Crosswalk on Talbot (Hwy 3) Looking North On Cayuga St.

Talbot Looking East From The Bookshop

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Reading Thursday, September 17, 1:00 p.m.

John Passfield

Ospringe:  A Visit with Grandad

The story is set in Southern England in Kent.  Two children growing up in the 20s sharing stories with their grandad.  Reading and discussion.  "Coffee pot's always on..."

Credit:  "Ospringe church" by OhNoPeedyPeebles at English Wikipedia - Own work (Original text: I created this work entirely by myself.). Licensed under Public Domain via Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ospringe_church.jpg#/media/File:Ospringe_church.jpg

Lake Erie

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A THING OF BEAUTY

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing
A flowery band to bind us to the earth,
Spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth
Of noble natures, of the gloomy days,
Of all the unhealthy and o'er-darkened ways
Made for our searching:  yes, in spite of all,
Some shape of beauty moves away the pall
From our dark spirits.

~ JOHN KEATS (1795 - 1821) English romantic poet

Happy Labour Day Weekend

[Photo:  Lake Erie lbw]

"When I was a boy, and for quite some time after that,  all work on Township roads was done by the farmers living on that road.  When the tax slip came around, besides the taxes in dollars and cents it had so many day's road work.  I suppose that would be for a man and a team [heavy horses] because about all that was done on them was team work ~ levelling or putting earth in low places with a scraper. 

Every once in a while, depending on the road boss who was one of the farmers, the big grader was brought on. I don't know who appointed him. That required one or two furrows to be plowed in the ditch and three teams were put on the grader and the road was graded.  Needless to say, for some time after that, it wasn't any more than fit to drive on but there were no cars and roads were all alike.  It wasn't noticed, only when a low spot was raised with scrapers and not levelled off was there fault found and some bosses were noted for that.  Needless to say, they weren't popular and their term was short.

Most road work was done after seeding and before haying.  That was always a big day for the kids.  They lived on the road that day while the men went back and forth on the road.

That system probably was the best for the time but times have changed and the Township got road machinery and lately steady-paid workers and the roads are kept up to a much higher standard than they were.  Change is always going on.  For the better?  Sometimes that might be debatable but we will have to give the ones that are responsible at the particular time of doing the best they think.  If it doesn't work that way, the next council will change it.  The country has been brought to the present state by the trial and error method and probably that is the best method to follow."

~ J. A. Turnbull (1890 - 1975)  East Seneca, Haldimand County.

Looking West Over the Unfinished Bridge

CAYUGA FINALLY HAS LINES