EAST GERMANY and the ESCAPE:

Kitchen Table Memoirs

Albert Kienitz signing books ~ His biography was written by his daughter, Doris

"She tells it with grace, honesty, and humility, wrapping the reader in the world her parents lived in...and ultimately left.  I did indeed find myself blotting my eyes as I read...and was relieved that my tears were tempered with the opportunity to laugh out loud, as well."

~ Jessica Bradshaw, Author of The Unbound Series.

 

Book Signing, York Grand River Historical Society

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www.eastgermanyandtheescape.com

Smile for Today ~

Come to me, O ye children!
For I hear you at your play,
And the questions that perplexed me
Have vanished quite away.

In your hearts are the birds and the sunshine,
In your thoughts the brooklet's flow,
But in mine is the wind of Autumn

And the first fall of the snow.

For what are all our contrivings,
And the wisdom of our books,
When compared with your caresses,
And the gladness of your looks?

Ye are better than all the ballads
That ever were sung or said;
For ye are living poems,
And all the rest are dead.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) American poet.

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Thursday Afternoons with Fascinating Personalities continues to be a fun pastime at The Neat Little Bookshop.  Conversation and lively discussions over tea has kept us learning and sharing ideas, stories and new interests ~ often meeting local authors.   Join us this fall for informal gatherings at the Round Table.

Watch for names that you recognize and some that are perhaps new to you ~ certainly always fascinating!  See you in the bookshop.

LATE NEWS:  Premier Dalton McGuinty Suddenly Resigns Today!  Proroguing the Legislature.

Afternoons With Authors
Schedule of Events

Oct. 25 Thur. 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Kirk Du Guid, Author, The First Drug Squad.

Oct. 27 Sat. 1 - 3 p.m. Doris Kienitz, Author and Albert Kienitz, East Germany and the Escape.

Nov. 1 Thur. 1 - 3 p.m. Anne Vallentin, M. Ed. & Co-Chair of HALT.  Topic: "The Tao of Liberation."

Nov. 15 Thur. 1 - 3 p.m. Neil Paul, Author, A Slim Volume; Topic:  Robert Service Reading.

Free Admission, everyone welcome.  "The coffee pot's always on..."

The Neat Little Bookshop, 29 Talbot St., Cayuga, ON.905-577-5635.

(Note:  Click on Label:  Local Authors to review some of the authors.)

"Best of All He Loved the Fall" ~

Hemingway Memorial, Sun Valley, Idaho

Although written in a eulogy for his friend, Van Guilder, many believe that Hemingway wrote the prose not only for his friend but also for himself. 
"I think the fall was his favourite season.  That shows up in his writing." ~  Pat Hemingway(son), Fall issue 2005, Sun Valley News.

~ Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), American author, journalist.
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"Dull would be he of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty." ~ William Wordsworth

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The Beauty of the Morning ~

Earth has not anything to show more fair:
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty;
This City now doth, like a garment, wear
The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,
Ships, towers, domes, theaters, and temples lie

Open unto the fields, and to the sky;
All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Never did sun more beautifully steep
In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill;
Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!
The river glideth at his own sweet will:
Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;
And all that mighty heart is lying still!

~ Wm. Wordsworth (1770 - 1850) English romantic poet.

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