An occasional Newsletter from Preserved Stories.
Warfare in North America, 1500-1865: The normal grammar that defined the meaning of wartime violence sometimes didn’t work
/0 Comments/in MCHS Stories, Newsletter/by Jaan PillA blurb at the Toronto Public website notes that Wayne E. Lee, in this book published in 2011 by Oxford University Press, has concluded that: “In the end, the repeated experience of wars with barbarians or brothers created an American culture of war that demanded absolute solutions: enemies were either to be incorporated or rejected. […]
May 2012 Jane’s Walk article in upcoming CSA newsletter
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillLisa Wilder is National Coordinator for the Canadian Stuttering Association (CSA). She’s also editor of CSA newsletter and webmaster of the CSA website. Lisa has recently shared with me a PDf file of an article that I wrote about the May 6, 2012 South Long Branch Jane’s Walk: May 2012 South Long Branch Jane’s Walk. Photo credit: Peter […]
Mental imagery, as Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston explain in their 1978 talk in Toronto, played a key role in the portrayal of Walt Disney’s animated characters
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillA moral logic was eventually built in to the structure of civic advocacy
/0 Comments/in Long Branch, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillIn a previous post, I’ve referred to the argument that the introduction of a moral logic has turned out to be an effective way to sell public and private goods. This is a dimension of civic advocacy that I did not pay much attention to, when I first read the concluding chapter of Endless propaganda (Rutherford, […]
The shelter at the Long Branch TTC Loop was built in 1928, the year Mickey Mouse made his on-screen debut
/0 Comments/in Long Branch, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillISTAR’s 25th anniversary celebration
/0 Comments/in Newsletter/by Jaan PillI was very pleased to see that a report has been posted on the Canadian Stuttering Association website concerning the 25th anniversary celebration for ISTAR, the Institute for Stuttering Treatment and Research. Here’s the text of the article, written by Jaan Pill: I was very pleased that I had the opportunity to attend the celebration […]
The blurring of boundaries between private and public
/1 Comment/in Jane's Walk, Long Branch, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillA city of one’s own (2008) addresses the distinction between what is private and what is public. The subtitle of the book is: “Blurring the boundaries between private and public.” Chapter 5, by Renaud Le Goix of the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, is entitled “Gated communities: Generic patterns in suburban landscapes?” The chapter argues that “gated enclaves should not […]
Rex Pippy has shared on Facebook an August 1958 photo of the Blackhead Wharf, Newfoundland
/0 Comments/in Newsletter/by Jaan PillJeff Hollett of Yellowknife reports that the wharf, pictured in this photo that Rex Pippy has posted to Facebook, is no longer there. This location was a playground from about 1974 to 1982.
Archaeological artifacts are identified by their placement, relative to other artifacts, on a grid
/0 Comments/in Newsletter/by Jaan PillArchaeology is a field of study. It also serves as a metaphor. By metaphor I’m thinking of the fact that an archaeological survey involves the application of a grid across a plot of land. Each artfifact that is is dug up in such a survey is identified in relation to where it’s located on the […]