Monday Morning Musings
Posted on October 13, 2014 under Monday Morning Musings with no comments yet
The Landing – Thanksgiving 2014
This is going to be short and sweet. Many of you have already had your Thanksgiving dinner and are suffering turkey torpor. The rest of you will dine sometime today. Either way, don’t forget to set your scales back 10 pounds. Hope you had a great Thanksgiving.
It was a very busy weekend but not too busy to write some stories. I penned one for this week’s edition of the Cape Breton Star. It will appear on my website at a later date. With Celtic Colors on this week, I would be remiss if I didn’t acknowledge this with a story. A festival of this magnitude did not happen overnight. In my story titled “ Celtic Colors Celestial Choir,” I pay tribute to some of the trailblazers from Cape Breton who laid the groundwork for this extravaganza.
My “celestial choir” is composed of John Morris Rankin on piano, John Allan Cameron on 12 string guitar and Buddy MacMaster on fiddle. The vocalists are Rita MacNeil and Raylene Rankin. As my dear old departed friend , Gary Thompson used to say, “ not too shabby.” If you’re in Cape Breton this week, pick up a copy of The Star on Thursday. It’s a free publication.
I also have another tribute piece coming up. I’m keeping it a secret for the time being but I am certain this one will be well received.
Waiting in the wings is my Halloween story and the one on dieting. It might make sense to run the dieting story this week after a weekend of heavy duty eating. I didn’t really need that second piece of homemade butterscotch cream pie!
My long awaited story (!) about the Capitol Theatre will appear on my website and in The Casket this Wednesday. On a recent trip to PEI, I was discussing the story with a friend and he commented that back in the day, the theatre was the only show in town. I thought that would make an excellent title for the story. “ The Only Show in Town.”
I’m sure many of you were taught by the sisters of the Congregation of Notre Dame. They sure learned me good! I have shed the light on them in a few other stories and hope to do a full length piece in the not too distant future. All of them are retired and several of them reside in Sydney. I plan to make a trip down to visit with them.
Three of my four children were home on the weekend and they did a run through of the music they will perform at the fundraiser on October 26th. They have an awesome lineup of tunes. You might want to get your tickets sooner than later, from Brendan’s Fairway, from a committee member or from yours truly.
So much for brevity. Have a great week.
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