pferguson | July 26, 2017
Moonstone The 700 little ships of Dunkirk included fishing boats, lifeboats, pleasure boats, private yachts and launches berthed along the River Thames and the southern and eastern coasts of England. There were three routes the boats could take, each journey with unique hazards. Route Z (39 nautical miles) the shortest route, of two hours sailing […]
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pferguson | July 19, 2017
Tempest and Tranquility Less than 15’ in length the 1937-constructed Tamzine is believed to be the smallest of the little ships that set forth to the beaches of Dunkirk where it helped save soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force; many of whom would fight on these shores again and across Northwest Europe. Tamzine, built of Canadian […]
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Tags: British Pathe, Dunkirk (film), Dunkirk (France), Dunkirk Evacuation, English Channel, Film History, Imperial War Museum, Little Ships, Spirit of Dunkirk, Tamzine
pferguson | June 17, 2017
A Powerful Allegory This all started with a reminder of wheat blowing across the fields to the beat of the wind, anchored to this good earth. This earth, this place that keeps us despite all that we have attempted to carve from it. A recent post by the Flanders Jocks of a Scottish soldier standing […]
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Tags: Allegory, Family, Film History, Flanders Jocks, Gladiator, Home, Honour, Jean Redpath, Maximus, Resurrection, Strength, Symbols, Wheat, Will Ye No Come Back Again
pferguson | June 4, 2017
Chance – Observation – Imagery – Voice and even a little Research A recent opportunity allowed me to think a bit more about what I do to create content – to find relationships between like things, dissimilar things and to create or perhaps reconnect connections. I suggested to my audience there were five keys that […]
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Tags: Anne Murray, Connection, David Francey, Eddie and the Cruisers, Eddie and the Cruisers II Eddie Lives!, Family, Film History, Gatherings, Hank Williams, Hey Good Lookin', Imagery, John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band, Midway, New York City, Oak Bay, Observation Chance, Peter Bourne, Remembrance, Research, Soundtracks, Victoria, Voice, What About Me
pferguson | May 13, 2017
The Nile Campaign 1884 – 1885 As we walk from Liverpool train station the blue-green figure of an officer on a stone plinth attracts us. Together we walk across the roadway and stand before Major General George Earle CB, CSI. Upon the plaque KIRBEKAN stands out from the text and my mind, for I have […]
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Tags: Abu Klea, Ancientania, Brighton, British Museum, Canadian Boatman, Chilliwack, Echoes, Egypt, Kamloops, Khartoum, King and Country, Kirbekan, Liverpool, London (England), Major General William Earle, Malcolm MacLeod, Mortar, National Army Museum, Nile Campaign 1884-1885, Nile Voyageur, Old Steine Gardens, Pleasant Cemetery, Queen and Country, Queen Victoria, Royal Sussex Regiment, Soudan, Sudan, The Nile, Tommy Atkins, William Southern
