An occasional Newsletter from Preserved Stories.
“Are we heading for bubble trouble?” is the title of a May 10, 2013 New Yorker article. [Click on link in previous sentence to access the article.] Over the past year or two, I’ve been reading books seeking to account for the Great Recession of 2008. The near meltdown of the world economy in 2008 […]
It’s taken me some years – decades, or more precisely over half a century – to learn to finish every project that I start. I’ve become better at this task with the passage of the years and as a retired teacher I have the opportunity to finish many unfinished projects. I now try to work […]
I have an interest in learning about multimedia applications as they relate to Jane’s Walks and to my website. Because I know that much of what I can learn about such topics can be acquired by speaking to people fifty years younger than I am, I’ve been reading about media arts resources in my local […]
I’m pleased to share with you the following information about a map resource: An Etobicoke Guardian article, “Victorian-era Toronto maps now available online”, appears in the May 9th 2013 issue, and as an online article. [Click on link in previous sentence to access the article.] The article refers to the following link: www.oldtorontomaps.blogspot.ca This is […]
A May 10, 2013 Toronto Star article highlights three more things to do this weekend. The article includes three events. Bird Festival The Splendour that was Sherbourne Madeleine McDowell will lead a walk Madeleine McDowell of Etobicoke will lead a walk seeking “Aggie’s wildflowers” on May 11, 2013 at 11 am from Lambton House at […]
A PDF outline of Brenna Keatinge’s talk can be found here: The City and its People: Civic Engagement Strategies for Residents I am pleased to share the following report from David Switzer of Long Branch: On April 18th, 2013 I attended a lecture at the Munk Centre Entitled “The City and Its People: Civic Engagement […]
Below is a letter from David Godley of Long Branch to Lynda Tanaka, executive director of the Ontario Municipal Board, as well as a letter to the Official Plan Review team. David Godley has requested that people send an email to Lynda Tanaka at ontario.municipal.board@ontario.ca asking for a copy of her reply to this letter. […]
We strongly support Doors Open. What a great concept! The May 25 and 26 Doors Open weekend has many events across Toronto, with South Etobicoke playing an important part. We hope it will encourage people to become tourists in their own neighbourhood! Here’s the map that Humber College has produced which you may find helpful. […]
C. O’Marra writes: Check out a fascinating three minute film of THE WILLINSKYS AT LONG BRANCH COTTAGE,circa 1928. Some of the children in the short piece are still living. The cottage may have been situated near Lake Prom possibly at 38th Street. In the film the road looks like a small trail. The sewage caps […]
This year Mike James and I have organized two Jane’s Walk events in Long Branch, one for May 4 and the second one on May 5. The May 5 walk focuses on Marie Curtis Park and the Colonel Samuel Smith homestead. That walk will end at the Fair Grounds Organic Cafe and Roastery at Fortieth […]