Note to Our Authors:

Neil Paul with Mrs. Huitema ~ Neat Little Bookshop Poetry Reading

In The Neat Little Bookshop we have always had the pleasure of hosting authors and other fascinating personalities. We look forward to rescheduling folks who were on our calendar when we were interrupted by suddenly having to relocate the bookshop. Just to mention a few ~ Neil Paul, John Geddes and Jose Penny. We welcome all authors to once again visit with us whether it is to do a reading, sign books or launch a new book.

Meet the authors, read and share stories. Watch for exciting updates!

T R A V E L

"Whether we wish it or not we are involved in the world's problems, and all the winds of heaven blow through our land."

A Preface to Politics [1913]

"In the great blooming, buzzing confusion of the outer world we pick out what our culture has already defined for us, and we tend to perceive that which we have picked out in the form stereotyped for us by our culture."

A Preface to Politics [1913], ch. 6 Stereotypes

~ Walter Lippmann (1889 - 1974) American journalist, author, philosopher

Source: BARTLETT'S Familiar Quotations, Sixth ed., 1992

They don't call it mania. . .

""It's gotten so I can tell when I see that furrowed faraway gaze in the eyes of a customer in a used-book store, having come to a dead stop, that he is trying to conjure up his bookcases in his mind's eye and remember whether or not he has the book he has found."


"That's one of the things that all bookaholics share, like a common symptom of a genetic disease. You come across a fine volume and you can't remember if you have it, or maybe you have it with a different jacket, or maybe in paperback and here is this fine hardcover copy -- or is your copy back at home also hardcover?"

~ A Passion for Books, Three Rivers Press, 1999. Edited by Harold Rabinowitz & Rob Kaplan

September 11 ~ We Remember . . .

Cayuga-On-The-Grand

Boating on The Grand ~ Sat., Sept. 10

View from Conway Park (Please click 3x on photo for larger image.)

Snapshots

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.)