August Op-Ed for Bridge River Lillooet News
It was with much disappointment to read in this newspaper that after a lengthy process resulting in CN’s verbal approval for the tourist train, CN has now pulled out their support. (July 22nd, CN derails plans for tourist train) Paul Deegan, CN vice-president of public and governmental affairs, wrote to Mayor Lampman that “Due to current traffic volumes and safety concerns, a tourist train is not suitable in that area”.
~ WRITER, REBEL, RACONTEUR ~ AND MOST OF THE TIME A MIDDLE-AGED DESK JOCKEY
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Free your mind, and your ass will follow
~ WRITER, REBEL, RACONTEUR ~ AND MOST OF THE TIME A MIDDLE-AGED DESK JOCKEY
Articles and art, criticism and cartoons, intepretations and illustrations... by Geoff Olson
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"[In old photographs]...we view the past viewed as the present. The personages who compose these groups…all inhabit an eternal present; yet that present…is immobile, changeless, ever-enduring....Even when we open the family photograph-album we are amazed, and sometimes a little horrified by an array of selves which, though unmistakably ourself, are as dead and forgotten as people of the Stone Age....[T]he camera’s lens serves as our look-out into a vanished world." — Peter Quennell (1905-1993), Victorian Panorama: A Survey of Life & Fashion from Contemporary Photographs, 1937.
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~ WRITER, REBEL, RACONTEUR ~ AND MOST OF THE TIME A MIDDLE-AGED DESK JOCKEY
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~ WRITER, REBEL, RACONTEUR ~ AND MOST OF THE TIME A MIDDLE-AGED DESK JOCKEY
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