Register-Reader Day

Thursday has become “Register-Reader Day”. It is the day of the week to catch up with our community.

From the Annapolis Valley Register (page 8) in these times of Health Services challenge, we see opinions on Diabetes and Dementia. Meanwhile, the Reader gives us a celebration of the life of Kent Thompson. In particular, I recall his book ‘Getting out of town by book and bike’ published by Gaspereau Press, from the back cover,

”Thompson also investigates the role of bicycle in books by writers ranging from DH Lawrence and HG Wells, to Elizabeth Bishop and Ernest Buckler.”

To survive these challenging times, I found a couple of books. At the Inside Story, I spotted Don Pentz ‘Images of Keji Country’.

”Kejimkujik National Park resonates with the distant forces of the Mi’kmaq ancestors. Those voices are given a visual presence through hundreds of petroglyphs rock engravings, the moss-covered fire rings that dot the Keji shorelines and the stirrings of buried artifacts. These things tie the Mi’kmaq to the bold nature of ‘place’.”

From Henry David Thoreau, Walden.

“Men frequently say to me, “I think you would feel lonesome down there, and want to be nearer folks, rainy and snowy days and nights especially.”

The book is published by Pottersfield Press. I think that I have a copy of the First Edition but have been unable to find it.

Acknowledgements

Edward added the links and graphics. Heather shared a very busy, tumultuous week.

References

The Annapolis Valley Register, Thursday August 19, 2021, p.8, Diabetes: let’s change the conversation, Brooks Roche, Dementia: Twists and turns on the road to awareness, J. Archibald.

Kent Elgin Thompson. 3 February 1936 – 13 August 2021. The Reader August 20, 2021 submitted by David Thompson.

Kent Thompson, 2001, Getting out of town by books and bike, Gaspereau Press.

Donald R. Pentz, 2021, Images of Keji Country, SSP Publishers.

Joan Baxter, 2021, The Hermit of Gully Lake, The Life and Times of Willard Kitchener MacDonald, Second Edition, Pottersfield Press.