Gentlemen of The Road

"EACH GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD STOPOVER celebrates the local food, culture, and music of an interesting small city or town.  We've handpicked these unique communities and have collaborated with our local partners to build a fun and intimate live music experience from the ground up..." ~ Mumford & Sons

Congratulations, Simcoe, Norfolk, on a job well done.  Shuttle buses carried visitors from off-site parking and camping to the heart of Simcoe ~ downtown.   Street fairs and business promotions attracted residents as well as people from British Columbia, New Brunswick, the U.S. and Europe to mention a few.

Main streets were closed to vehicles to accommodate the flow of an estimated thirty-five thousand visitors.

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Thought for Today ~

"No great man lives in vain.  The history of the world is but the biography of great men."

"History is the essence of innumerable biographies."

"There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed." vol. iv. Sir Walter Scott


"What is all knowledge too but recorded experience, and a product of history; of which, therefore, reasoning and belief, no less than action and passion, are essential materials?" On History

~ Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881) Scottish philosopher, writer, teacher.  The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Third Edition.

"Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading."

~ G. M. Trevelyan (1876 - 1962)  English Social History, 1942.

Elmore Leonard dead at 87 (Oct. 11, 1925 - Aug. 20, 2013)  American author, screen writer, known for his dark humour, gritty realism, strong dialogue.
"The old neighborhood has changed.  Hurley Brothers Funeral Home is now called Death 'n' Things."*

Well-known for his Ten Rules of Writing, Leonard said that "if it sounds like writing, I rewrite."  "I try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip."

*The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said by Robert Byrne, 1986, Simon & Schuster.

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On Novels ~

"Lady Peabury was in the morning room reading a novel; early training gave a guilty spice to this recreation, for she had been brought up to believe that to read a novel before luncheon was one of the gravest sins it was possible for a gentlewoman to commit."

~ Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966) Arthur Ewelyn St. John Waugh, novelist, journalist ~ Work Suspended (1942), An Englishman's Home (1939)

Brad Smith with avid fan, June Bell of Cayuga

WATCH FOR FUTURE DATE of Brad Smith's visit to The Neat Little Bookshop.  SHOOT THE DOG, is the third in the popular Virgil Cain mystery series.  Fast, witty, beautifully crafted.   Folks in the country relate to Smith's characters ~ feels like home to us!  Congratulations, Brad, on what may just be your best book yet!

Brad Smith Signed Books for Avid Fans on the Weekend at Flyers Cafe.