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Friday, February 22, 2013

To the Trains

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As we leave the great hall of the ticket area in Union Station, and descend to the rumbling departures netherworld , the decor changes fro...

Angels in the Details

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Don't expect to get a ticket for this spot today The academic Beaux-arts architectural style taught at the Ecole des Beax-Arts in P...

Who knew? Who looked?

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As I observed in an earlier post about the astonishing Union Station, most folks miss the best features of the place, in the stampede to cat...
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Saturday, February 16, 2013

Travel is so Broadening

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Our grandma Pierce was very fond of Sinclair Lewis short stories. I thought of her last week, when I had the opportunity to spend an hou...
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Monday, February 11, 2013

A Flash of Pretty Ankle

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Recently I wrote about Picton's rowlock bond houses, and mentioned one that had caught my eye as I drove past down the 'town hill...
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Saturday, February 2, 2013

Row row row

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Welsh House, Ferguson at Mary This is the Welsh/Hodgson House built c. 1857 in Picton Ontario. It sits at the corner of Ferguson and Ma...
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Sunday, January 27, 2013

It's what's outside that counts - the facts on faux

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Belleville has been doing a lot of reminiscing lately about its personal connection to the great Hotel Quinte, which we lost to fire before ...
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Ancestral Roofs is my online journal celebrating the built heritage of Ontario.
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