Old Brewery Bay ~ Stephen Leacock Home lbw

"After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.  The true University of these days is a collection of books."



~ Thomas Carlyle
Of Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic, 1841.

"So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books, and remembering the books."
~ Ray Bradbury

"The moment a book is lent, I begin to miss it.  My mind goes to the gaps as one's tongue goes to a cavity.  Until the book is returned, I feel like a parent waiting up in the small hours for a teenage son or daughter to come home from the dubious party."
~Anatole Broyard

"An ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy."
~ Augustine Birrell

"There was no answer, no solution, no sop, no deliverance.  What, then, did I do?  I read faster."
~ Leo Rosten

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

Old Brewery Bay ~ Stephen Leacock Home lbw

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Doris Kienitz has written the story of her parents' escape from East Germany.  Alfred Kienitz shares the harrowing experience through his daughter's book.
Today we are pleased to host an afternoon with Doris and her father in The Neat Little Bookshop.

SAT., OCT., 27, 1:00 p.m.  Please drop by.  "Coffee pot's always on..."

Written with "grace, honesty and humility,*" Doris and her father document an era that most would prefer to forget but most agree must never be forgotten.

Albert Kienitz, John & Cindy Bird
An Afternoon With The Author, Doris Kienitz

John and Cindy Bird were in The Neat Little Bookshop today to meet Doris Kienitz and her father Albert Kienitz.  Many of Albert's stories of his family and the escape from East Germany were shared this afternoon with interested listeners.  Thank you, Mr. Kienitz, for telling a story that generations will appreciate and not forget.  Children and grandchildren were among the folks who dropped in to visit with Albert.

R. L. Moore has a Few Stories of His Own to Tell

* Jessica Bradshaw, Canadian author

ESCAPE

Author Doris Kienitz With Her Father Alfred

While assisting others to escape East Germany, young Alfred along with his parents and other family members secretly planned their own escape.  It was important to include the family pet ~ a beautiful purebred dog due to give birth to valuable puppies that could be delivered and sold in their new country.  Nature doesn't always co-operate.  The puppies' story is one of the tense moments described in ESCAPE.

    The Neat Little Bookshop is pleased to host an afternoon with the author and her father on Saturday, October 27, 1:00 p.m.  Everyone welcome.  "Coffee pot's always on. . ."

Photo:  Presentation at The York Grand River Historical Society.  lbw

THE FIRST DRUG SQUAD ~

by KIRK DU GUID

"Drugs started to invade southern Ontario in quantity in the early 1970's, and the Ontario Provincial Police hierarchy decided it was time to form their first "Drug Squad."  This is the story of how a fledgling Drug Squad might have been established in those early days.  It chronicles how officers may have reacted to a new and hazardous form of policing they had never encountered before."

Kirk Du Guid is a retired Ontario Provincial Police Detective Sergeant.  He lives in the Amaguin Highlands in Burk's Falls, Ontario.  This is his forth book.

Available at The Neat Little Bookshop $15.

The First Drug Squad ~
A Much Anticipated New Book   

Visiting With Author, Kirk Du Guid

Dianna Christmas-Kehoe and Author Kirk Du Guid Share a Laugh

Veteran, Art Simmons with Wife, Anne & Daughter Visit with Kirk Du Guid

Art Simmons' story is in Kirk's book, Soldiers' Stories, published in 2009.

Kirk Du Guid and Cayuga Resident, Rick Meesters

Friends came to pick up a copy of Kirk Du Guid's latest book, The First Drug Squad, 2012.  Available at The Neat Little Bookshop $15.


  The Author with Fan Faye Farrance   (Serious for a Photo)

"Thank you, Mr. Du Guid, for a great day and for what appears to be another great book!"

(Click on photos for larger images ~ lbwalker)



Ouse Street Cayuga

INDIAN SUMMER ~ Emily Dickinson

THESE are the days when birds come back,

A very few, a bird or two,

To take a backward look.

These are the days when skies put on

The old, old sophistries of June, ~

A blue and gold mistake.

Oh, fraud that cannot cheat the bee,

Almost thy plausibility

Induces my belief,

Till ranks of seeds their witness bear,

And softly through the altered air

Hurries a timid leaf!

Oh, sacrament of summer days,
Oh, last communion in the haze,
Permit a child to join,

Thy sacred emblems to partake,
Thy consecrated bread to break,
Taste thine immortal wine!

(Photo:  October 25, 2012 lbw)