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Third annual Art in the Park happening July 30

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July 27, 2023

Photo by LESLIE KNIBBS Local artist Theresa Minten working on a painting at Art in the Park 2022.

On Sunday, July 30, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. the Mouth Park in Massey will once again become the go-to destination for many to attend the third-time-running Art in The Park festival. Since the first event its popularity has increased drawing scores of art loving people down to the park. What better way to spend a Sunday afternoon than browsing the many vendors, listen to local musicians, and go for a swim in the clear water.

The Mouth Park, where the Sables and Spanish River meet, is a natural treasure in Massey well known to locals for its sandy beach, shaded picnic areas and accessibility. From the parking lot entrance to the park is easily accessible for wheelchairs, walkers, wagons and strollers. New this year is an accessible ramp to the water from the beach enabling those in wheelchairs to take a dip.

To get to the park go south off the highway at Burkes Shell to Albert Street and make a left continuing down the gravel road a short distance past the boat launch along the river to the parking lot then take the accessible ramp to the beach.

This year, the festival is expected to feature 15 to 20 local artists and vendors as well as live music.

For more information or vending info contact Lindie Wither-Weston at friendsofmouthpark@gmail.com or 519-820-9298.

Third annual Art in the Park happening July 30 — Photo by LESLIE KNIBBSLocal artist Theresa Minten working on a painting at Art in the Park 2022.

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40 Random Bits of Trivia About Artists and the Artsy Art That They Articulate – Cracked.com

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November 3, 2024

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John Little, whose paintings showed the raw side of Montreal, dies at 96 – CBC.ca

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October 31, 2024

Harry Miller

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A misspelled memorial to the Brontë sisters gets its dots back at last

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September 26, 2024

Anne Joseph

LONDON (AP) — With a few daubs of a paintbrush, the Brontë sisters have got their dots back.

More than eight decades after it was installed, a memorial to the three 19th-century sibling novelists in London’s Westminster Abbey was amended Thursday to restore the diaereses – the two dots over the e in their surname.

The dots — which indicate that the name is pronounced “brontay” rather than “bront” — were omitted when the stone tablet commemorating Charlotte, Emily and Anne was erected in the abbey’s Poets’ Corner in October 1939, just after the outbreak of World War II.

They were restored after Brontë historian Sharon Wright, editor of the Brontë Society Gazette, raised the issue with Dean of Westminster David Hoyle. The abbey asked its stonemason to tap in the dots and its conservator to paint them.

“There’s no paper record for anyone complaining about this or mentioning this, so I just wanted to put it right, really,” Wright said. “These three Yorkshire women deserve their place here, but they also deserve to have their name spelled correctly.”

It’s believed the writers’ Irish father Patrick changed the spelling of his surname from Brunty or Prunty when he went to university in England.

Raised on the wild Yorkshire moors, all three sisters died before they were 40, leaving enduring novels including Charlotte’s “Jane Eyre,” Emily’s “Wuthering Heights” and Anne’s “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.”

Rebecca Yorke, director of the Brontë Society, welcomed the restoration.

“As the Brontës and their work are loved and respected all over the world, it’s entirely appropriate that their name is spelled correctly on their memorial,” she said.

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