A week ago, Heather and I met up with Anne and Bill Crossman, Roger Mosher at Lunn’s Mill.
Everyone brought something to the table. Bill had a bag of books from his Winter reading. Roger had a portfolio of his photo-art. And Anne arrived with her recent publication of the blog about her Parents. Heather and I came refreshed from our adventure to Toronto.
From Bill’s collection, I noted two themes ’returning home’ and indigenous writing. Anne’s family blog reinforced the first.
The meeting showed how each of us had used the time since the previous get-together, likely in the Summer 2021.
Another highlight this week was coffee and breakfast sandwich at the Aroma Mocha in Bridgetown.
While Heather enjoyed the dentist, I could look out the window to the Endless Shores bookstore on a cold, wet snow day. I happened to find a book at Aroma Mocha — ’Windsor Castle’. It brough back fond memories.
On the inside cover :’To Edith. A reminder of a happy day at Windsor. with love from Alice and Dan. 25/7/36.’ The subtitle reads ’An old time romance of Windsor Castle which features Henry the Eighth, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour and Cardinal Wolsey’.
I purchased the hard cover book for five dollars ! I also picked up ’My Bridgetown’ printed by Integrity Printing, Friday, April 1st.
Acknowledgements
Thank you to Roger, Anne and Bill for the company. Heather helped with the book readings. Edward added the graphics.
Postscript
The snow has gone!
References
Drew Hayden Taylor, 2021, Me Tomorrow: Indigenous Views of the Future, Douglas and McIntyre.
Sonia Shah, 2021, The Next Great Migration, Bloomsbury Publishing.
Michelle Good, 2020, Five Little Indians, Harper.
Kamal Al-Solaylee, 2021, Return: Why we go back to where we come from, Harper Collins.
Anne (Tripe) Crossman, 2022, Celebrating Phil and Elizabeth Tripe, Printed by Integrity Printing.
Roger Mosher, photo art http://flickr.com/photos/solenkaru
Ernest Blair Experiment 
Our get-together was fun and illuminating – as always. We rally do need to do it more often. I think that will happen when we can gather outside. A.
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Anne:
I look forward to the next time.
Bob
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Bob
Just reading this and recognizing the number of times in your blogs you reference visiting independent bookstores. We are very lucky to have so many of these (3 in Lunenburg) in NS as they have all but disappeared elsewhere. Future blog topic?
Brian
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Thanks, Brian.
It would make a good blog.
Rural Nova Scotians are avid readers.
Bob
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