pferguson | February 17, 2018
Will Ye Go Lassie Go Though perhaps this tune has wandered to my ears sometime in my past, it was only recently when the tune was featured in Their Finest that the melody, sung by actor Bill Nighy, has become anchored to my person. That anchor comes, not only in the form of the lyric […]
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Tags: 1940, 51st Highland Division, Bill Nighy, Dunkirk, Family, Film History, Francis McPeake, Home, St. Valery, The Regiment, Their Finest, Wild Mountain Thyme, Will Ye Go Lassie Go
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 | April 11, 2017
It is as if Vimy is the start of what I do Vimy is connected to family. It’s personal. This I learned many years ago from my grandmother who told me stories about her father…..which were…..upon reflection…..stories her mother had told. This was the man Grannie knew…..memories…..passed from one generation to another. Grannie was two […]
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Tags: 31st Canadian Infantry Battalion, Family, Generations, Home, My Vimy, Ole Berget, Vimy Memorial, Vimy Rededication 2007, Vimy Ridge
pferguson | March 11, 2017
The Transports that brought them Today while sauntering through countless images I happened upon this painting that I have always enjoyed for its subject matter and vibrant colours and interrupting angles. Arthur Lismer was an official Canadian war artist and I can only imagine what Lismer thought when encountering the abstract lines of the Olympic […]
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Tags: Arthur Lismer, Canadian Expeditionary Force, Canadian Pacific Steamship Company, Cunard Line, Dazzle Paint, Halifax (Nova Scotia), HMS President, Home, Liphook, Liverpool, Painting, RMS Adriatic, RMS Baltic, RMS Empress of Britain, RMS Mauretania, SS Carmania, SS Cedric, SS Coronia, Transport Ships, War Artists, White Star Line
pferguson | December 31, 2014
Thoughts of Home I find inspiration in many places and sometime in the last year or two was told about Alfie Boe and the song Bring Him Home from Les Miserables. I have seen “Les Mis” at the Palace Theatre, London with good friends and my best friend Rosemary. I recall the event well, enthralled […]
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Tags: Absent Family and Friends, Alfie Boe, Bring Him Home, Home, Les Miserables, Music, Palace Theatre, Soundtracks