pferguson | August 7, 2018
Thread Three We awake to the sound of church bells announcing that our day is to begin. Refreshed and reinvented, our breakfast and table furnishings delight the soul as I continue to refine a short piece for the Western Front Association. Our day takes us to the In Flanders Fields Museum where the current temporary […]
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Tags: Cloth Hall, In Flanders Fields Museum, The Last Post, Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Belgium), Zonnebeke Memorial Museum - Passchendaele
pferguson | August 6, 2018
Thread Two The moth flies in erratic fashion fleeing the notes of multiple bugles at the Menin Gate Memorial tonight. Many visitors are here this fine and warm evening armed with cameras and children held aloft for better views. What is it that they have come to see? Following the ceremony, the bugles rest, and the […]
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Tags: Elders, Family, Lady Haig Poppy Cross, Remembrance, The Last Post, Youth, Ypres (Belgium), Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial
pferguson | September 21, 2017
Expressions On Their Faces The wheels begin to roll earlier today, across the cobbled back streets towards the Groote Markt and on through the Lille Gate. We are headed south of Ypres past Bedford House towards the St. Eloi Craters. The route today is almost a re-creation of our first visit to the Salient. At […]
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Tags: Bedford House, Chester Farm, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, CWGC Cemeteries, Iron harvest, Menin Gate, pipers, Remembrance, Spoilbank, St. Eloi Craters, The Last Post, The Last Post Association, Ypres, Ypres-Comines Canal