Talbot Street (Hwy 3) & Thorburn

Cayuga's New Fire Station ~ Taking Shape

 

 

Smile for Today ~ On the subject of small talk

"Franklin Roosevelt found the polite small talk of social functions at the White House somewhat tedious.  He maintained that those present on such occasions rarely paid much attention to what was said to them.  To illustrate the point, he would sometimes amuse himself by greeting guests with the words, 'I murdered my grandmother this morning.'  The response was invariably one of polite approval.  On one occasion, however, the president happened upon an attentive listener.  On hearing Roosevelt's outrageous remark, the guest replied diplomatically, 'I'm sure she had it coming to her.'  (Maxwell Perkins, the distinguished editor, peppered his own small talk similarly at literary gatherings.  Evidently writers, as well as politicians, don't listen to one another.)"

~ THE LITTLE BROWN BOOK OF Anecdotes by Clifton Fadiman General Editor, 1983.

"Where Friends & Family Meet"

 

The Neat L'l Bookshop ~

 

"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you:  the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.  If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer."

~ Ernest Hemingway Old Newsman Writes.  From Esquire, Dec. 1934.

Dismantling the Old Bridge

There is no trail along this portion of the riverbank ~ only brush with a steep, muddy "slide" I assume used by adventurous kids.

Hearing voices in the trees at the top of the cliff, I replied and accepted a gentleman's assistance to get back up.

Looking upstream, the old abandoned Wabash/CN railway bridge.

[photos: lbw]

Looking upstream

[Photos taken Monday, July 14.]

 

 

 

[Tomorrow ~ The other side of the Bridge]