_ 22 Sunday, September 17,1995 ~

‘ Eleanor
| Godley |

vintage years

_ ‘THE MOON brought this
: column on. No, i haven’t been
bewitched, although this last
‘fat phase has been absolutely |
| wonderfully beautiful, and if I
-hadn’t seen so many moons :
_ already it might have got to .
"me. . i
It's stil making a ‘stab atc com-:

; “manding the sky, but now its periph- © :

eries are under attack. When a moon
.” gets lopsided it's described as gib-»
~ bous, lovely word...“

- Inevitably its presence brought to

an ‘my inner eye the skies of my. youth,

’~ “in the North, where stars were illim-
itable and the. full moon lit the > night

like day.:There were no stré

to interfere, we could see thousands
Of stars in the'sky,-which’ were glori-
ously, brilliant with all the constella-
tions easily traced, Quite without «

nena of the northern lights.
~ An bonus lay in the absence of

machines, which allowed us to hear’.
those same lights rustle'as they con-."_
:, Stantly shifted in the'sky. Icy cold."
they always looked, awesomely daz-.

cling, Only’ once - -—‘on the eve of *:
Easter in 1937. did we’ see them:
show rose and violet and gold, .

spread from one side of the horizon a
‘o the other. It'was a display worthy *-.
of the most magnificent stage, but it.

was lavished on the stump farmer,
his wife and i who stood awed on

are.

North Shore News

that Good Friday eve.

I was living with them in their lit-
tle log house and teaching their chil-
dren plus half-a-dozen others in the
schoofhouse in Sylvan Glade. The
wife, who had a nice English
upbringing, had the pleasure of nam-
ing the community, before a fire

‘ burned all the glade for miles

around. Thus there was nothing for
miles around to impinge on the fan-
tastic displays that we enjoyed night-
ly, but especially i in the winter
months. a
Once the days begin to lengthen

. at that latitude they take more than -

their share, and so from May till

‘September it is light until three

o'clock in the morning and briefly

“dark then till cock-crow, The air was
so still in those old days, remember?
So clear, unruffled by sounds of traf-

fic (after all, who had a car?)

-. There were some in the towns.
My stepfather had one because he
was in charge of the government's __
highways, and it was a great benefit
for me because he'd bring the car as
far as the snow would allow before |
Christmas and Easter breaks, and my
landlord would use the horses and...
the farm sleigh to haul me out to

“meet him.

My little holiday would mean a

bath i in a lie-down tub'and some- .
"thing besides moosemeat for dinner,

.. both cause for tejoicing. Dectors had,
., ears too, anid'some others were seen

. .” from time to time, though not out in

7 the bush, where novice school- -marms :

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spent their apprenticeships. .

Quiet lay all over our world when
we were growing up. Once the sun
went down the few noises that were
made in the winter air, tike the
gramaphone at the skating-rink.

could be heard easily all over town. =

Ours wasn't much of a rink when I
was a kid. We paid maybe 10 cents
after school for an hour of skating in
interminable circles. Dimes didn’t
grow on trees — as J was frequently

“reminded — and I was never there

often enough to achieve the smooth |
grace I yearned for.
There were fourcormers to negoti-

p t ,

ate, each of which came at me too
fast. The best times for me were
when some youth would take my:
arm and somehow support, and at’
the same time propel, me into skat-
ing lovely smooth res. He'd soon
tire of the haul and [’'d be back cling-
ing to the boards. /

At least one of those young
skaters achieved international fame.
Boxcar Thompsoa’ practised on that

‘rink and any other body. of ice he

could find, and because he earned

his sobriquet fairly — he wasn't any ...
taller than I but he’d have made four

of me bundled together — he, was a

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Vancouver. Trade &. .

Convention Centre moe

“Atrip ip for

- bureaus, ‘tour opstators,
resorts’ around the world
_Insider: i formation on the Caribbean:

magnificent, impenetrable. joalie and *
-the hockey-world was glad of him
for years,”

Today in Prince George there’ sa

: Coliseum, the Cougars of the °

Western’ Hockey League, and.a ‘new
Multiplex that is about to be opened
I'll bet nobody in that town could
imagine biking along ‘the road to’
South Fort George to scrape the».
snow off the Hudson's Bay slcugh
and gathér enough wood for a bon-

‘fire for a skating party on the hight
of a full moon.

__. The North is getting ‘soft: ri
have to ask if they still-have stars.

alslings hovels and

* from. pasaports| to ine

eo Scores of prizes.

Including cs air.

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