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• Yesteryear by Joanna McClelland Glass
A sunny comedy with the hopeful message that love
can be lovelier the second time around.
• Z'Utlhut County Blues by Andrew Moodie
Can shared laughter tear down the barriers of fear and mistrust?
• Thirteen Hands. by Carol Sheilds
Canada's Pulitzer Prize-winning author deals a trump -laden hand
in this witty tribute to women at play.
• jaila., �a.� JO& by Keith Roulston
Enjoy the shenanigans when
high-tech madness kisses sweet common sense.
• XOt fl2 heS by Paul Ledoux & John Roby
The surfs up and the heat is on!
The Garage Series opens with this romantic musical.
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50 THE RURAL VOICE
Book Review
Putting the culture
in agriculture
Reviewed by Keith Roulston
If success is measured by money,
Ross Butler was not a great man. If
success is measured by influence, he
left an indelible mark.
Butler, who spent his life around
his hometown of Woodstock, made a
huge impression on school children
throughout Ontario when his
paintings of farm animals were
reproduced and put in every
classroom in the province. Those
paintings, promoting the imaginary
"true type" of each cattle and horse
breed, gave breeders a model to aim
for in their selection process. He
helped that process by starting one of
the province's first artificial
insemination units. His paintings
made him famous around the world,
subject of hundreds of newspaper,
magazine and radio and television
pieces. His butter sculptures brought
hundreds of thousands to the CNE
and Royal Winter Fair each year in
the early 1950s.
Yet, as Journey to Perfection, a
new biography on the artist points
out, he was constantly on the edge of
financial catastrophe.
Eugene Whelan, who has two of
Butler's true type sculptures of a
Holstein cow and bull in his office,
provides the preface to the book,
saying Butler was one of the leading
contributors in making Canada's
livestock industry known all over the
world. "Ross Butler was a man 1 am
proud to have known, and even more
proud to have bcen able to call my
friend."
Author Irene Crawford-Siano
delves into Butler's diary, the
archives at the studio his son David
still keeps open for visitors, and the
records of dozens of organizations
like the Holstein Association of