When the phone rings abruptly at 7AM on a school day Monday morning, and the voice on the other end says, “We’re going to meet John Lennon, he’s in town!” – what are you supposed to do? Jump into action and pretend you are a diligent student, out the door earlier than usual without looking
Queen Victoria – 200th Birthday May 24, 1819 -2019 For a woman who never set foot in Canada, Queen Victoria’s birthday has been commemorated here in this country as a national holiday for 174 years, usually seen as the proper start to the weekends of summer ahead. Queen Victoria was monarch of Great Britain when
Longevity and Legacy. A portrait collection of narratives from yesterday, today and tomorrow. No doubt, you have your own stories of singular lives, those you know and those you have read. My collection began in late 2014, with some short posts reflecting on well-known and not so well known people from history who may or
Three days before Christmas. December 22, 1808 – Vienna. The first performance of what may be indisputably, the most memorable musical monument ever created. Half way into what was by all accounts, a seat squirming four-hour concert programme, the first four notes, in a four-movement symphony freed – and for two hundred and ten years,
As an eerie entry to a new year, January 1818, on the heels of the Napoleonic Era, a new captivating novel is published. Originally presented as written by an anonymous author, it is not until the second edition five years later in 1823, attributed officially to be written by the now 26-year old woman –
During last week’s momentous news making event in the USA, one story seemed to slip by like another silent turn in the phases of the moon. Unless it’s a full moon or a super moon like the one last November, appearances like a mellow, milky slice of a quarter moon tend to go unnoticed even