By Alan
Success is a strange phenomenon. Take the case of my birthplace. This spring it is building a million-and-a-half-dollar classical theatre that Montreal or Toronto might well envy. Yet four years ago it was just another railroad town, a farming centre, conservative and obscure. When anyone asked me where 1 was born 1 told them. Stratford, in southwestern Ontario, about a hundred miles from Toronto.
Then Tom Patterson, a business-paper editor who was also born there, talked Stratford into backing a Shakespearean drama festival. In one summer it became one of the world s great cultural meccas, a success story that has been told in some fifty magazine articles, several books and a National Film Board movie. On opening night this city of 20.108 gets more space in the world s great newspapers than Ottawa gets in a month. Stratford has appeared on TV as far south as Mexico. Through the CBC the fiat Ontario accent of Stratford residents has been heard in Europe and South America.
Tribute to driving force behind Lincolnshire Coast Light who made Princess smile
Tributes have been paid to the driving force behind the restoration of the historic 1903 steam locomotive Jurassic on the Lincolnshire Coast Light Railway.
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Paul Walkinshaw shares a joke with HRH The Princess Royal, Princess
Anne, after driving the locomotive No. 1 Paul, on the Royal Train operated by the LCLR
during her visit to the line and the Skegness Water Leisure Park in 2017. Paul Walkinshaw shares a joke with HRH The Princess Royal, Princess
Anne, after driving the locomotive No. 1 Paul, on the Royal Train operated by the LCLR
Detail from The Unjust Judge and the Importunate Widow (1864), created by John Everett Millais, engraved and printed by the Dalziel Brothers (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
John Everett Millais The Unjust Judge and the Importunate Widow is almost as intriguing as Jesus parable on which the image is based: A persistent widow unrelentingly demands justice from an unjust judge who does not fear God or respect other human beings. The judge refuses the widow s repeated petitions but eventually grants her justice so she will not wear him out (Luke 18:2-5).
In Millais image, the judge sits with his legs crossed on a throne-like cushioned chair. He wears fine clothes, pointed slippers and a bejeweled hat. His right hand pushes the woman away, and his left hand is upraised in effect telling her to stop, that he has heard enough and that his answer is no. His head turns from her, and his smiling face reflects a haughty, superior disdain for her pleas.
Tribute to Grimsby-born light railway expert who has passed away aged 59
Paul Walkinshaw had knowledge like no other
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Paul Walkinshaw shares a joke with Princess Anne (Image: David Enefer)
A Grimsby man who devoted his life to light railways in Lincolnshire has died at the age of 59.
Paul Walkinshaw was the driving force behind the restoration of the historic 1903 steam locomotive Jurassic on the railway, treasurer of its charitable Historic Vehicles Trust and owner of steam locomotive Effie on the Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway.
Born in Grimsby, Paul was the younger son of Jack and Jill Walkinshaw, reports Lincolnshire Live.
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It is a pleasure and a privilege to join FutureChurch and my illustrious predecessors in this Women Erased series.
I have to confess that I have been, from the beginning of my discussions with Deborah Rose-Milavec about this lecture, both fascinated and a bit uncomfortable with the topic. Obviously, as all the women who have presented in this program have abundantly demonstrated, women in the Christian, but especially in the Catholic, tradition have been marginalized, dismissed, used, denigrated, and even abused in and by the male custodians of the Christian tradition since very shortly after the New Testament period, if not even within it.