Smile for Today ~

"May your walls know joy.  May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility."
~ Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

"Congratulate yourselves if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation."  ~ Roger Maris


"When you come to a fork in the road, take it."  Yogi Berra (b. 1925)  Legendary American baseball player, coach & manager.

John A. Turnbull of East Seneca

Third Thursdays at The Neat L'l Bookshop are
set aside for the Literary Group/Fascinating Personalities.  Today we are changing the location, meeting in The Haldimand Stewardship Council office on Cayuga Street at 1:00 p.m. Optional:  Lunch at the Back40.

Topic:  "Bring a few Letters"

Below:  A letter from a young man to his "wifie" while planning a homestead and building their "dream" home.  "I see you are getting real careless with that D.R. [diamond ring].  If Mother hasn't seen it yet, I don't know where her eyes are but she hasn't said anything."

John A. Turnbull and Mary B. Jackson m. and lived in the dream house in East Seneca, Haldimand County.

"Dear little Wifie"

"My Dear Mary"

[Click on photo for larger image.]

"Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep."

~ Le Corbusier (1887 - 1965) Writer, Swiss-French architect, urban planner.

Village of York

Tuesday Morning ~