Kids say the Darndest Things! ~ Art Linkletter

'I can write!  I can write!"
In surprise and disbelief, his mother said:
"What did you write?"

"I don't know," he shrugged, "I can't read!"

Teachers and parents alike watch and listen in fear and trembling when I ask the innocently loaded question:  "Do you have any instructions from anyone today?"

"My teacher told me not to be funny.  That's what you get paid for."

"My teacher told me that if you asked me to tell you about her, to not say she's very old because she heard a little boy on your program who said:  'What an old teacher!'"

"This prompted me to ask him:  "How old would you say your teacher is?"  "Oh, about ninety!"

~ Kids Say The Darndest Things!  Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1957.  Art Linkletter (July 17, 1912 - May 26, 2010)  Canadian-born T.V. and radio personality.
(Photo:  Family files lbw)

Tomorrow:  Instructions from parents to kids before they appear on KIDS SAY THE DARNEST THINGS.

Introducing ~

Corner of Talbot & Cayuga Streets

The Clothesline & Useful Things !

Infants & Toddlers Good Used Clothing

Previously Loved Movies

Mens' & Ladies' Good Used Clothing

Urban Cowboy!

Find the old hotel ( opposite the bookshop) and discover a hidden world of  fun and "useful" things.)

One can only imagine what life was like back in the forties or earlier on the corner of Cayuga St. & Talbot W.  Today the current owner has transformed the bar/poolroom into a department store.  It is the kind of place where one never knows what treasure will show up and T-shirts are $2 each or three for $5.

Study and appreciate the exterior architecture.  The cost and labour of a new roof, the maintenance of fifteen toilets is not insignificant.  Look at the beautiful dormers along the roof-line.  Don't be shy.  Tell Paul he is doing a great job of rescuing a piece of Haldimand history.  Thank you, Paul. 

Brad Smith & fan Ken Vollick





Brad has a new book coming out this year ~ the wildly anticipated third in the Virgil Cain Series, Shoot the Dog.

  

http://books.simonandschuster.ca/Red-Means-Run/Brad-Smith/9781451673999 

Watch a video related to Red Means Run including scenes in Cayuga.

Brad's books are available at The Neat L'l Bookshop.

Spring Calendar

Thursday, April 18th, 1 p.m. John Passfield
Thursday, May 16th,  1 p.m. Jose Penny
Thursday, June 20th, 1 p.m. Laurie Miller

"Everyone Welcome ~ Mark your calendar!"

Grand River Indiana

This is Ontario ~ by Katherine Hale, c. 1937.
Katherine's strategy for her journey:

"We decided that the first journey into southern Ontario would skirt this lake [Lake Erie] to Port Maitland, the mouth of the Grand River, from where we should explore its valley.  We were surrounded by maps and folders.  The patterns of these maps, woven of the cobweb lines of railroads and motor roads, dotted with towns and rivers and many series of minute lakes and islands, and the folders with their photographs and information about industries and tourists attractions failed to whet our sense of adventure.  We thought that there was only one thing for us, or anyone who intended to enjoy the road ~ it was to draw an extra map of one's own, which should be coloured with associations as well as facts.  It would be a map whose design is influenced by experience of travel, and would therefore be of unconventional outline.  We knew, for instance, that we would be sure to hurry by some dull, important monument and to pause with entranced interest beside another, to drive with pleasant or picturesque ghosts out of history, and to step on the gas if they became tiresome..."

Authors' Book Fair Today 11am ~ 4pm

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Note:  Dunnville Author Brad Smith 11:30 a.m.

Reading excerpts from his "Virgil Cain Series"



Brad Smith



Reading from Red Means Run

Watch for Brad's third in the Virgil Cain Series, Shoot The Dog, coming out this year.  ("No dogs get shot in the book.")