Or noons report away,
Without the formula of sound,
   It passes and we stay.

A quality of loss

   Affecting our content,

As trade had suddenly encroached

   Upon a sacrament.

~ Emily Dickenson

Spring 2012

Oh Pooh!  Do you think it is a CABIN-FEVER CLEARANCE? $1, $2, 3 for $1, $4 and $5 ~ books, books, books.  Hard covers, soft covers.

The Neat Little Bookshop has tables of books.  Watch for the CABIN FEVER signs.  Stop by and pick up a few.  We're getting ready for spring!   SALE STARTS Wednesday, March 6 ~ goes 'til Saturday, March 9.  Open 10:30 in the morning.

Only nineteen days until SPRING!

BY THE SEA

I started early, took my dog,
And visited the sea;
The mermaids in the basement
Came out to look at me,

And frigates in the upper floor
Extended hempen hands,
Presuming me to be a mouse
Aground, upon the sands.

But no man moved me till the tide
Went past my simple shoe,
And past my apron and my belt,
And past my bodice too,

And made as he would eat me up
As wholly as a dew
Upon a dandelion's sleeve ~
And then I started too.

And he ~ he followed close behind ;

I felt his silver heel

Upon my ankle, ~ then my shoes

Would overflow with pearl.

Until we met the solid town,

No man he seemed to know ;

And bowing with a might look

At me, the sea withdrew.

~ Emily Dickinson  Collected Poems of.  Chatham River Press, 1983.

IMPORTANT

Sunday Gun-Hunting Meeting

Tuesday, March 5 at 1:00 p.m. in the Cayuga Administration Building, 45 Munsee Street North, Cayuga.
Haldimand county will be holding a Council in Committee meeting to discuss the potential adoption of Sunday gun hunting within the County.

A letter from The Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters (OFAH) states that it "is extremely important for all hunters to attend this meeting to show their support of expanded hunting opportunities* as well as their support in allowing Sunday gun hunting within Haldimand County."

* As a property owner and resident of Haldimand,  the question is: what precisely does "expanded hunting opportunities" involve?  My experience is that NO TRESPASSING signs have little effect.  My family was once threatened while walking along a railway trail by a rifle-wielding individual.  Can we not preserve Sunday as a day for non-hunters, trail-walkers/hikers and woodlot explorers? 

LBW



Cayuga Tennis Courts



Nineteen Days 'til SPRING !

Cayuga Skateboard





Join the Caledonia Afternoon Book Club

Guest Speaker:  Joseph Rider

Wednesday, March 13, 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Haldimand County Public Library

Caledonia Branch

100 Haddington St., Caledonia.

Author of The Way It Was:  My Life Story including a 40 year Cannery Career.

Stories and photographs in Rider's autobiography will be familiar to Cayuga residents.  He lived in a farmhouse on the Kohler Rd, Haldimand County; lived and worked in surrounding areas ~ Jarvis, Simcoe, Hamilton & St. Catherine's.
Today Joe Rider lives with his wife in Brantford, Ontario.

The Way It Was is available at The Neat L'l Bookshop. $20 tax incl.