pferguson | November 7, 2018
This Year…This Day There are many ways for us to remember those who served. Equally there are many forms of reminders (poppies)…the obvious, which sometimes gather much attention, the hidden gems tucked away until we happen upon them and the November passers-by moving about their businesses with familiar red petals upon their lapels. Poppies, at […]
pferguson | November 6, 2018
One suggestion…one step…and a million more followed Sometimes when sifting through the research and images, recollections and recall, I ask myself what were the origins of a specific project? Where did it all begin? The hours of enjoyment wandering about paths and trails, the gentle cadence through a library’s stacks, the scrambling through newspapers and […]
pferguson | November 5, 2018
Great War Armistice at 100 Soon the day of the Great War Armistice will turn 100 – 11 November 2018. Some will travel at this time to London, the Somme, the Salient. Others will remain at home in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, wherever. The ceremonies will be well attended…special events…special art installations such as Weeping […]
pferguson | November 4, 2018
The 5th for the 11th This day of days – peace. Days before – rumoured endings. Does the rumble grow quiet, with this stoppage of time? As we await with eagerness, for a new tomorrow? (12:52 AM) Asleep at one time this evening I awaken to the repeated poppity-pop of fireworks and ‘crackers. Roman candles […]
pferguson | November 3, 2018
The Great War Poets: The Known and Unknown Brooke, Sassoon, Owen, Ledwidge, Graves, Blunden, McCrae, Rosenberg, Kipling..names of some of the Great War’s many poets. Who has not read a poem of the Great War?…In Flanders Fields the poppies blow…Some better known than others. Some poets famous for a body of work; others for a […]
