pferguson | May 7, 2017
Echo 1 Finding Tales within the Mortar The days turn warm and the flowers come out sharing their colours for all of us who walk by, as steadfast pollinators dance between petals. Their steady hum another song to this ear. I watch as a robin on duty, fleet of foot, tilts its head towards the […]
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Tags: David Lean, Echo, Echoes, Film, François Ozon, Frantz, Imagry, James Gray, Lawrence of Arabia, Lone Scherfig, Mortar, Storytelling, The Lost City of Z, Their Finest, Vision
pferguson | August 29, 2015
Finding Water – Finding Story When I was young, some forty years ago, I came to British Columbia and lived near a place that my maternal family had called home since the 1860s. Having lived in many places, across Canada and overseas, this new place of generational connection was foreign to me. Yet I wanted […]
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Tags: 16th Canadian Machine Gun Company, ANZACS, Collections, Exhibits, Family, Fear of God Films, Film, Film History, Gallipoli, Generations, Great War, Histories, Leadership, Magic, Passchendaele, Russell Crowe, Saving Private Ryan, Storytelling, The Light Horsemen, The Water Diviner
pferguson | August 3, 2014
An Online Exhibit for Every Day of the Great War Marking 100 Years Distant Yesterday Theirs’ was a distant yesterday. These men and women who joined the campaign that took them to far and distant places. Towns and villages that would become all too familiar to other towns and villages as a timeline of chaos […]
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Tags: Darkness, Family, Great War, Home, Letters, Light, Machine Guns, Menin Gate, Nurses, Online Exhibit, Poperinghe, Postcards, Shrapnel, Somme, Storytelling, Wounded