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BY DANIEL DEFOE 1700 Thus from a mixture of all kinds began, That het’rogeneous thing, an Englishman: In eager rapes, and furious lust begot, Betwixt a painted Britain and a Scot. Whose gend’ring off-spring quickly learn’d to bow, And yoke their heifers to the Roman...
The air stunk of a thickly obscene musk. A mixture of body odor, unwashed clothing and damp human breath. The temperature was almost unbearable, pulling moisture from the floorboards and drywall, causing them to bow and twist in haphazard configurations…
The General Strike of 1926 was the turning point of my early political development. The high hopes raised when it began and what then seemed to me the "betrayal" of the workers by the Trade Union Council and the Labor Party, which had backed down in the middle of the...
“Soon Enough”, the children’s short film from director Kim Ounette and our own Piers Rae, has finished it’s festival run and is now available for free on Vimeo! Help make it a hit and check it out.
Thoughts on Bertrand Russell, continuing the collection of excerpts from the memoirs of Freda Utley, detailing her vivid and cosmopolitan life.
Salme Stories: A Mother's Journey Part 3 Reading further into my Mother, Salme's journal I find I am captivated by this little round-cheeked darling. Her past helps me to discover so many things I didn't know about my Mother as well as the little things that made her...
Odyssey of a Liberal by Freda Utley Chapter 7 Temple and I both belonged to the "1917 Club" on Gerrard Street, which had been founded in commemoration of the Russian Revolution. Its membership in the 20's included Ramsay MacDonald and other right-wing Labor Party...
CHAPTER 18 Vital Thebeau 1947 My brother Camille and I worked in the woods all winter. We had bought a horse at the end of March; we went to get it in St. Paul on a Saturday morning. It was about 60 miles from home. We had a 1936 Chevrolet car, we had to take the...
CHAPTER 16 One day there was a guy that come into the shop and asked dad if he could make him a wheelchair. He said somebody in the family couldn't walk and he wanted to know if dad would be able to make him one. He explained to dad how he wanted it done; dad agreed...
Three men on their way to an important business pitch learn their flight is canceled during a layover. The only room available in the small town is a one bedroom hotel. They have to sleep in the same bed. They sleep business style – sleeping as if they’re standing,...
By Vital Thebeau CHAPTER 15 My mother and father were very smart; they didn't have a lot of education. They could write English or French (not a whole lot). They could do whatever they needed because they had to order their materials they needed for the shop and the...