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ï - ¦ I *s* h% i ¦ i -V- mm* ?>?m m -x ' .«y Vi* is m Hi ?«F*** - j ;., .¦ iN| Àpül 13 2-TOWNSHIPS WEEK-FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1984 ‘The French Song’ tops six million for Lucille Starr Even non-francophones throughout North America and Europe are likely to recognize the opening lyric: Quand le soleil dit bonjour aux montagnes .The French Song, a traditional ballad arranged by Lucille Starr, has sold more than six million records since its release 20 years ago.As recently as last year, Starr received her second gold record in the Netherlands for sales of more than 50,000 copies.Starr, a native of the St Boniface, Man., has not recorded anything to equal the song’s popularity.“It’s hard to explain,” she says, “but there are certain hits you can never copy.I don’t know that I could ever have a hit as lasting as The French Song.” Country Music c ¦ NORMAN WEMU R It’s as taras you can go.Cela n'est arrive qu’une seule fois.L’homme.La musique.Le film.Maintenant,ça recommence.Musique inie»pfètee pot mtNI tlAKA MtCHAUMMOCU'J DONNASUMMja lAUfVA PHANIOAN K!M CARNfS John Travolta sramniiuE Cinéma CAPITAL 59 King est S65-QTTI 4—TOWNSHIPS WF]EK—FRIDAY, APRIL Pi, 1984 Germany 1983 — Far too much of a good thing As I mentioned last week, the 1983 harvest in Italy was, for the most part, nothing to write home about.For a different set of reasons entirely, 1983 in Germany will also be one of mixed blessings.For the growers the year will be remembered as one that caused as many problems as it cured.For a start, an error in prun-ning and a warm, dry fall created an abundance of grapes.Normally one would question why this could be conceived of as a problem, but following the 1982 record harvest, this abundance created a market glut that will likely remain for some time to come.Less than half of the 1982 production has been sold leaving many wine producers strapped for cash and physically unable to handle the latest bumper’ crop.This doesn’t necessarily mean that consumers will benefit from Wine Bits By TIMOTHY BELFORD producers trying to sell off their extra stock at reduced prices.As a matter of fact, a concerted effort is being made by almost all wine producers to stockpile every barrel and bottle possible.While holding on to their wine is a risky business, selling it at greatly reduced prices could mean disaster for many firms.On the bright side, the quality of this year’s crop seems to be on the good side of excellent.Some have even compared it to the highly successful 1975.Plenty of warmth and sunshine resulted in a high sugar level in the must and a corresponding increase in the amount of Kabinett and Spatlese produced.On the whole, initial analysis would indicate that the 1983 will be well-balanced and full tasting.The best reports come from the Moselle region where many vi neyards benefited greatly from the fine weather while at the same time avoiding the effects of the prolonged drought which covered most of Europe during the summer.Not that I wish them any harm, but eventually it would be nice to see German producers forced to release some of their huge stock at a reduced price.With summer coming, a pleasant glass of Rhine wine on a hot summer day sounds just about right.Cheers! » • •i >s ,sk«^Vv,« The wines of the Rhine were copious if not spectacular in 1983 Indian art exhibition spans 7,000 years of history TORONTO (CP) — A bicentennial exhibition of Indian treasures at the Art Gallery of Ontario is built on the novel theme that the objects are art in their own right, not just artifacts.From the Four Quarters, one of the largest exhibitions ever organized by the gallery, brings together Ontario Indian art rounded up from more than 50 Euro-pean and North American galleries, museums and collections.It covers nearly 7,000 years from 5000 BC to 1867, the year of Confederation, and ranges from an ancient Human Effigy Head — really a flat pebble with a smiling face etched on it — to Indian souvenir art for tourists of the Victorian era.The show, which runs to May 20, also includes a wide array of European art, particularly pain-tings and sketches, which complements and enhances the Indian works.CITIES HELP OUT In honor of the province’s 200th birthday, about a dozen Ontario cities have loaned paintings.There is a magnificent portrait of Sir John A.Macdonald loaned by Kingston, for instance, and a portrait of the young Queen Victoria from Toronto’s collection.Even a century ago, Niagara Falls was a mecca for artists and there are scores of sketches, watercolors and oils of the famous waterway.But much of the treasury of Indian art was ‘‘lost through dispersal” to Europe and elsewhere, says Joan Vastokas, professor of anthropology at Trent University in Peterborough, and now has been borrowed back from institutions in France, England, Scotland and various states and provinces.It is a tragedy, she says, that so little research and study has been done on Indian art, but she feels this exhibition will mark “a new beginning in the study of art history.” ‘‘We know so little and have not taken Indian art seriously,” said Vastokas, who worked on the exhibition with Dennis Reid, the gallery’s curator of Canadian historical art.In their introduction to the accompanying catalogue they say the old categorization of native North American art as primitive, static and without documented history “has unfortunately persisted into the 20th century.” STILL SEPARATED Even today, they say, some scholars and museum administrators think the proper place for native art is in museums or in separate collections removed from traditional art.The more than 400 objects on display chart the artistic development of the land that is now known as Ontario and are rich in color, style and inventiveness.At the beginning of the exhibition, for instance, is a priceless collection of pipes, carved in human and animal forms, and which are exquisite objects of art, not just utilitarian objects that have survived as artifacts.There is also an 1814 birch-bark canoe, made to mark the War of 1812, which may seem to the layman as the model for millions of mass-produced souvenir canoes still being turned out.But Vastokas sees it as much more — an “historic sculpture.” Another exhibit is a broad wampum belt made of shell beads and commissioned by the Jesuits as a symbol of agreement to permit Indians to accept missionary teachings.MORE COLORFUL Some of the most eye-catching works, much of it in brilliant Victorian motifs, came after the Eu- ropeans brought beads to Indian craftsmen.These were more vividly colored than the earlier porcupine quills, feathers and shells.The European beads fed the vast output of goods for tourists at a time in the mid-1850s when the traditional fur industry was in decline.A rather spectacular exhibit is a Metis coat made of hide and decorated with quillwork and paint, loaned by the Royal Scottish Museum of Edinburgh.One of the most arresting of the European paintings is an 1805 portrait of the great American-born chief, Joseph Brant, a Mohawk who led his followers on the side of the British during the 18th-century wars.A commanding figure in a scarlet robe, the painting is on loan from the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa and is also being used on posters and post cards to promote the exhibition.Diver has seen under it all VICTORIA (CP) — John Stoneman lear ned to scuba dive 22 years ago to supervise an underwater sequence of a war film he was directing.Now a 43-year-old veteran of 8,500 recorded dives, Stoneman is considered one of the best 40 or so photographers who specialize in underwater filming.He has dived all around the world — from the coral reefs of the Bahamas to the waters below the Arctic ice.Stoneman, in Victoria recently to present three of his films, spends 10 months a year filming with his wife and co-producer, Sarah, for his Toronto-based company, Mako Films Ltd.In 10 years the company has produced 80 to 90 films, but only a few in Canadian waters.“It’s 10 times more difficult to get financial support for films about Canadian waters,” he said in an interview.“The world network is not terribly interested in cold, dark, green waters.Yet the West Coast of Canada has some of the richest marine environment anywhere.” He ranked Powell River, B.C., as among the top 25 diving spots in the world.“I thought the marine life was absolutely stunning.You don’t have to be in a coral reef to see excellence.’’ RIGORS WORTHWHILE Stoneman said the rigors of filming in the Arctic, where he dives “with a solid roof on top,” are worthwhile.“We see things in the Arctic that are mind-blowing experiences.Two years ago I saw a jellyfish with 30-foot trailing streamers.” The work is demanding and has an element of danger, but Stoneman said “most problems divers get into are situations caused by us, not the marine environment.We don’t really have the problems you saw in Jaws.” Nevertheless, Stoneman said he’s been in contact with the most notorious of underwater creatures.“I’ve had sharks on the front of my camera lens.Very few sharks attack human beings.The only animals I shoot from a cage are (Great) white sharks.” Stoneman has done work for Hollywood movies —- he filmed parts of Dead Zone — but his own films tend to be more like Jacques Cousteau documentaries that take his concerns about the environment to people in 25 countries.“Oceans are the largest open sewers in the world.If we want to hide it, we dump it in the ocean.” Environmental policies in Canada are generally good, he said, “but unfortunately the decisions are based on the economy and votes, not environmental concerns.” But Stoneman is optimistic about the environmental future.“I’m quite sure sense will prevail eventually.People want to get out and touch a rose or see a bear.” TERRY MAURICE 9 a.m.-2 p.m.LAWRENCE LANGEVIN 6 p.m.-ll p.m.THE INCREDIBLE AM TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1984—5 The hundred-year magic of Brigadoon comes to town By Timothy Belford LENNOXVILLE — Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe together produced a considerable body of theatrical and musical delight but the two were perhaps at their lyrical best with Brigadoon.Local audiences will have the chance this month to revisit Lerner and Loewe’s misty Highland glen when the Townships Theatre group presents this romantic tale of young love and ancient legend complete with the skirl of the pipes and the swish of the kilt.To refresh your memory, Brigadoon is a village which has the disconcerting habit of only appearing for one day in each century.As luck would have it, two young Americans — Tommy Albright (played by Ken Tomlin) and Jeff Douglas (played by Nelson Go-nyer) — pick that very day to find themselves lost in the self-same hills that surround the village.Things become a tad complicated when Tommy falls in love with the beautiful Fiona MacLaren and finds himself with the unenviable task of having to choose between life as he knows it and a once-a-century love affair with Fiona.Meanwhile Tommy’s friend, Jeff, takes an equal shine to a young maid named Meg Brockie.The entire event is tinged with gloom when one Harry Beaton, rejected by Fiona’s sister Jeannie, threatens to ruin everything, and Tommy decides to return to the Unted States — unable to commit himself completely to Fiona.With a cast of more than fifty, Brigadoon is an ambitious undertaking for the newly-formed Townships Theatre which will use the once-popular Broadway play as its first presentation.Musical director, John Pille, and stage director Nelson Gonyer add their considerable experience in amateur theatre however, and several Lennoxville Players alumni will undoubtedly bolster the moral of the novice cast.One particularly happy addition to the local theatre scene, is the arrival of Tammy Cowhard who tackles the role of Fiona with considerable enthusiasm and a lovely voice as well.Publicity director, Bruce Patton, thinks the arrival of a second amateur theatre group in Lennoxville can only be seen as a plus.“Neither group is going to hurt the other.When this group gets its feet wet they’re going to probably join the Lennoxville Players,” he says.Since the new group carefully scheduled its own production to avoid any conflict with the Players, Patton is probably right.The big winner however, will likely be devotees of amateur theatre throughout the region who can now look forward to an extra bit of entertainment to fill that gap between the Jeff Douglas(played by Nelson Gonyer) and Tommy Albright (Ken Tomlin) must choose between the magic of Brigadoon and the reality of home.closing of the winter season and the opening of North Hatley’s Piggery.Performances will be at 8 p.m.Thursday, Friday and Saturday, April 26,27 and 28 at the Alexander Galt Regional High School auditorium.Tickets can be purchased in advance at the Sherbrooke Hospital gift shop, G.L.Beaulieu's grocery and The Addition.Musical director John Pille Doug Grant gets encouragement and practice ^ w '# #1 ?3x3 » #¦/*> L/ff/ér 0 * hi Harry Beaton's (Doug Grant’s) death threatens to ruin Brigadoon Actress’s cartwheeling days over LONDON, Ont.(CP) — Elaine Wood can do almost everything she did 20 years ago, “except, of course, cartwheels and who wants to do cartwheels at my age?” The veteran actress of Stratford, Ont., who recently had a starring role in a segment of the CBC television series Seeing Things, doesn’t let age slow her down Being healthy and physically fit is of prime importance to anyone interested in an acting career.A while ago, Wood did three segments in a series called Bizarre.The producers had specified to her agent that they wanted an older woman who could fall, and not many older people can fall without breaking something.SHE DID IT Wood has always believed in taking care of her body, and she was able to demonstrate it when asked “Can you fall?” — she fell.The answer: “That’s fine.You’ve got it.” “And you have to have stamina and be flexible with your time,” she said.Sometimes, the actress is on the set at 4:30 a.m.; other times she has had to work all night.Wood has done 14 television commercials.For Bell Canada in the Get That Long Distance Feeling spot, she was an old woman sitting and fishing.Her latest commercial was for the meat marketing board, and before that she did one for Kraft cheese.Wood, who moved to Canada from England, turned to professional acting in 1969.She subsequently moved to Stratford where she played a comedy sketch called Cor Blimey at the Avon Theatre, followed by a part as a prison matron in Measure for Measure.IN OTHER ROLES Since that role, Wood, although not currently involved with the Festival Theatre, played in other Shakespearean roles in Romeo and Juliet and As You Like It.While jobs aren’t lined up knee deep on the horizon, there is plenty of work to keep her busy.“Roles for older actors and actresses aren’t as competitive as for those young things, but that doesn’t mean the competitiveness isn’t there.” She said she has “a face audiences don’t forget,” but neither do the people who do the casting.Whether in a blonde wig, shimmering green dress, or in leotards, Wood brings life to the parts she plays.No one cares if she is 51 or 91.DANIEL COULOMBE BOB BOISCLAIR Weekends Weekends THE INCREDIBLE AM 6—TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1984 Brando passes 60 milestone with a threat to return LOS ANGELES (Reuter) — Marlon Brando passed a landmark April 3 behind the barred gates of an estate protected by an elaborate video system and dotted with signs reading, Trespassers will be Destroyed.The landmark — his 60th birthday.The method actor who brought a mumbling, inarticulate style of fine acting to the screen is a lot thicker round the waistline than young Stanley Kowalski he portrayed in A Streetcar Named Desire and the frustrated dockside boxer in On the Waterfront.His jowls are heavy and his thinning hair is white.But Brando, who received between $3 million and $5 million for being on the screen less than 20 minutes in Superman and millions more for a 30-minute appearance in Apocalypse Now, is said by friends to be preparing for another brief and lucrative screen appearance.“He thinks acting is pretty stupid, but it pays him well,” said Brando’s 22-year-old son, Miko Brando.LEFT ISLAND Brando, who shuns interviews and seldom appears in public, has left his island paradise in the Pacific for the heat and smog of Los Angeles to be close once more to the studios.“People still ask him, ‘Are you really Marlon Brando?’ but to me he is just a man,” said Miko Brando, who works as a security guard and is a close friend of singer Michael Jackson.“We watch football together on television and he reads a lot,” said the younger Brando, whose mother was the actor’s second wife, Mexican actress Movita Castenada.“He is a quiet man who do js not want to be bothered.“He is not the film star type, but he has a lot of people to support,” added Miko, who lives in an apartment close to his f ather’s Los Angeles estate.Friends said Brando probably celebrated his 60th birthday by starting yet another diet program.“Every now and again he feels the need for money, and there is always a Hollywood studio waiting to put his name up in big lights again,” said one friend.He said when Brando and Jack Nicholson were making The Missouri Breaks, they greeted each other every morning with: “Another day, another million dollars.” For his role of the Mafia chieftain in The Godfather, Brando re- ceived a fee of $3.5 million and a share of the profits which has brought him six times that amount.He collected $3 million but little critical praise for his role in The Formula, in which he again was off the screen more than he was in the film.“He plays chess badly, the bongos drum a little better — but he is extremely good at making Hollywood deals,” an agent said.Brando has a business agent, but no longer keeps one of the symbols of Hollywood stardom, a press agent.“When Brando is in the market, people come to him,” the agent said.Off the rack just won’t do VANCOUVER (CP) — Phillip Clarkson would no more dress in something off the rack than a chef would bring a cheese sandwich for lunch.Clarkson, a 31-year-old theatrical costume designer, can turn a horse blanket into Italian designer pants and old window drapes into an English restoration-period gown.He does costumes for about 12 shows a year for various theatres.Clarkson, over six feet tall, showed up for an interview in a loose belted shirt that was more like a monk’s cowl.It was in a color he described as “I don’t know —- burl ap ?” He looks like a futuristic angel.His face has a child like sweetness and calm.He sweeps his red hair up in feathery wings and has the blondeyebrows of a Golden Labrador pup.AMONG THE BEST British actress Susan Williamson, who now lives in Vancouver, wore some of his massive creations for a production of She Stoops to Conquer and says his work is comparable to the best she’s seen in England.“It should be on permanent display,” she said.In She Stoops, the costumes, with their sofa-like hoops and panniers, slightly bent historical truth but worked for drama.Everything about the costumes smirked — perfect for Oliver Goldsmith’s farce that ridiculed the citified airs of the provincial English gentry.Especially remarkable were the wigs.“We took scrawny ones and puffed them up with pillows of fibre-fill,” Clarkson said of the exaggerated piles of hair.Clarkson says he has been interested in clothing since he was 16.“I was batiking cloth for a local designer and I had girls working for me.Here was this third-world rag trade going on in my mother’s basement.I guess it was awful stuff — flower power and all that.Finally, my mother put her foot down.She got tired of the smell of wax.” LEARNED TO SEW Clarkson was the first male in his high school to want to take sewing.He had even more trouble getting into the University of British Columbia’s home economics department but he got to take pattern-making there and put himself through school by sewing for the university’s theatre.In 1975 he graduated with a bachelor of fine arts degree.His first professional job was producing 22 robes for the Julius Caesar assassination scene at Vancouver’s Playhouse Theatre.Then he got a job at CBC as assistant costume designer, “breaking down” Bruno Ge-russi’s endless brand-new jeans for The Beachcombers.After several CBC projects, he went on to establish his own design store.When that eventually folded, he went into costume design for the theatre.When the Playhouse decided to do Amadeus, Peter Shaffer’s play about the rivalry between Mozart and Salieri, “they said the designs are due yesterday,” Clarkson said.“Fortunately, I’d just finished She Stoops, so the period was similar.” 1 5lsages SSW»- FOLLOW ^ THE YELIOW a sjq ROAD.SAVE $25 to $200 off your next vacation! 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OQU*5' ‘Arranged by Jeeves Travel TOWNSHIPS WEEK-FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1984—7 , Ever wonder about Mark MacGuigan’s middle name F or those of you who aren’t part of that continuing round of pleasure otherwise known as the Liberal leadership race, John Turner — a man who is developing a severe groin problem from straddling the linguistic fence — was in Montreal Wednesday to spread (in this case an apt term) the good word.Turner has been suffering at the hands of the media recently for espousing a language policy that has more sides to it than a Rubric’s cube.On one hand, he explained to members of the French-language press that he supported the philosophical basis of Bill 101.Later that day he took Alliance Quebec’s Eric Maldoffs hand in his own.fixed him with those steely blue eyes and pledged to continue supporting efforts by Quebec’s English-language minority at regaining linguistic equality.Turner is also famous for stating that language is a provincial concern while maintaining his support for the federal Liberal policy of a bilingual Canada.It’s also interesting to note that Canada’s most prominent schizophrenic has pledged to provide “imaginative and responsible” government.It would seem he at least has the first part down pat.Speaking of Canada's answer to the Silver Dome, Turner’s glad-handing event was called The Wonderful Wednesday and was designed to copy Brian Baloney’s successful pre-pre-candidacy announcement that drew 4,000 to to the Queen Elizabeth hotel a year or so ago.Turner supporters only managed to round up 2,000 of the party faithful however, and this group didn’t include Record editor Charles ’I could have sworn the invitation said 8 p.m.’ Bury or reporter Timothy ‘let’s stay for a drink anyway’ Belford.Our dynamic duo apparently got their wires crossed and arrived just in time to say good night to the departing crowd.No one could accuse Turner organizers of trying to manipulate the media — oh no ! Just because members of the fourth estate received a written invitation to attend a Who’s who By TADEUSZ LETARTE ‘spontaneous’ media scrum Thursday morning, people think the whole thing was planned! Have you stopped to wonder what Mark MacGuigan's middle name is?Given the fact the other leadership hopefuls are named John Turner, John Roberts, John Munro, Jean Chrétien and Donald Johnston, 1 wonder.The recent election of lawyer François Gérin as Conservative standard bearer in the riding of Megantic-Compton-and the other place in the next election, must really have MP Claude ‘My constituents won’t be fooled by cheap popularity' Tessier worried.Breaking all precedent, Tessier interupted his nap and rose to speak during a House of Commons committee meeting earlier this week.Reports of the event remain sketchy, however, Tessier apparently questioned cabinet minister Herb Grey concerning government waste.Tessier, an acknowledged expert of the subject, was unavailable for further comment and is reported to be resting from the ordeal.An interesting item from our German friends reports that the government has banned a video game called Lover Boy.The game, which features a naked man pursuing four women, gives points for each successful rape.Apparently, some over zealous bureaucrat was unable to see the inherent humor in the situation and insisted the game be banned.Next thing you know they’ll want laws banning hate mail and child molesting.The nerve.Le P'tit gars de Winston's Dateline 1991 : Aging Expos star Pete Rose was walked for the 7,000th time yesterday’s in a game against the Vancouver Raindrops.Rose, who is still one hit short of the 4,000 career mark, says he’s disappointed but hopes to get the big one in today’s home opener against the Tokyo Yankees.Recently rehired Yankee manager, Billy Martin says Rose doesn’t have a prayer.John Gielgud—‘Old, romantic and escapist’ LONDON (Reuter) —“Everybody I know now is either deaf or blind or gaga,” Sir John Gielgud says wryly as he ponders his approaching 80th birthday on Saturday.Erect, pink-cheeked and patrician, Gielgud himself is none of these things.After nearly 60 years at the top, one of the most famous Hamlets of the century and a recent Oscar winner, the British actor knight is in excellent form.He works regularly in films and television and hopes to return to the stage after a gap of six years.“But I don’t think there’s any point in going back unless it’s something I really feel I can do better than anybody else,” he says.“The National Theatre offered me Waiting for Godot, but I’ve never been able to come to terms with Beckett.I’ll never forget seeing it at the Criterion Theatre.It was so gloomy.People walked about in the interval as if stricken by plague.” DISSUADED FRIENDS Gielgud dissuaded Sir Alec Guinness and the late Sir Ralph Richardson from acting in the 1952 premiere of the play, a work by Irish Nobel prizewinner Samuel Beckett which is hailed by many as a masterpiece of modern drama.Born in 1904 with acting in his blood — his father’s grandmother was a famous actress in Poland and Ellen Terry, a great-aunt on his mother’s side, was longtime leading lady to the great Victorian actor Sir Henry Irving — Gielgud says he has an old-fashioned view of the theatre.1: gpp Singer Tommy Hunter receives a Mack beer mug from Pat Haggerty of the George Haggerty group as a souvenir of his visit to Sherbrooke.Shown above from left to right are Gilles Goyette, owner of Bar P'tit Nashville where Tommy Hunter performed, Pat Haggerty, Tommy Hunter, Pierre Lacroix of George Haggerty group, Jean François Rouleau from O’Keefe and Claude Laliberté.Watch for future events at the only REAL country place in Sherbrooke.1510aRADI0*SHERBR00KE te nouueau choiK fiudVimcent du lundi au vendredi, de 5 h 30 à 9 h 00.'"«sa tenucEsant 8—TOWNSHIPS WEEK-FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1984 WHAT’S ON Music Spring is here! Mikey bumped into this unalterable fact last weekend while searching his normal haunts for the true meaning of life (or a reasonable facsimile thereof) when there she was — The Queen of the North Hatley Summer People (talk about double deckers.Cal).Immediately persuant to this blinding encounter, Mikey s appe-hension of springtime was confirmed by the announcement that Mick Hall — the grand old man of Lennoxville rockers (c'mon Mick it’s only a joke .ouch!) will be appearing live and in person (all at once even) at Cal ‘who told you not to mention me first?’ Picken’s FL Hideaway.Mick will be performing all his hits from way back with the help of long-time cronies Jim Buck on bass, Chris ‘the kid’s gonna be an opera singer, for sure’ Griffith on drums, and Denis Lajoie on second guitar.This should be quite a gathering as you can expect all the old gang to don their orthopedic dancing sneakers and get out there, Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings.Nostalgia sure ain’t what it used to be.Rod Bray and The Countrymen are playing at Lennox-ville’s Army, Navy Air Force Veteran’s Unit 318 better known as The Hut this Saturday evening.This is a band that has been together for one long time and they just seem to keep on getting better.Music starts at approximately 9 p.m.and continues until it stops.Crossroads continues to play out at the Manoir Waterville (downstairs) with all their usual vim and vigor providing finely executed and well-chosen musical morsels for your delection on the weekends.They are a fine band playing in a fine club.The Carrousels Country Riders have also installed themselves quite firmly out at Waterville (or outskirts) in the Motel Bretagne where they entertain the regulars and visitors with some finely tuned country and western music every Friday and Saturday evening.Coupled with Gord MacDonald’s world-famous Shivering Bastards it makes a night worth remembering (’course, a couple of them things and you don’t remember squat, but.) Steve Powers and Ramblin' Fever are still belting them out in South Stukely at Station 88 every Friday and Saturday evening.The winter gloom seems to be lifting from out that way and folks are beginning to want to get out and honk.Keep it up, guys.The Cowansville Legion is having a big dance this Saturday evening and the music (pure C and W) is being provided by Jimmy and the Sunset Trio.This is the first time Mikey’s been contacted by the veterans out that way, so I take this opportunity to welcome the folks aboard — Welcome aboard folks.Creative little devil aren’t I?.The final in the series of Sons et Brioches concerts is taking place this Sunday at Salle Maurice O’Bready at 11 a m.with the folk troupe Les Arlequins.This is a very nice group of folk dancers who have come from humble beginnings only five years ago to be the Estrie region’s representatives at Quebec’s Salon de Danse.Now I know this belongs in the Theatre section but it’s too late and I want to mention them anyway, so bear with me.The troupe does folk dances from all over the world in authentic costumes and are delightful treat to both eyes.Chez René is bringing back one of their most popular regular acts Kinky Foxx this Monday to Wednesday, and funk fans should take the opportunity to catch these guys.They are a highly-energetic and exciting group of performers who give their all every time they step on the stage.The boys’ll be back next week too just in case this is the week your Aunt Minnie is in town.Down at The Maples in Stanstead this weekend Big Foot (named after my Aunt Minnie) will be putting on a show for all the folks down in border country.You all know these guys, but if you haven’t seen them lately it’s time to refresh the old memory In Ayer’s Cliff at the Shadey Crest hotel, the fine sounds of The Koncords provide the fun Friday and Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons for the rest of April.Intruders provide the hard-rock sounds in Sherbrooke’s Rock Palace this weekend, providing the tunes for the folk who can still summon up all the necessary energy from lithe and youthful bodies.I used to have one of them, she sure wised up quick though, lemme tell ya.At The Old Brick Church in West Brome this weekend, L’Ensemble Claude Gervais performs two concerts of music from the period of Jacques Cartier.This is the 450th anniversary of the founding of Quebec, after all (look ma I founded it.I have know idea how I ever losted it) and this promises to be a suitable occasion to celebrate.The performances are Saturday evening at 8, and Sunday afternoon at 3 at The Old Brick Church in West Brome and admission is miraculously free.This is the weekend of The Sutton and Region Hotels and Restaurants Association's spectacular Grand Party at Mt.Sutton Ski Chalet.The bash features your choice of Roast Pig or Roast Leg of Beef for grunts, and the Bob Harrison Blues Band for groans.This sounds like it has the makings of a wild one.Tickets are $12.50 per person and are avai- By MICHAEL McDEVITT lable at every hotel and restaurant in the Sutton area.Lastly, but definitely not leastly, in Burlington this week, on Thursday to be precise, the magnificent Bonnie Raitt will be performing in the wonderful Flynn Theatre right in the middle of downtown.Raitt is one of the best of a long line of performers of the blues-folk tradition and this lady can sing to bring tears to your eyes.She has it all and uses it all and it is a real mystery to me why she hasn’t become a super-superstar.The lady is the best, what more can I say.If you want tickets you better hop to it now, because the folks in Burlington are always keen on a good concert and this one is sure to be sold out.For reservations contact the Flynn at (802) 863-5966.doubling as a courthouse all too frequently these days, is featuring an interesting little display called A Festival of Opera.This show features photographs and posters of some of the world’s greatest operatic composers and opera houses as well as original manuscrips and letters by the hands of the masters.Tchaikovsky, Rossini, Strauss and my favorite Many More are featured.In Coaticook, the wonderful little Beaulne Museum presents its photographic exhibit called Protestant Churches in the Coaticook Region which takes a look at some of the area’s many protestant houses of worship.Including everything from the most humble chapel to large churches, the exhibit runs the gamut of architectural styles represented in the area and offers interesting insights into the connections between the theological aspects of the different protestant faiths and their architecture.The color photographs are the work of Jacques Courtemanche and were printed at Galt Regional All-purpose Secondary School known affectionately to its inmates as GRASS or Father of Confederation High (FOCH).Also at the Beaulne until the 5th of May is the exhibit The Musical Culture of Black Africa which features instruments and explanations of the importance of music in the Dark Continent.The show looks at music as rite, communication and healer, and there isn’t a Michael Jackson or Stevie Wonder album anywhere in sight.Right here in the mighty metropolis of Sherbrooke at the Sherbrooke Trust branch in the Carrefour de l’Estrie, the Collection en Art is featuring the work of Katevale’s own inovative Robert Bataille.Bataille’s pastel work is different and occasionally intriguing.Well worth a glance.The lovely and poetic watercolors of Carole Lafontaine continue to grace the moneyed halls of the Caisse Populaire de Sherbrooke-est and are a treat to both art lovers and the usually-indifferent.Entitled Visages d’Amour the paintings are gentle, encouraging portrayals not only of the subjects, but of the artist’s obvious appreciation of people and their interelationships.The Caisse dominates the corner of King and Bowen streets in Sherbrooke and is worth the side-trip.Theatre Exhibitions Well it’s the middle of the month again, which means there are very few new exhibits taking shape, so Mikey will reel off some of the more interesting shows presently happening in the area, and to prove my point I will begin with — what else — brand new shows.Out in Sutton this weekend, Arts Sutton is featuring an exhibit of Members’ Artwork which is really in its second week but Mikey forgot to mention it last week ’cause he’s an idiot.Anyway, the many talented members of this fine arts promotion network have arranged some of the finest of their copious output of oil paintings, watercolors, photography, prints, batik etc.for the perusement (don’t write in and tell me its not a word, it’s a word now — half perusal, half amusement: perusement! ) of the masses.The exhibit is on display this weekend and next.Galerie Arts Sutton at 8 Main Street is open to the public from 11 a m.until 5 p.m.on Saturdays and Sundays.Saturday is a good day for Arts Sutton as tomorrow evening at 7:30, noted Knowlton artist John Muhl will deliver a lecture entitled Anatomy of a Painting.In his talk Muhl will detail technical points of the art of painting including materials and their reactions to manipulation.Muhl holds masters degree from the Berlin Academy (the one in Germany not New Hampshire).I can hardly wait til the sequal Painting of an Anatomoy Just to make my original point even stronger, there’s two new shows out in Arthabaska at the Muséé Laurier beginning Sunday, the first being the popular Homage à Ti-Blanc Richard put together by the Léon Marcotte Centre and Courthouse, the exhibit is a loving reminiscence of the life and times of one of Southeastern Quebec’s best-loved sons, a musician of talent, vitality and humour.Ti-Blanc ruled the airwaves of the region for many years, and packed concert halls first in Quebec and eventually even in Paris as his brand of Quebec rural country music demonstrated what all the government legislation in the world can’t — That Quebec has a culture that is alive, vibrant and uniquely its own.Also beginning Sunday is a display of The Guy Bureau Collection: Old Quebec Pottery—1840-1920.Mr.Bureau lives in the region of St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, and has collected fine antique pottery for many years.His fine collection exemplifies the varied styles, uses and approaches to pottery that have developed in our province over the last 150 years.This collection brings forth some of Quebec’s finest handiwork.Both the pottery and Ti-Blanc shows run until May 13.The museum is open from 9 to noon and from 1:30 p.m.until 5 from Tuesdays to Fridays, and from 1:30 until 5 on Saturdays and Sundays.The Léon Marcotte Exposition Centre, which has been There are a couple of events taking place this week that are deserving of Mikey’s attention, the first of which is the t’humpLun LDrama ^Department’s production this weekend of Hot I Baltimore at Centennial Theatre in Looney ville.Hot I Baltimore is a devastating critique of the decline of American culture (you know, the fact that a Big Mac costs almost two bucks now, when they used to go for six bits and also the fact that Jerry Lewis has to go all the way to France to get a prize while here we make him hang around all them sick kids.Now, that’s gotta be pretty depressing for ol’ Jer’ seein’s how his job is to be funny and the only folks who appreciate him are people who don’t know what he’s talkin’ about).Anyway, the action takes place in a beat-up old hotel (the neon letter ‘e’ is burnt out) amidst the hassles that ensue when the colorful denizens must find new quarters before the executioner’s demolition ball comes.It’s a heady, funny play, and presents a challenge to student thespians.Having opened last night, the play runs tonight and tomorrow evening, and curtain-time is 8:30 sharp.Admission is a token $1.The play was written by Lanford Wilson and is produced under the direction of Ken Tomlin and stars a bevy of Sweet Young Things.At the University of Sherbrooke from Tuesday until Thursday in the Petite Salle of the Pavillon Centrale (whew) the anti-nuclear (weapons not families) theatre production Antigun is running.In French Antigun rhymes with Antigone which for the bootless and unhorsed among you is a famous Greek play by a famous Greek playwright (I really backed into that one didn’t I) and Antigun uses the theme quite well to direct its unequivocal message of disarmament, peace and other subversive ideas to the defenceless masses.The play takes place in Ottawa as furious government ministers try to defuse a disarmament protest before the arrival of their HRHs Charles and Diana, Prince and Princess of all the Welsh.The play ends in tragedy as the government resorts to drastic measures (which are even worse than war measures).The production is different theatrically and emphatic differentially and I think I’ll stop now.Also on Tuesday at U de S is the National Ballet of Poland or Slask which will perform at the Salle Maurice O'Bready beginning at 8.30 p.m.This company offers traditional Polish folk dancing at its finest and most exhuberant.More than 100 artists make up the company and good as they are, they are almost overwhelmed by the colour and elegance of the costumes.A good exciting show.Movies The folks at Merrill’s Showcase down in Newport have their usual three-way feature and kiddies matinée this weekend starting with Police Academy.For those of you TOWNSHIPS WEEK-FRIDAY, APRIL 13.1984—9 WHAT’S ON who have seen and laughed at Airplane I and II, the slapstick, slightly off-color humor of Academy is just the thing.The story of a police training academy and the individuals that will eventually be turned loose on an unsuspecting public.Academy is bound to leave you shaking your head in disbelief — or possibly looking over your shoulder if you live in Lennoxville or Ascot Townships.Honest Leo, I’m only kidding.The second feature is another R-rated number entitled Up The Creek and your guess is as good as mine.The final selection I can say something about since it is entitled Where The Boys Are which is a remake of a 1960s original.Its the wonderful, warm story of a group of girls who take their Easter break in Florida among 73,000,000 hyperactive teenage boys.The original is now a classic right up there with Beach Blanket Bingo and Surfin Sunday.Good luck.I’m sorry to say that I can’t make any comments about the matinée on Saturday except it is called Savannah Smiles and the ad says something about “.and love will never be the same.” The Cinéma Capitol is out to squeeze every drop of popcorn butter out of the teenage stone this week with a rerun of not one but two trendy winners.First we have Flas-hdance with Jennifer Beales — need I say more—followed by Staying Alive featuring someone called John Révolta.All my inherent prejudices aside, John Travolta does a credible job portraying a not too bright city kid whose ambition is to be a dancer.Then again, what’s the difference between that and a not too bright city kid whose ambition is to be an actor?The film does have some first-rate dance sequences and it’s made him a pile of money so be still my jealous heart.Over in Cowansville at the Cinéma Princesse, the management has decided to push the holidays number with both Where The Boys Are (see above) and Spring Break — which I understand is along the same lines.Clint Eastwood fans will be delighted to know that the man himself is back this week at the Carrefour with Sudden Impact.A lot of people complain about the unnecessary violence and impossibly macho image that Eastwood films portray, but if you treat them for what they are — pure fantasy — you may find them to your liking.Television Today is Friday the 13th, so Mikey isn’t even going to mention it.Instead I’m going to comment on tomorrow which is April 14th, 1984 which just happens to be Des Mckeon’s 153rd birthday.In order to help celebrate this disgusting event Vermont ETV is presenting for your enjoyment A Night to Remember.Now I can hear you asking ‘ What do Des and a night remembered — any night remembered — have in common?' Well, hang on, I’ll tell you.On that momentous April 14th 1912, Des was on board the tug Titanic with a bunch of other people with more money than brains (Des has equal amounts of both — none) celebrating his four score (that means 80 for all you guys who don’t know where Gettysburg is) when the old bucket made a bee-line straight for Davey Jones’ Locker on her maiden voyage.Des barely managed to escape with his life by pretending to be the wrinkled old grandma of an American millionaire.The movie recalls that night in a highly documentary fashion.Good watching, though.Happy 153rd you old fool.At 8 on Channel 12, Secrets of a Mother and Daughter portrays the problems that arise when a mother and her daughter (I might be wrong, it might be a daughter and her mother) both fall in love with the same man.Katherine Ross and Linda Hamilton star, and Michael Nouri is the homewrecking piece of beefcake.At midnight on Channel 6, Lee Marvin heads an all-star cast in The Dirty Dozen one of the 60’s great war flicks.Marvin plays a hard-core army type who offers hardened criminals a chance to get out of prison if they volunteer for a difficult mission behind German lines in WW II.This being an American movie, the monsters turn out to be a basically nice group of guys who all end up heroically battling the Hun to his knees.Charles Bronson, Telly Sava-las, Jim Brown and Clint Walker star in this example of a movie that doesn’t choose to sully its fine bomb, dismemberment, mutilation and blood scenes with any of that filthy sex (one never really does know what’s going on behind the barracks between Bronson and Brown, but if you really want to know, you ask ’em).On Sunday afternoon on CTV at 1:30 the once beautiful, now bountiful Elizabeth Taylor and the still beautiful, now bounciful Jane Fonda star in a film that got more attention for the fact that it was made in the Soviet Union than for its story line — The Bluebird.The story centres around a simple woodcutter and his children who are obsessed with trying to find the elusive bluebird of happiness.This movie cost around $14 million and brought in about $28.50 at the box office.At 2 on CBC The Glittering Crowns follows the fun and adventures enjoyed by the pompous asses that sat on the thrones of Europe in the early part of this century.At 8.30 on Radio-Québec, the Quebec based group Uzeb perform at the Montreal International Jazz Festival.This is an exciting young outfit that bridges the gap between jazz and rock styles and succeeds at it brilliantly.They are quite hot these days and seem to really please the crowds.At 9 on Vermont ETV Masterpiece Theatre presents Nancy Astor part 1, the story of the daughter of a genteel but impoverished Virginia family who goes on to become the first woman ever elected to the British House of Commons (from genteel to common, nice footwork) In the first epoi-sode, Nancy gets sent to a fine Boston school to be finished off.At 10, also on Vermont ETV The Unknown War looks at the War in the Arctic, particularly the Britain-to-Murmansk convoys which kept the Russians supplied so that they could keep on getting the sheets kicked out out of them by the Wehrmacht.The convoys were long, cold and dangerous missions and Stalin was so grateful for them that he wouldn’t let the crews off the ships while they were unloading.You really gotta admire a guy like that.On Monday at 8, Vermont ETV’s great series Frontline examines the situation in El Salvador.Unlike most American (and Canadian) El Salvador reports however, Captive in El Salvadore focuses on the American allies in the country — the conservative middle and upper classes who are struggling to keep the material and social superiority they have against the voracious appetites of the revolutionary peasants.At 9, Jill Clayburgh stars as an independantly happy woman whose life is turned upside down when she falls in love with a former sports celebrity.Yawn.It’s My Turn is on Channel 12.At 10, Vermont ETV examines U.S.— Soviet Relations: The First 50 Years, which talks about how the old pals have managed to get along in the 50 years of their mutual diplomatic recognition.On Tuesday at 8, CTV offers an inside look at The Making of Superman in which Lois Lane reveals what it’s really like to get it on with a guy who can .Whoops! wrong page.Ahem.This documentary gives us an inside look at the special effects, sets and other hard and sofware that made the filming of the 1978 classic possible.Mikey likes his version better.At midnight, CBC offers us the marvelous Sergeant York the supposedly true story of a nice, shy country bumkin who turns into one of the United States greatest heroes during WW I (the big one).Gary Cooper stars.Also at midnight on Channel 12 is something I think they threw in here just to screw Mikey up It’s called Birds Do It.Bees Do it and it features real live animals doing it wherever they happen to be at the time — just like the teenage couple I saw on the bus the other day.Anyway, I kid you not — a cinematic study of reproductive activity in the animal world.Why would I make this up?Finally, on Thursday at 11.30 on Vermont ETV, Anthony Quinn stars in a fictional account of the life of Barabbas the thief whose place on the cross was taken over by that nice Jewish boy from Bethlehem.Radio Tonight on Nightfall at 10:30 on CBC Radio, Walter Massey stars in Waters Under the Bridge.This story tells of the deep water that flows under a mighty bridge and the bones of its many vicitms.It also reveals the treasure of great wealth that also awaits anyone with enough chutzpah to overcome the evil that protects it.Tomorrow at 11.05 a.m on CBC Stereo (and on Sunday at 1.30 on CBC Radio) there’s something you really can’t afford to miss, an interview with one of the world’s most influential and meaningful personalities — Sonny Bono.Sonny is the man that turned Cherilyn La Piere into Cher and has not only survived the subsequent public wrath but has gone on to become a highly successful failure in his own right.Back in 1963 Sonny married Cher and began to look like a cave man, which earned the young couple all kinds of money.The couple eventually blessed the nation with their own TV show until she woke up and left him to become a solo nobody (Mikey does know she acquitted herself very well in Silkwood and has notched up stars in the appropriate boxes).Anyway, if you’re interested in what the old boy has to say, here’s your chance.At 2, on CBC Radio and Stereo The Metropolitan Opera presents Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd, based on the unfinished novel by Herman Melville) who brought us Moby Dick and its sequal Captain Highliner The production stars all kinds of famous fat people with loud voices.At 7.05 on CBC Radio The Ocean Limited features great jazz pianist Mose Allison in concert from a bar in Halifax.01’ Mose has been a major influence in the jazz and blues fields and this concert shows us how come, man, like y’know.Also at 7.05 on CBC Stereo that wonderful trip down memory lane Through the Ears of George Martin returns.In this series, one of the world’s greatest record producers recalls his life in the recording industry from the early days when Sir Adrian Boult ran EMI Studios all the way through the times he had a little luck producing a band called The Beatles (you know, the group Paul McCartney was in before Wings).Martin has worked with, encouraged and discovered some of the most respected names in music, and in this series he tells us all about it.Very good listening on all fronts.On Sunday at 4.05 CBC Radio repeats the second season of the popular series The Scales of Justice.In this program, John Down's Body, we look at the case of John Down who in 1959 was found dead on the ground beneath his bedroom window in Winnipeg.No charges were laid until 1976 when his widow, Katie who had married her lover Sandy Harper, accused the latter of the murder.Both old fogeys finally ended up being charged.Mikey remembers that one.At 7.05 on CBC Stereo, the new season of The Scales of Justice continues with Springflower.Kristine Linklater, a Northwest Territories ski champ, is accused of murdering her husband in the depths of the arctic wilderness (no.not Winnipeg).The Champlain Drama Department continues with its production of Hot I Baltimore tonight and tomorrow at the Bishop’s University Centennial Theatre.Tickets are available at the box office.: ' 10_TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1984 Travel___________________________________fiecortl Tides of the Bay of Fundy — a seascape spectacular Ever watch one hundred billion tons of briny water slowly making its way toward shore?Such a spectacular sight is pos-sible twice a day almost anywhere along the southern coast of New Brunswick, Canada’s Picture Province.This is where an incredible amount of ocean water presents itself in the form of the tides of Fundy, one of the most restless enigmas of nature.These tides surge from the open Atlantic through the rocky portals of the Bay of Fundy every 12 hours and 30 minutes, bringing with them water equal to the average 24-hour flow of all the rivers of the world.And that’s a lot of water no matter how you look at it.Vacationing families come to New Brunswick to enjoy its scenic beauty and all-season activity, its bilingual hospitality and to relax where there’s plenty of space, peace and quiet.Many come as though drawn by an invisible force and in response to an age-old urge—the pull of the earth’s tides.All marvel as the giant tides that can lift Fundy’s surface 11 to 15 metres (35 to 50 feet) come in so fast, especially in the eastern extremity of the bay, that the water can go up 30 cm (one foot) in seven minutes.During their visit the tides climb barnacle-crusted legs of wooden wharves in scores of communities along the jagged perimeter of the Bay of Fundy, swell tiny creeks, submerge reefs and sand bars, beaches and mud flats, and attack old Acadian dikes that have, down the centuries, zealously defended rich marshlands from the ravages of the sea.These tides have not only left their indelible mark on the people who inhabit Fundy’s coastal and island communities, but tangible evidence of an awesome power that manifested itself when the world began.Down the eons of time these tides have sculpted the Flower Pot Rocks at Hopewell Cape, quarried the echo caves at St.Martins and continue to program thedaily arrival and departure of the Tidal Bore of the Petit- codiac River.And just to show off a rather distorted sense of humor, the tides charge the mouth of the mighty St.John River so violently at certain times of the day that the rapids there retreat in disorder, causing them to reverse direction and forcing the river to flow backward.The action of the tides is felt as far as Federicton some 145 metres (90 miles) upriver.Ocean tidal action is common around the world but Fundy tides are the highest because of the shape of the bay.The tidewater comes in normally just as it does everywhere else when it enters the Bay of Fundy at its widest point.But the further up the bay it travels the more it changes, the water literally piling up as it moves up the bay.It is, in effect, squeezed by the ever-narrowing sides and the constant shallowing of the bottom, forcing the water higher up the shore.The tides reach a maximum 16 metres (52‘/a feet) at the bay’s eastern extremity.In each tide, magnified by the funnel shape, the volume of water exchanged is equal to a container measuring several billion cubic metres (yards).But that’s not all—a heavy gale (and Fundy battles many of these) may boost the height of the tide by several metres.Flower Pot Rocks is a perfect example of Fundy’s magnificent tides t V ' v ,4" M - Ancient garbage, the stuff of archeological discovery EDMONTON (CP)-Archeologists have discovered a prehistoric Indian site, one of Alberta’s earliest forts, and hundreds of 19th-century artifacts left by missionaries and fur traders in the Peace River area of northwestern Alberta.About a dozen stone flakes from stone-tool manufacturing were discovered near the Dunvegan Bridge beside the Peace River, says provincial archeologist Heinz Pyszczyk.A fragment of a two-sided flaked stone that could have been a pre historic Indian projectile point or hide scraper was also discovered near old Fort Dun-vegan, Pyszczyk said in an interview He said the stone tool could date from the early 18th century or be as much as 1,000 to 2,000 years old.Historic refuse, such as old bottles and tin can fragments, was also found around the St.Charles Catholic Mission, a few hundred metres east of the bridge and the former fort site.RUN BY OBLATES The mission, the first Roman Catholic church in northern Alberta, was operated by the Oblates from 1869 to 1903.Pyszczyk of the Archeological Survey of Alberta believes the area around the priest’s living quarters, where most of the artifacts were discovered, was a prehistoric Indian site.Old garbage, valuable to modern archeologists, was also found around the St.Saviour’s Anglican Mission that operated 1879-95.a few hundred metres west of the bridge and the old fort.Pyszczyk has found 400 to 500 fragments of fur trade artifacts at Dunvegan such as clay pipes, beads, ceramics, knives and glass.He also found a gun lockplate from a pre-1860 black-powder rifle and post 1860 rifle cartridges ranging from .30- to .45-calibre.The bones of bear, elk, moose, wood bison, muskrat, beaver, snowshoe hare, fish, waterfowl and upland game, eaten by residents, were also uncovered.HAS MANY THEMES “The valley itself is so promising because it has so many historic themes — from the fur trade to missionaries,” said Pyszczyk.He said the valley shows the development of the Peace River region — from first white contact with the Indians in 1805 to the arrival of the missionaries and to the start of modern agriculture in the late 1800s.Fort Dunvegan was built in 1805-06 as a major fur trading post by Archibald Norman McLeod of the Montreal-based North West Company.He named it after the McLeod clan’s family castle in its ancestral home on the Isle of Skye.The fort supplied meat to other posts and provisions for outfits taking furs east in the spring.It was important for its large gardens and eventually supplied other forts with surplus vegetables, mainly potatoes.“Dunvegan is one of the earliest settlements where we had agriculture with the fur trade,” said Pyszczyk.MAIN BASE Fort Dunvegan became the chief Hudson’s Bay Company headquarters in the Peace River region in 1821 after amalgamation with the North West Company.The fort was temporarily abandoned from 1825 to 1828 due to Indian unrest but again became Hudson’s Bay Company headquarters in the Peace district and controlled the regional fur trade for the next 50 years until animals dwindled.Pyszczyk said digging at the Anglican mission site last summer found remains of a wooden building.The site, which will be developed into a picnic spot, was examined to ensure that nothing historic was destroyed.Earlier excavations to determine the precise location of the first Fort Dunvegan uncovered palisade wails and fort foundations and buildings.“What surprised me was the degree of preservation of some of the building remains of the fort, ” said Pyszczyk.“Some wooden foundation logs were intact.” FORT WAS BIG The first fort, repla- ced in 1877 by a smaller one nearby, was found to be about 60 to 70 metres long on each side.Pyszczyk was able to determine the location of a few buildings such as the men’s barracks on the west side.Four palisade walls were uncovered at the west end of the site.The St.Charles Mission, built of hand-hewn timber, is now a museum.7® TRANS-OCEAN TRAVEL INC.66 King St.W.Sherbrooke, P.O., Canada Tel.: (819) 563-4515 SUPER SPECIALS OFFER !!!! 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TOWNSHIPS WEEK-FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1984-11 Travel Truman letters one of the many Smithstonian marvels "Dear Bess: This is a lonesome place.” The letter, written in a bold hand on pale green White House stationery and dated June 3,1945, is likely the first Harry S.Truman wrote as president of the United States to his wife.President for less than two months, he was feeling blue because Bess and their only child, 21-year-old Margaret, had left 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.for the summer and gone home to 219 North Delaware St., Independence, Mo.The letter is part of a treasure trove left behind by the president whose 100th birthday (May 8) is being celebrated this year.For years after his death in 1972, it was believed that Bess had burned most of his letters.But staff members of the Truman Library, taking an inventory of the Truman home in 1981, were astonished to find more than 1,200 letters spanning a half-century of American life in boxes stowed in closets, storage areas and the attic of the 19th-century Victorian house.Truman was, his daughter Margaret Truman Daniel once said, a “demon letter writer.” Over the years, when Harry and Bess were separated by the demands of farm life, war and politics, he wrote to her once a day-sometimes twice.Truman wrote constantly to the other women in his life as well-his daughter, mother, sister Mary Jane and favorite cousins, Ethel and Nellie Noland.Historians are excited by this epistolary gold mine.“There’s no better historical source than letters,” historian David McCullough says.McCullough, who is working on a comprehensive biography of Harry Truman, is delighted with the find.“We can be grateful to Bess for stalling Harry for almost a decade before marrying him.More letters!” Researchers who travel to the Harry S.Truman Library in Independence can now make the acquaintance of a certain 27-year-old Missouri farmer, who in January 1911 wrote to the young lady he was courting: “My dear Bessie: .I don’t think I’ll ever make much of a mark as a far- mer or anywhere else but sometimes I have to come across.” Some would say Truman’s whole life led him to the White House: Although he sometimes said he never held a political office he really wanted, a 1913 letter to Bess says otherwise: How does it feel being engaged to a clodhopper who has ambitions to be Governor of Montana and Chief Executive of U.S.He’ll do well if he gets to be a retired farmer.That was sure a good dream though, and I have them in the daytime, even night along the same line.Born in Lamar, Mo,r~Harry spent his childhood in Independence.At the age of 6, he had to wear glasses to correct his farsightedness.He began reading every book that came within his new-found sight.Through those familiar, roundish lenses, he spied 5-year-old, blue-eyed, golden-haired Bess in Sunday school and fell in love.Truman carried a picture of Bess and six pairs of glasses to war in France in April 1918.There he led men into battle, learned about the world and, like thousands of American young men who saw Paris, left the farm forever.From “Somewhere in France,” Truman wrote to Bess, “Paris is some town.” When Harry returned home, he and Bess were finally married, on June 28, 1919.High hopes of two army bud-dies opened the Truman-Jacobson Haberdashery in 1919.Post-war recession closed it in 1922.But dark days were brightened when Truman acquired a new correspondent-daughter Mary Margaret.In 1928, when she was four, he wrote: My Dear Little Daughter: I am so very pleased that you are writing your daddy every day.I hope you keep up the habit when you are a big girl.Elected presiding judge—an administrative position—of Jackson County, Mo., in 1926, Truman embraced public life and for a decade floated above the un-dertow of Boss Pendergast’s X tO* '-V'* Harry and Bess, 1919 .Vi 'Old fat Winston”, Truman and “Uncle Joe ' ¦ Nr .* V\ .SH Kansas City corruption.Sometimes he suffered headaches from the strain.He suffered, too, for his constituents during the Depression.He wrote to Bess in 1933: We are discharging some two hundred people and everyone of them arid all his friends will try to see me.I was sick last night after the session and lost my supper.A year later, he was elected to the U.S.Senate.On their wedding anniversary in 1935, he wrote to Bess: I am hoping to make a reputation as a Senator.But you’ll have to put up with a lot if I do it because I won’t sell influence and I'm perfectly willing to be cussed if I’m right.He made a national reputation as a dogged investigator of waste and wrongdoing in the national defense program.And in 1944, Roosevelt, planning to campaign for a fourth term, let it be known in a roundabout way that he wanted Truman as his running mate.Truman resisted, writing to Margaret a few weeks before the Democratic convention: “Hope I can dodge it.1600 Pennsylvania Ave.is a nice address but I’d rather not move in through the back door .” To Roosevelt’s emissaries, the Missouri senator responded: “Tell him to go to hell.” Roosevelt replied, “Well, tell him if he wants to break up the Democra tic Party in the middle of a war, that’s his responsibility.” Truman accepted, but he complained in a letter to Bess in August, “.the nomination was forced on me." Hours after Roosevelt died, on April 12, the new president wrote to cousin Olive Truman: “I’ve really had a blow.But I’ll have to meet it.Hope it won’t cause the family too much trouble.” He had a lot to meet.“Our present world begins with Harry Truman,” McCullough points out.“He had to make the most difficult decisions of any president of our century and held in his hands a vast global responsibility." Germany surrendered on May 7, and May 8, Truman’s birthday, became V-E Day.Two months later, the Big Three—Truman, Churchill and Stalin—met in Potsdam in conquered Germany to plan the shape of the post-war world.Small agreements were made, but the Cold War was fast approaching.“I went to Potsdam with the kindliest feelings toward Russia,” Truman wrote his daughter in March 1948.“In a year and a half they cured me of it.” The president couldn’t write to his family about what had to have been the loneliest decision of his life—the decision to unleash the atomic bomb on Japan in August 1945.But he never doubted the validity of the decision to drop the bomb, and, thus, in his view, to forestall the massive casualties on both sides resulting from an invasion of Japan.V-J Day brought not peace but challenge.Truman led America toward recognition of a new inter national responsibility.The Truman Doctrine of aid to Greece and Turkey was put into effect to halt a Soviet threat, the Marshall Plan was launched to rebuilding Europe, and NATO was created to shield the West from potential Soviet aggression.Political critics of his foreign policies would not stop him, Truman wrote his sister in 1947.“It is more important to save the world from totalitarianism than to be President for another four years." Still, he fought with every breath against heavy odds in the 1948 campaign.In spite of press, pollsters, politicians and pundits, Truman was confident that he would beat the Republican candidate, Thomas E.Dewey.In June 1948 he wrote his sister Mary, “We are going to lock ’em and lick ’em good ! ” He took his case to the people on a 31,739-mile, 355-speech whistle-stop tour, and his long-time advisor, Clark Clifford, can still remember the excitement of that journey.“As the campaign went on, people were drawn to this indomitable figure—his spirit and courage.Week by week, we sensed the crowds growing ever larger.” On Election Day, the man from Independence scored the most dramatic upset victory in American political history.Although Truman gave one hell of a whistle-stop speech and was the first president to make a nationwide television address, he always needed to write.He kept diaries, wrote memos, set down autobiography on hotel stationery and scribbled notes on restaurant menus.Through personal correspondence, he could let off steam about “high hats" (snobs), “striped-pants boys” (diplomats), “military brass” and the “sabotage press.” He could express private opinions about such public figures as “Uncle Joe” Stalin, who was “trying to fool the world,” or "old, fat Winston,” who was “windy” but “keen” nonetheless, or France’s General DeGaulle, whom he described as a “pinhead.” He could also keep his family, often far away, close.He exhorted them to write.Having so faithfully sown the seeds of communication-by-mail, the once-upon-a-time farmer was due a harvest.As the days of Truman’s presidency dwindled and, having decided not to seek re-election in 1952, he prepared to go home to Independence, the fruits of his labors began to arrive at the White House In his last letter from 16(H) Pennsylvania Ave., he wrote cousin Nellie; I have had a lot of fine letters from people I've never heard of and none of the mean sort.The public isn't sure what it has gained.The fear is that something has been lost.1 wonder.We’ll just have to wait and see.Sincerely, Harry 12—TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1984 Travel___________________________________fleconl Nova Scotia’s forts recall an earlier and violent age The battle scars are gone, but a patchwork of old and restored fortifications scattered along Nova Scotia’s peaceful and beautiful shores testify to centuries of bitter and bloody military conflict that helped turn the tide of North American history.It’s hard for the visitor to believe that this scenically captivating east coast Canadian province was for 200 years a battleground for European powers struggling for dominance in the New World.Today all that remains of those turbulent times are the old French and British forts, scattered about the province, restored as National Parks with manicured lawns, polished artifacts and delightful lookoffs that help create settings that seem inconsistent with their military purpose.Fort Anne, Fortress Louis-bourg, Halifax Citadel, York Redoubt, Ford Edward Blockhouse and Prince of Wales Tower have all become popular tourist attractions in Nova Scotia for both their scenic and historic qualities.By far the most impressive of the parks is Fortress Louisbourg on the eastern coast of Cape Breton Island, once the bastion of French power on the continent and now Canada’s largest historical reconstruction with almost one fifth of the original town and fortress built to its appearance prior to the siege of 1745.At that time a quickly organized band of New Englanders with British naval support overpowered the garrison following a 49-day siege that showed the weaknesses of the fort’s landward defenses.Louisbourg was returned to the French by treaty in 1748, but 10 years later a larger British force laid siege again, forcing capitulation before heading to Quebec where victory on the Plains of Abraham secured the continent for the British Crown.Following the second siege at Louisbourg, British troops demolished the fortifications to prevent a French return, and the area lay in ruins for more than 200 years.Restoration began in 1961 following the French engineers original blueprints and today reconstructed buildings include the fortress gates and Dauphin demi-bastion, the kings bastion and barracks, guardhouses, and more than thirty homes, storehouses, inns and cabarets.Several buildings contain exhibits that illustrate facets of life in the 18th-century fortress and guides in period costumes interpret the historic park as it was in the summer of 1744.At the other end of the province at Annapolis Royal is the site of another French fort — Fort Anne — built between 1702 and 1708 at the junction of the Annapolis and Allain Rivers to protect the Port Royal “Habitation” five miles downstream.The pallisades were never fully completed and the garrison suffered several attacks from New England raiders, the last once coming in 1710 when Colonel Nicholson’s expedition captured the stronghold renaming it in honor of Queen Anne and carrying the fort’s key off to Boston.Under British command Fort Anne managed to withstand six attacks made by French or Indians between 1711 and 1746 butin 1781 the garrison suffered an em-barassing defeat at the hands of pirates who attacked the town in broad daylight and looted several homes.Although the earthwork defences have survived, the only original buildings at Fort Anne are the powder magazine and the storehouse.The park also contains a museum, a reconstruction of the officers quarters built in 1797, containing exhibits of maps, ships, Indian culture and the natural history of the area.Even though the British had control of mainland Nova Scotia since 1713 they still had to deal with a large Acadian French population many of whom had settled along the Minas Basin where they had dyked the fertile bottomland for farming.To safeguard their overland communication route with the Bay of Fundy and monitor the nearby Acadian settlements the British built Fort Edward on a hill overlooking the Avon and St.Croix Rivers at a site now occupied by the present-day town of Windsor.Between 1755 and 1762 Fort Edward served as the centre for the deportation of about 1,000 Acadians who refused to ledge allegiance to the British crown.Originally the fort consisted of a blockhouse, barracks, officers’ quarters and storehouse.The blockhouse, the oldest such building in Canada, and the outlines of a ditch are all that remains of the original fort.Nova Scotia’s other forts-turned-parks are all situated in Halifax, the capital city with its magnificent 10-mile long harbor that got its start as a British garrison town in 1749.In the centre of the city is Halifax Citadel, a star-shaped hill top fortress with a commanding view of the harbor and downtown area.The circular roadway around the perimeter of the massive stone walls is open day and night and the frequent sight-seeing drives by visitors and locals make the Citadel Canada’s most frequently visited National Historic Park.Today’s Citadel, date in 1828, is the fourth one to occupy the site and although never tested by attacks it safeguarded British North American for over a century.Inside the fortress are a variety of exhibitions including one on powder magazines and gunpowder, a reproduced defence casement and detention cell, reproduced signal masts and an exhibit on communications.The Army Museum displays a variety of exhibits pertaining to the life of the everyday soldier, including uniforms, weapons, medals, recruiting posters and ‘battle souvenirs’.The Halifax Citadel is open year round and in the summer uniformed animators in period dress add a dash of color to the guided tours.As part of the extensive military operations that helped turn the tide of North American history, Nova Scotia’s old forts remain today as links to a fascinating past and await discovery by tourists who will find in them yet another colorful facet to a vacation in Canada’s Ocean Playground.Fort Anne, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia •o%- | -A ' WËËIÊ& s S- Turkish delight sweetens the allure of Greece’s Syros ERMOUPOLIS, Greece (CP) — ‘‘Lou-koumia! Loukoumia! Get your fresh Loukoumia now! ” Anybody who has taken a ferry that stops at the Greek island of Syros — and that’s almost anybody who's gone through the Cyclades in the central Aegean south of Athens — has heard this cry.It is the sales pitch of the Turkish Delight vendors who greet the ferry at Ermoupolis, Syros’s capital and chief port.They have about 20 minutes to sell their sweet sticky confection before the ferry sails off to another of the Greek islands They are colorful characters in white jackets lugging huge white baskets brimming with Turkish Delight and nougat.Syros is famous throughout Greece for its sweets, particularly the shim-mery Turkish Delight.SAIL DAILY Syros is easy to reach with daily inexpensive sailings from Piraeus.The trip takes about six hours and there are 14 other islands nearby including the ever-popular Mykonos and Delos, Tines, Paros, Naxos and Sifnos.Syros is usually the first port of call, but aside from the locals and some Greek and British tourists, few people usually get off here.So the harbor-side Loukoumia sellers do a brisk business.But freshness is all-important with the confection.So the best places to buy it are at the small factories that make it.That’s how the locals do it.Besides, Syros is well-worth a visit.And with more than 700 hotel beds and another 100 for rent in private homes — ranging in price from about $5 to about $20 a night — rooms are easy to find, even at the height of the tourist season.SMALL, LIVELY Syros boasts clean, uncrowded beaches, an active night life with tavernas and bars and even theatre.Because the island is small, even the wildest, remotest regions are easily accessible by road or hiking path.About two-thirds of the population live in Ermoupolis.The town’s harbor is dominated by a huge dry dock; iron works, tanneries and a shipyard line the outer harbor.This industrial activity is a reminder of Syros’s glory days in the 19th century when it served as the chief port of Greece.Many of the town’s Venetian-style churches are Roman Catholic.Syros is the seat of Catholicism in Greece, the result of almost 400 years of Vene- tian rule under the Duchy of Naxos, founded by Marco Sanudi in 1207.Ermoupolis still bears a Venetian imprint.Multi-storey houses with wrought iron balconies overlook narrow, cobble-stone streets that seem more Italian than Greek.This is especially true around the large, central piazza with its colonnaded side streets.The islanders are proud of this heritage and the Catholics, about half the population, have a special name for themselves; Frangosyriani.VISIT FACTORIES Roman Catholic or Orthodox, everybody has a taste for loukou- mia.Two factories are worth special mention — Leivadara and Xa-goraris.Xagoraris is a few doors down from the Melissa (Honey Bee) pastry shop, where the rice pudding — at about 25 cents a serving — is among the best this writer has sampled in Greece.Leivadara produces both loukoumia and halvadopita — nougat filled with whole, fresh roasted almonds.Founded in 1923, the workshop is run by Evangelos Leivada-ras, son of founder Antoni.“Foreigners call it Turkish Delight,’’ Evangelos said.“But this is wrong.It is not Turkish.It comes from the Greeks who lived in Asia Minor.They brought it here during the exchange of populations between Greece and Turkey in 1922.” The point is debatable.The linguistic evidence doesn’t support the nationalistic view: the Greek word is derived from the Turkish lukum, still a popular confection in Turkey.What is not in dispute, however, is that the loukoumia makers of Syros are skilled craftsmen.The factory price for Turkish Delight is $1.50 to $1.75 a kilogram (2.2 pounds) — enough to satisfy the sweetest tooth. TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, APRIL 13.1984—13 _ WlfUTfSul Travel_____________________________ «ecom Tourism could play major role in Grenada’s recovery ST.GEORGE’S, Grenada (Reuter) — Steel-band music blares from a luxury cruise ship docked alongside Grenada’s tiny seafront capital, hotels are being built or refurbished and an international airport is being rushed to completion.Only a few months after the United States led an invasion last October that ended a brief Marxist revolutionary military government, tourists are taking the place of troops in St.George’s.The Caribbean island’s interim administration hopes money from tourists curious to see a place that made world headlines will help restore the shattered economy.But some experienced officials are still cautious about the prospects.The controversial Point Salines International Airport is due to be completed next October.“The airport will bring a potential boom in tourism for which we must plan carefully in order to cater rationally for the increase in arrivals,” tourism director Richard Gherman said in an interview.The government is also preparing a tourism master plan that involves raising hotel capacity to 1,200 rooms by 1985.Tourism, second foreign exchange earner for this island of 110.000 after agriculture, contributes 40 per cent of the gross national product and employs about 2.000 people.A 250-bed first-class hotel is to be built at Butler House, the former government building overlooking St.George’s that was burned by members of the deposed People’s Revolutionary Army as the invasion began Oct.25.Government approval is also imminent for a 150-bed hotel at Grand Anse beach, Cherman said, while the Grenada Beach Hotel at Grand Anse, damaged during the invasion, is to get more rooms.But apart from the resumption of visits by cruise vessels, tourism has yet to show any real upturn and hoteliers and travel agents are skeptical.“There is no real tourism yet and it is unlikely to come this winter,” said Richard Menezes, president of the Grenada Chamber of Commerce.He said big European tour operators needed up to two years to promote a vacation destination properly and although the invasion put the island on the tourists’ map, he did not expect any significant increase from the United States before the summer of 1985.The United States has been Grenada’s biggest tourism market, providing 16 per cent of the 32,500 visitors last year.The springboard to tourism development will be completion of the Point Salines airport at a cost of $24 million, of which $19 million is being provided by the United States.The airport was being built by the Cubans at an estimated cost of $75 million before last year’s events.It had become a major point of friction between Grenada and Washington, which saw it as a potential staging point for Cuban operations.WOO AIRLINES Cherman said the government would soon negotiate with major air carriers to serve Point Salines.But local travel operators say the new airport is unlikely to be much more than a landing strip with night lights by October and feel major carriers will be reluctant to fly in unless better hotel facilities are ready.Menezes estimated that increa- sing hotel space to 1,500 first-class rooms from the current 300 should support regular flights by major carriers, but would take two years and mean a $100 million investment.The interim government sees the emphasis on tourism as of prime importance since the economy needs any help it can get.Unemployment is estimated at 25 to 30 per cent.With a $3.5 million fiscal deficit, the financial options are limited and export income from cacao, nutmeg and fruits has slumped as a result of neglect by the Marxist government of the late prime minister Maurice Bishop.The interim government has also begun talks with the International Monetary Fund on a one-year standby credit, which would replace a $14-million extended fund facility suspended after the invasion.Travelling tips that make that lugging a little easier WATERLOO, Ont.(CP) —- Packing suitcases may not exactly be the highlight of a vacation, but with proper preparation and planning, it can be less of a chore.Make a list of everything you want to take and always carry it with you so you can jot down extras as they occur to you, says Dorothy Schmidt, who used to conduct packing seminars for a luggage manufacturer.The style of luggage is a personal preference and, Schmidt says, you get the quality you pay for.But Rob Bullas of Bullas Travel advises against expensive luggage, “because invariably it is the expensive luggage that is damaged.” Joan Heaton, director of Cameo Modelling School, travels extensively for work and pleasure.She avoids luggage lineups by carrying only one under-the-seat bag and a wardrobe or garment bag which can usually be hung up in the plane.But she advises checking with a travel agent to make sure the plane will have such a compartment; some charters don’t.Schmidt says a rectangular 60- or 66-centimetre Pullman is one of the basic suitcase styles and should hold enough for a week or two, if you do a little handwashing along the way.She usually begins her packing by putting » the suitcase on a bed.“Then I lay everything out around it — all the lingerie together, the sportswear and so on.“Check them off your list to make sure you haven’t forgotten anything and check your list again as you put them in the case.” Heavy items such as shoes, hair dryer, or cosmetic bag go at the hinged end or back of the case because that is where they will head anyway when the case is carried.PACK IN SHOES Small soft items such as lingerie, socks or pantyhose can be rolled up and stuck in the toes of shoes.Not only does this save space, but it also provides stuffing to keep the shoes from being crushed.Take your slip, and holding the front to- ward you, fold it in thirds lengthwise.While not as essential with a slip, this folding technique — with folds away from the front — is especially important with dresses, blouses and jackets, because the worst creasing will be at the back where it won’t be as obvious.When folding blouses and sweaters in thirds lengthwise, let the sleeves hang down as straight as possible.Then fold them across in thirds or quarters to fit the space on the bottom of the suitcase.The principles that apply to the rest of the wardrobe — skirts, jackets, dresses and slacks — involve interfolding the items, with each layer padded by another piece of clothing.Because no uoyagtfd PUzi Rock Forest — 4157 Bourquo Blvd.564-BOSS - JOB 2J0 Cali or Drop In A Visit Us ^ °f % * ACTA1 •