by Laurie Ness Gordon | Sep 11, 2024 | Home Page
As principal, I had just reassured anxious parents that their kindergarteners would have a wonderful first day of school. I was on my way back to the office when the head caretaker asked me if I had heard the news: a plane had just slammed into the North Tower of the...
by Laurie Ness Gordon | Sep 1, 2024 | Finding Home, Home Page, Writing
Petticoats and long dresses, buttons and boots, hair nets and hats. On the Saturday of Labour Day weekend, I was treated to a behind-the-scenes look at the Costuming Department at Upper Canada Village when I donned an outfit that might have been taken out of Finding...
by Laurie Ness Gordon | Aug 2, 2024 | Finding Home, Home Page, Writing
So thrilled that Finding Home is on the Ottawa Public Library’s Recommended List. Thank you, Nancy Green for dropping off a copy for their evaluation. So far the novel has found its way to Vancouver, Victoria, Ottawa, Sarnia, Belleville, Madoc, Brockville,...
by Laurie Ness Gordon | Jul 9, 2024 | Home Page
On Sunday we visited the newly-re-opened Bellevue House in Kingston, a former home of Sir John A Macdonald. Jake Breadman, our costumed interpreter, shared a fascinating account of the history of the area and the site from pre-indigenous times to the period that...
by Laurie Ness Gordon | Jun 24, 2024 | Finding Home, Home Page
A lively discussion followed my presentation on Saturday at the Museum of Lennox and Addington. Several participants have ancestors who were Home Children. One woman has ten in her family. Another found the name of a relative in my book about The Newburgh Academy....
