Catherine at Cottonwood Mansion

Fascinating Personalities ~

Catherine Stidsen is our First Personality of the Fall Season

We are pleased to host an afternoon on Thursday, September 6, 1:00 p.m. when Catherine joins us to talk about "HERSTORIES" which appear on her own website.
www.catherineberrystidsen.org

Welcome Everyone  ~ No Admittance.  Please join us.



Photo:  Compliments of C Stidsen  (thank you, Catherine) 

Tomorrow:  Learn more about C. Stidsen

One of a Pair Montgomery Dogs

Lucy Maud Montgomery refers to the heirloom dogs in several of her books including, Anne of the Island, Anne's House of Dreams  and Anne of Ingleside.  "When I was a little girl, visiting at Grandfather Montgomery's, I think the thing that most enthralled me was a pair of China dogs which always sat on the sitting room mantel piece. . .

"I have always hankered to possess a pair of similar dogs and as those had been purchased in London I hoped when I came over I would find something like them.  Accordingly, I have haunted the antique shops in every place I have been. . .there was an abundance of dogs with black spots and some few dogs with red spots, but nowhere the aristocratic dogs with green spots...The race of dogs with green spots seems to have become extinct."
Photo:  www.lucymaudmontgomerymuseum.com   The dogs with the green spots remain in Grandfather's house.

~ Lucy Maud Montgomery,The Selected Journals, Vol. II:  1910 - 1921. University of Guelph, 1987.  Canadian author (1874 - 1942)

Cottonwood Mansion  ~ 

Curator Jill Walters-Klamer ~

Announcing Up-coming Events

Peach Social Concert ~ The Cottonwood Brass

For Virtual Tour & Fall Program Please Visit www.cottonwoodmansion.ca

The Cottonwood Brass ~

Peach Social Concert

"Brass Old and New"

A Beautiful Sunday Afternoon on the Lawn at Cottonwood Mansion, Selkirk, Ontario

Ryan Baker, Cornet and Trumpet; Graham Young, Cornet, Cornopean and Trumpet;  Johnny Bissell, Horn, Tenor Cor and Alto Saxhorn;  Mary Ann Pearson, Euphonium, Tenor Saxhorn and Trombone and Dave Pearson, Tuba and Helicon.

Music of the 19th and 20th centuries performed on antique and modern instruments.  Everything from  the March and Two Step,  Broadway, Jazz and Medleys kept the audience tapping their toes.

Thank you to the volunteers and to Cottonwood Brass.

 

Dave and Mary Ann Take a Break to Change From "Old" to "New." 

Dave & Mary Ann Pearson live in Cayuga.  They play with the Brock University Winds, the Tubarifics quartet , the Cambridge Symphony and the Hamilton and Burlington Concert Bands.


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From a Railway Carriage ~

by Robert Louis Stevenson 

Faster than fairies, faster than witches,

Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;

And charging along like troops in a battle,

All through the meadows the horses and cattle:

All of the sights of the hill and the plain

Fly as thick as driving rain;

And ever again, in the wink of an eye,

Painted stations whistle by.

Here is a child who clambers and scrambles,

All by himself and gathering brambles;

Here is a tramp who stands and gazes;

And there is the green for stringing the daisies!

Here is a cart run away in the road

Lumping along with man and load;

And here is a mill and there is a river:

Each a glimpse and gone for ever!

~ Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894) Scottish novelist, poet.

Photo: Canadian National Exibition, Toronto, ON, 2012.

FOR SALE

Robert Montgomery Wants to Retire

Lucy Maud Montgomery's Dreams ~ FOR SALE

The 134 year old house that inspired the Anne of Green Gables books is on the market for $345,000. Lucy Maud Montgomery's grandfather's house is no longer making money, according to the current owner, a descendant of the author.

Little has changed in the house since the author spent summers in Cavendish, P.E.I. and wrote about it in her stories.  Electricity and running water have been added.  Open to the public as the Lucy Maud Montgomery Heritage Museum, personal artifacts and private papers furnish the house.  It is the owner's hope that the province will change its mind and purchase the historic home.

www.lucymaudmontgomerymuseum.com

Reprinted, August, 1963.  Ryerson Press

www.nationalpost.com  House Photos:  Clair Perry for The National Post, August 23, 2012.  Article Armina Ligaya. 

Anne of The Island, L. M. Montgomery, 1915.  First Canadian Edition, April, 1942.  Collection: lbwalker.

DIRTY BUSINESS edited by Jane Wilson with Contributing editor Parker Gallant. A collection of essays, articles, letters and presentations that offer an alternative view of wind-power generation to that being presented by the Ontario government and the huge, multi-billion-dollar corporate wind-power generation industry ~ even the so-called "environmental" groups.

"When you look at how our legislators created an act that removed the democratic process from Ontario's rural municipalities and at the same time, used taxpayer and electricity ratepayer dollars to open the door to huge, largely foreign corporations to exploit Ontario, it is simply astonishing.
"The government actually took a calculated risk that the rural communities of Ontario (the base for the opposition party) were too small to launch any opposition to its initiatives in the renewable energy business, and proceeded to treat rural Ontario as a 'resource plantation', as War in the Country author Thomas Pawlick tells it."

The Reality of Ontario's Rush to Wind Power

"Add to that the aggressive business practices of the corporate wind developers, the misuse of statistics on health effects from coal-fired power generation, the casual dismissal of people losing their health due to the noise produced by industrial wind turbines and the lost value of citizens' single largest investment, their homes, you can come to only one conclusion:  this is a very dirty business."

~ Introduction to DIRTY BUSINESS, published by Wind Concerns Ontario Inc., edited by Jane Wilson, contributing editor, Parker Gallant.  Available,The Neat Little Bookshop. $12.99 tax incl.www.windconcernsontario.org