The Neat Little Bookshop has been dealt a severe blow. The owner of the property has not complied with continued, long-standing orders from the fire department. The bookshop, along with our adjacent neighbouring businesses and upstairs tenants have been CLOSED by order of the fire authorities. The building has been issued an "Immediate Threat To Life" notice from the office of the Ontario Fire Marshal.

This is a great setback for us; however, as soon as we get permission to remove our store contents and can locate a new commercial site (We have some offers.) we will notify our customers. With the brief notice that we had to evacuate today, we attempted to remove books that were ordered for customers.

It goes without saying that we apologize for any inconvenience and hope to quickly relocate. We can still be reached at 905-577-5635 or e-mail lbwalker@shaw.ca Our sincere apologies to the authors whom we had recently invited to Meet The Author Teas: John Geddes, Neil Paul and Jose Penny. We will be booking again at the earliest possible date.

Thank you for your business and your understanding. Our gratitude to our fellow business people, our family and friends who came immediately to our aid.
Lorna and John

This event is postponed until a later date. A Meet-the-Author Tea ~ Everyone Welcome

In A Familiar Rain, neuroscientist, Alex Hemmer is committed to developing a drug that would enable subjects to relive their most treasured past experiences. If he could achieve success, it would mean that Alex could revisit his deceased, young wife.

A retired high-school English teacher, author John Geddes said,

"I love the idea of time travel...I wrote it into my curriculum ~ creating a Time Travel unit studying books from Jack Finney, H.G. Wells and others."

Geddes was fascinated by Wilder Penfield's* explorations of the human brain in which Penfield actually caused some of his test subjects to relive past events.

The backdrop for his book is Geddes' own alma mater, the University of Toronto, where his professors included Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye.
http://www.johngeddes.ca/

* (1891 - 1976) Canadian Neurosurgeon

"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen."

~ Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961) American author and journalist.

"When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something."

~ Jared Sparks (1789 - 1866) American historian, educator and minister.

Cayuga Fest Parade 2011 ~ Cayuga Street

Congratulations to Grand Treats & Treasures ~ First Prize (Sorry no picture.) Click 3X on image.

Grindstone Creek Gallery is offering a free clay workshop for the children today. The children's' workshop is one of the festivities, Cayuga Fest, a three-day event, includes Art in The Park in the Village Green beside the library, Saturday only. The pottery gallery is across the street from the Village Green. http://www.grindstonecreekgallery.com/ http://www.cayugafest.com/

"It was a wildly beautiful, yet desolate place. The wind was relentless as it battered the beach. I let it punish my hair and scour my mind, as I stood there, shirt billowing like a parachute, eyes scrunched to narrow slits against the grit the wind flung in my face. It was a timeless scene: the long line of waves rolling in and pummeling the shore as it had done for thousands of years. Momentarily, I felt a brief frisson as my mind tried to come to terms with the passage of millenia."

~John Geddes
http://www.johngeddes.ca

Meet the author on Saturday, July 23, 1:30 p.m. at The Neat Little Bookshop. Everyone welcome. Coffee Pot's always on . . .

Photo: James N. Allan Park, Haldimand County, by Lorna. Click 3X on image.