Wordless Wednesday - Vintage Painting

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Wordless Wednesday - Vintage Painting

The schooner 'York' entering the first Welland Canal at Port Dalhousie, ON from Lake Ontario, circa 1840

Original Artist: Tony Akkerman
Digital Image courtesy of Niagara Falls Public Library, Local History Collection, Francis J. Petrie Collection

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Don BoyleSeptember 13, 2012 at 1:16 PM
I have a shadow box of the "York", believed to have belonged to the Capt, and was given to me in 1934
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Dear Ancestor

Your tombstone stands among the rest;
Neglected and alone.
The name and date are chiseled out
On polished, marble stone.
It reaches out to all who care
It is too late to mourn.
You did not know that I exist
You died and I was born.
Yet each of us are cells of you
In flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
Entirely not our own.
Dear Ancestor, the place you filled
One hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left
Who would have loved you so.
I wonder how you lived and loved,
I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot,
And come to visit you.
~ Author Unknown ~