"A NEWSPAPER once ran an unusual competition.  For a large cash prize a question asked, 'Where is the shortest way to London?'  It didn't say where from, but didn't have to.
As every seasoned traveller knows, 'The shortest way to London (or anywhere) is good company."

or "The road to a friend's house is never too long!"

~ The Friendship Book, 2010.

"For where two or three are gathered together..."

Sunday, June 8 at 2:30 p.m. East Seneca Church ~ "The Little White Church in the Country."

151 th Anniversary Service

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Yes, in the poor man's garden grow
Far more than herbs and flowers ~
Kind thoughts, contentment, peace of mind,
And joy for weary hours.

~ Mary Howitt, English poet. (b. 1799).  Mary & William were well-known writers in their day.

"You know, Francis, when I have problems and feel a bit downhearted, I like to go out and work in the garden.  Maybe it is just being in the fresh air beside so many growing things, but I know I go back indoors more relaxed and hopeful about dealing with my worries, which seem to become smaller.
I smiled.  'That's the value of your garden, John.  Mary Howitt knew all about it, and so do lots of people, including yourself. ' "
[Conversation related in The Friendship Book by Francis Gay, 1999.]

 

D-Day June 6, 1944

 

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Jane Austen's defence to accusations of triviality of the novel:

"...there seems almost a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit and taste to recommend them.  'I am no novel reader...I seldom look into novels...Do not imagine that I often read novels...It is very well for a novel...'  Such is the common cant.  'And what are you reading, Miss --?' 'Oh, it is only a novel!' replies the young lady while she lays down her book with affected indifference or momentary shame.  'It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda'; or, in short, only some work in which the
greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language."

~ Jane Austen, English novelist (1775 - 1817) in  Northanger Abbey [Posthumously Published in 1818]. 

Meeting Train/ Hearse & Team/ Burial

Early Cayuga Businesses

Memorial Cards Printing / The Haldimand Advocate 1920

 

[Collection J.E.Walker]

Welcome to Early Cayuga ~

[Tomorrow:  & more...Collection J.E.Walker, grandson of Mrs. J.Hinds]

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