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Sat:,
Sept. 2
Seaforth Arena
11 am -12:30 pm •
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Registration forms available on Saturda
SEPT. 22.23-111
Showtime 8:0o Box office opens 7:30 ,
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we did
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FAIRYTALES'
Frank Ray Filth and Frame Sch.,ht:
1......4.111arry Tampa n.......N.Charles Band
A Charles Band Production
SOME DAY'
YOUR PRINCE WILL COME
A. 10.a
HWY. i GODERICH AT
Aft CONCESSION RD. 4 •
PHONE 524.9981
GODERICH
The family of
Dave & Lavine
WATSON
wish to invite friends &
hrelatives to
OPEN HOUSE
for their
50th,
- Anniversary
to be held* at
Duff's Church
Walton,tInt,
or;
October 1 St
oi; -5 p.m.
Best Wishes Only
Open Reception
TOM & BRENDA
WilYTE
Oct. 7
at
Family Paradise
Music by: Ken Scott
Ladies Please bring
lunch
Royal Canadian Legion
BRANCH 156
:TONIGHT
Thurs. Sept. 21st
Supper & General Meeting
Supper 6:30 Meeting 8:00
ALL MEMBERS WELCOME
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HURON
COUNTY
September
26 - 30 1978
Plowing Competitions
Exhibits and Parades
Ladies Program
Something for Everyone
WINGHAM
one mile east on highway 86
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THE 4h ikNISiAL VA GA 1ONDIblikDATION'
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, --.
idtt. Milk' ap
Demonstrations , 1
• mmonstration,s Honey:
.Pottery i, Fine Arts.
- Eviler:Ain Me rti , ' CfaUt 5
..S.Justge S lit tItnts • D'isptly.
• iterrcslitnents 1-1c.e. ivi...,,tc.e.1
40' Mildt, Much _Viore,
and introducing an Art Gallo?" and a dramatic Flower Festival
in the refurbished Van Egmond House
Sunday
f „ Septern` ber'-`-•;r„
from .1 2.00a.na - 5.00 ca rim
tlic. historic:4 VAN EGiviONin
Milt a (4. `-)ctiforth (unclip t2)
and at Ihe ,Seafortlt Public SchooNliarket St.
PloworTestieril & Art Begirt Sat.'at 12 „Noon until 8 P.M.
Horse drawn transportation available
between sites Sunday
StratfOrd Fair
Sept. 20 ?Att Q
Max .Webster
Friday, Sep-t;• 22 ,
$5.00 per person includes gate entry
Myrna Lorrie
Concert & Dance
Sat. Sept. 23
$4.00 per person includes gate entry
Limited advance Tickets for above shows
Available gat — , Music Stratford
Stratford Coliseum
The following entertainment is five with
gate admission.
Horse shows Wed-Thurs. Sept. 20-21
Tug of War Thursday Sept. 21
Trans Canada Hell Drivers Sat. Sept 23
Demolition Derby Sunday Sept. 24
(Entry forms available 'at Sti-atford
rairgrounds)
Campbell Amusments ;Over 24 Rides
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Be sure to come to the
Plownienis Ball
in the
Brussels , Morris and Grey Community Centre
Thursday, Sept. 28
ian Wilbee's Orchestra
Tickets available at the Brussels, Morris and Grey official catering
tent at -the Plowing Match dr' from any recreation member.
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Dancing 9'-.1 $4 a couple LunCh included '
ConteSta'nts for the Onto rip Queen of•
the FurroW will'be present.
THE
SCHOOL
SCANDAL
written and perfdrmed by
• Ted Johns •
The one-man -show' that broke box office
records . at the' Blyth Summer Festival is
back by popular demand. The Great
'Teachers' Strike of 1978 provides
side-splitting laughter and touching
Blyth, Meniorial Hall
(Air Conditioned)
September 26; 2'7., 28, 29, 30 at 8 p.m.
Matinee September 28 at 2 p.m.
FOR RESERVATIONS CALL 523-9300
Tickets also available at:
Mary's Sewing Centre, Clinton; Campbell's of Godarich, Goderich;
Huron Expositor, BoafOrth; Waxworks Boutique, Wirigham;
Bill's Place Variety, Lucknow; Box Office, Blyth.
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IT'S BACK
10 THE HURON EXPOSI OR, SEPTEMBER 21, 1978
•
CT
about the problems of the
modern educational system
and particularly the Great
Teachers' Strike of 1978 is .
being- brought hack as a
salute ,to the 1978 Inter-
rattienal Plowing -Match
being held this month at
Winghani, just 10 miles from
the •Blyth Theatre. It is being
co-sponsored by the Blyth
' Summer Festival and 'the
• Blyth Board of Trade and will
appear nightly at Blyth
Memorial Hall from Sept. 26
to 30.' special =tine
Festival and there was --a •
large demand for it to return
for a longer period: ;The
FestiVal had also been urged
from other quarters to pro-
duce a • play during the
Plowing Match week• as
entertainment for visitors in
the area.
Tickets for the 'show are
now on sale by writing to the
Festival boX ()Mee. Box 291,
Blyth, NOM ILO or at the
following tiz•ket
of Gcderieh;
Mary's Sewinu Centre. Clin-.
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hero part II
Dr. Bucke's visit to New Jersey proved to be the'start of a long
friendship betWeen the two men. In 1880, the bearded poet paid
,a return call on the Bucke's and stayed with them for four
months in London. , •
C., 'Afterwards, Whittnan.wrote abo.ut the London asylum saying.
"this' is among the mpst, advanced, per—fected and kindly and
'rationally carried on of all its kind in America."
In a period when asylums were overcrowded, understaffed and
when the patients were often treated like little more than
animals, Dr. Bucke's humane treatment ot the insahe must
indeed have seemed exceptional.
Over the years the friendship between the poet and the doctor
grew and in 1883, Qr. Bucke published a short biography of his
friend. Then, six years later, it was Dr. Burke who made the
graveside eulogy at Whitman's funeral and as the.poet's literary
executor, oversaw the publication of many of Whitman's letters
and notes,
Philosophy
• Dr, Bucke also continued his rk with the insane and when
the University of Western Ontario decided to open a medical
school, Dr. Bucke was the natural choice to be professor of
nervous and mental diseases.
It was after he was made a professor that the doctor published
the book which was a culmination -of his philosophy.' Cosmic
Consciousness first appeared in a limited edition of 500 copies,
but over the years, it has been republished and can Still be found
on library shelves. Ironically, the last edition was published
during the drug years of the last decade but Dr, Bucke's cosinc
yonscionsness was obtained without benefit of any .mind-
/expanding'aids. .,
The book was dedicated to Maurice Bucke, the doctor's eldest
son who had been killed in an accident while still a young man.
In his book, the doctor predicted a new level of consciousness,
possessed by men like, BOdha, Jesus, the apostle Paul, Dante
and Whitman would sane day be possessed by all men.
Dr. Bucke believed the attainment Of a higher consciousness
was as inevitable as the- "establishment of aerial navigation"
and the coming socialism which he hoped would rid the earth of
the divisi6n between rich and poor.
Slipped
In 1902, one year after the book's publication, Dr. Bucke
slipped on the ice near his home and died instantly. But the man
who o led such an adverittifaUS' Yong-rind Crowded both literary .
and scientific achievementS into his later life, had long been
assured man's soul .was granted immortality.'
In more recent years, London artist Greg Curnoe has rekindled
interest in Dr. Bucke with his _portrait of the doctor',"
encircled with the words cosmic consciousness,.
But in a period when Canadians in general, and Canadian
writers and film takers in particular are searching for heroes, no
one has yet fury' explored the life Of, a man who was an.
adVenturer, a doctor, a writer, a philosopher, and an advocate of
humane treatment for the mentally ill. The real story of Dr.
Maurice Bucke has yet,to be written,
Pe4 le
Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Tyndall and Mr. and.Mrs. Cliff
Broadfoot visited with Mr, aptliVIrs. Neil ;Tyndall at
their cottage on an island in the.western end of Like
Nipissing.
Sunday visitors with Mi;„ and Mrs Harold Coleman
and John were Mr. and Mrs. Colin McDougall and Mrs.
Violet Quance. Bracebridoe Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Allen,
Mrs. Russell Mulligan, Mrs. Grace Found, Brantford,
Mr, and Mrs. Alf. Ross, Hensall. Mr.. and Mrs, Anthony
Allen, Stratford, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Allen, Mitchell,
• Mr. and Mrs. Murray Christie. Mr, and Mrs. Eldon
Allen. Mr. and Mrs. Carter Kerslake, Staffa and Mr,
Allen Coleman, Hamilton.
Mrs. Orville Oke, Goderich Street and her daughter
Mrs. Mitch Moore of Goderich have returned to their
• home following a tour thrqugh parts of the British Isles and
Europe. • ,
Mr. Robert Newnham who has been:a patient in Straford
HoSpital for sometime returned to his home this week. Mr.
and Mrs. Newham just prior to his illness, had returned
from a trip ,to England. • „
Mr. Mac McEwan•of GUell:Ai formerly associated with
the Province of Ontario Savings office have here. visited
firends in town on Monday.
Mr. an dMrs. Wm Roberton are on trip overseas.
Mr. Nelson Govenlock of Sinifto'e•talled—On his 'Many'•.
friends in town over the weekend. He was among a
number of area first war vetersans who were in Goderich
Saturday attending an annual gathering arranged by the
Legion zone. •
Mr. Brian Haley left last week for Kitchener where he
resumed his studies at Sir. Wilfred Laurier Uniersity,
Maija Vilcens, a librarian at the National Gallery in
Ottawa and Sister' Jean Ann Ledwell of Brescia College.
London were recent visitors with Alice Gibb.
Visitors at the residence of Rev. Ure and Mrs. Stewart
the past week were Mr.. and Mrs.' John Stevries, Condon,
. , Mrs. Wm. Fondeu, of Grand Beud and Mrs. Mary Moore.
Bradftird, '
Mrs. Glen Whyte of Atwood and daughter Miss Joan
Whyte of Vancouver were Tuesday guests of Rev. J. Ure
. and Mrs. Stewart,
Cassie James Of' Egrnondville learned recently that
Pradeep Malik, who the James family met on their recent
trip to Britain, will be visiting the James family this
becember, Mr. Malik telephoned from England 'to tell
Cassie he is coming to Canada later this year.
McKiliop
with Mi. and Mrs. Harold
Hare, Angeline and Carrie of
Stratford visited on Sunday
Mr. and Mrs. Murray Bary Bullock, Alan and Tracy
Glanville of Crediton and Mr.
of Huron Pa'k. Mrs. Mary'
Thornton and Miss Brenda
McCallum. 'and 'Mrs. Ben Wilson of
Mt. and , Mrs. Clarence
Winthrop.
Regele Seaforth visited
Wednesday evening with
Mr. add Mrs. Ed Regele and
Sunday visitors at the same
home were Mr. and Mrs.
Serendipity
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.'Conadign
By Alice GOA
When Richard Maurice Backe, the medleal doctor who started
out as an adventurer in the Wild West, was 36 years old and
firmly established in his Sarnia medical practice, he decided to
' revisit friends in England.
One evening the doctor and two of his friends idled away their
evening hours, not by playing cards or reliving the exploits of
their youth as you might expect, but by reading the poetry of
Wordsworth, Shelly; Keats and especially Walt Whitman.
Oh the return ride to his hotel, Dr. Bucke experienced. the
mystical,awakening:he would later call cosmic consciousness,
This experience was the ,basis for his took Comic .
Consciougness, A. Study in the Evolution .of the human' Mind
which .was reprinted as recently as eight years ago.
Some years-later, writing about his experience in England, the'
doctor'said, "All at once without warning of any kind he found
himself wrapped areund as it were ty a flame coloured cloud.
Directly afterwards came upon him a sense of. exultation, of
immense joyousness accompanied or immediately followed by an
intellectual illumination quite impossible to describe."
the illumination, or cosmic experience of Dr. Bucke's never
repeated itself to him,hut thdmemory of the "soul's inner light"
led to Dr. Bucke's con'viction that man could obtain a higher level
of consciousness which he called the cosmic state,
Psychiatry
When the doctor returned to Canada and was still working as a
general practitioner, the •government .of Upper Canada found
itself faced with a shortage of facilitieS for the.growing number of
,chronically insane.
In 1870, in answer. to a dire need in the western half of the
province, the London insane asylum (now the Louden Psychiatric
Hospital) opened'its doors, built on 300 acres ofswampy land on
theeet skirts of the city, not far from where Dr. Buckehad spent
his childhood.
. In 1877, after a short period working with the insane at the
....Hamilton asylum, Dr„ Maurice Bucke Was invited to be the head
doctor at the London asylum.7— '
• No Time
Dl'. Bucke wasted no time in putting his ideas on the treatment
of the insane to work..One of his first reforms at the London
hospital was the' system of abselute i.on.restraint of patients.
He also abolished the practice of tittling the 'Patients and
often the staff members with liberal doses Of-alcohol, a custom
introduced by his predecessor at the hospital;
Now while Dr. Bucke was an alienist (psychiatrist) by
profession, his interests roarned far beyond the treatment of the
insane.
In 1891,-the doctor devised a new use for sewage, spreading it
.around the hospital, fields and producing abundant crops which
sold for $250 an ,acre, a healthy sum in those days.
Dr.. Bucke also continued spending his spare hours reading
poetry and in 1877, he fulfilled a. dream of many jvars when he
travelled to,Camden, New Jersey to meet the Anterican poet
Walt Whitman,'
Friendship
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School Show back for ..•
,sr
THE SCHOOL CANDAL P ciformance, on Sept.' 28-at:2. tom The Huron Expositor,
t S-eaforth: Waxworks th,e runaway h. show of the P. 111,.
Blyth Sumn Festival is THE SCHOOL SCANDAL
e ling back to Blyth, Sept- played to sell-out audiences
rtrcr 26-30. • ,throughout. the ' summer
Ted Johns' one-man show season at the Blvth SuMmer
Boutique, Wingham; and
Bill's Place Variety, Lucknow