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Who’s On First? The Walkerville Chicks, that’s who.
It’s kind of fun checking my blog’s stats to see how people find it. Now, before you think I don’t get out much, I have to say in my defence that that is simply not the case. I do get … Continue reading
Posted in People, Walkerville, Windsor Now, Windsor Then
Tagged 1920s, baseball, black cohosh, boys of spring, Chick Construction, Chick Paving, clippings, cold, first, game, heat, heritage, history, hot, Mother Nature, newspaper, Niagara Falls, now, pastime, rain, semi-professional, snow, sport, sports heroes, summer, sun, team, then, Thomas Chick, Time, Walkerville Chicks
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A Woman’s Work is Never Done: Walkerville early 1900s
On a warm summer’s day, somewhere in Olde Walkerville, a woman brings a chair outside to shell her peas, or snap her beans, or perhaps take down the wash. Sitting regally, she observes the camera and the person taking her … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, People, Walkerville, Windsor Now, Windsor Then
Tagged 1900s, beans wash, cookstove, laundry, peas, photograph, regal, regally, snap, summer, woman, wonder, work
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Springs, shoots and leaves.
According to the Farmer’s Almanac, southern Ontario is supposed to get a dry, hot summer. (See for yourself: http://www.almanac.com/weather/longrange/region/ca/3#) I say, bring it on! Enough already! Tomorrow is April 6, 2011. There is a nary a green leaf to be … Continue reading
Posted in People, Walkerville, Windsor Now
Tagged April, canopy, dry, Farmer's Almanac, forecast, green, hot, leaves, prediction, shoots, snow flurries, southern ontario, spring, summer, trees, warmer
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Walking barefoot, uphill, in a snowstorm.
What? Another freezing rain warning for Windsor and Essex County today? Oh joy! Oh rapture! Hey, It’s March 24… bring it on! Maybe because we’ve had such a miserably cold March, April will treat us a little better. Hmmm, maybe … Continue reading
Posted in People, The Straits, Walkerville, Windsor Now, Windsor Then
Tagged 1886, Albert Kahn, April, bizarre, blizzards, broken, Canada, Detroit, drifts, Foxley, freak, freakish, gardens, humidex, May, Ontario, snowstorm, spring, summer, Walkerville, weather, winds, Windsor
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