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Doors Open Ontario 2011 ~ 10th Anniversary

Another year has rolled around but scarier than that, ten years have come and gone. Doors Open is a program of the Ontario Heritage Trust.

Established in 1967, the Ontario Heritage Trust is the province's lead heritage agency, "identifying, preserving, protecting and promoting built, cultural and natural heritage across the province."

Probably the most visible evidence of the agency's work are the distinctive blue and gold provincial plaques that identify "historic events, influential people and landmarks that have shaped the landscape around us."

On Saturday, September 17, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. celebrate our heritage by visiting some of the significant sites in Haldimand County. For more information go to:
http://www.doorsopenontario.on.ca/ and http://www.heritagetrust.on.ca/

Photo: Ruthven National Park, Hwy 54 Haldimand County ~ Lw (Click 3X for larger image.)

On Achievement ~

"Man's nature, his passions and anxieties, are a cultural product, as a matter of fact, man himself is the most important creation and achievement of the continuous human effort, the record of what we call history."
~ Eric Fromm (1900 - 1980)

"The splendid achievements of the intellect, like the soul, are everlasting."
~ Sallust (86 - 34 B.C.)

"Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait."
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)

~BARTLETT'S Familiar Quotations, John Bartlett, Justin Kaplan (General Editor), 16th ed., Little Brown and Co., 1992

Many thanks to our friends of the bookshop. Many of you arrived yesterday making our first day open a welcome event. Thank you for believing in us and thank you for your labour and continued encouragement.

The bookshop layout is entirely different in the new location, making reorganization of the categories necessary ~ even installation of additional shelving. It is a work in progress. We hope that if you haven't been in, you will come in soon.

John & Lorna

Post Script: Someone wrote on Facebook, "Aren't they the perfect couple to run a bookstore." We will take that as a compliment. Many thanks!

29 Talbot St. (Hwy 3) at the Cayuga St. Stoplight
Usual Hours: Wed. to Sat. open at 11:00 a.m. See Above for Complete Store Hours.

"Ninety percent of inspiration is perspiration."

"Walking yields a greater closeness to the earth, an independence. The solid thud of boots on the path means freedom to stop and admire a flower, to move at one's own speed, to rejoice in crossing a stream on risky stepping stones, to explore off the trail, to get a close-up of dew jewelling the grass." ~ John Muir

~ Source: Country Walks The Niagara Escarpment, Ross McLean, Anne Craik, John Sherk. Boston Mills, 1994.

"Laugh and the world laughs with you,
Weep and you weep alone,
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own."

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcos: Solitude (1883) Amer. author/poet.

Ella's inspiration for the poem came after attempting to console a weeping young widow who was travelling on the same train as Ella.

In consoling the widow, Ella had become so bereaved herself that she could barely attend scheduled festivities. She wrote the poem for which she is best known: Solitude. It was published in The New York Sun and later in the book Poems of Passion.

Sources: DICTIONARY of QUOTATIONS, Bergen Evans. Photo: Wikipedia.