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Page 4B—Crossroads—Nov. 13, 1985
ARTHRITIS respects no agte,
happy tot is just as likely to end up with one.
rheumatic disease as iv her grandad. Arthritis,
than 30,(100 Canadian children under the age
no
race,
no
creed,
the
says The Arthritis Society. This
of more than, 115 known types of
reports The Society, now afflicts more
of 15.
•
light of the Arctic -Subarctic
Na ut'ca l . niche Gallery. Visitors almost feel
M the cold in this gallery which
also lets ev-eryon.e ex-
perience 24 hours under
Arctic skies in 12 minutes.
You see the midnight sun
• and a display of aurora
borealis, or northern lights:
The geography and history
of southern Manitoba are
vividly told in the Grass-
lands Gallery with its tipi, a
log cabin, a sod hut and, of
course, a Red River cart.
In the Urban Gallery, one
can peep in the windows of
Madame Tarot's parlor, Mr.
van Ginkle's photography
studio or Dr. Garvin's dental
office.
These houses and many
others, including a railway
station and a drugstore, are
modelled after the Winnipeg
of the 1920s.
The buffalo diorama, in
the Orientation Gallery,
shows Metis hunters chasing
buffalo across the plain.
There's a gift shop and a
bookstore in the museum
which is open the. year round.
The museum is part of the
Manitoba. Centeriiiial Centre
which includes •the Planet-
arium and the 2,100 -seat
Concert Hall.
The dome ceiling in the
Planetarium is the sky,
complete with the moon and
the sun, stars and planets
and even UFOs.
The Zeiss,, projector is
really 154 projectors rolled
into one. It shows the sky
with much accuracy, better
than if you wereoutside on a
clear night.
The Museum, Planetarium
and Concert Hall complex is
conveniently located at
Rupert and Main in down-
town Winnipeg.
harbors nonsuch.
By Claude R. Lemieux shipped overland to t
All museums have at least Pacific for more goodw
a little something to set them visits and finally delivered
apart from other museums. Winnipeg in November, 197
The Manitoba Museum of •,In all, it had' sailed near
Man and Nature goes a bit 14,500 km (9,000 mile
'further than the"little some- before dropping anchor
thing." It has built an extra good at the. Manitob
wing to house a jewel of a Museum of Man and Nature
reconstruction masterpiece, Almost as interesting a
the Nonsuch. It's a full-size the ship itself are the wharf
replica of the first Hudson's the ship's outfitters shop an
Bay Company ship to take the Boar's Head Pub.
furs from Hudson Bay to Anyone entering th
England. • dimly-lit harbor area ca
Visitors can board the easily imagine the ghosts o
accurately-reproduced18 m long -gone sailors lurking i
(53 -foot) ketch which is theshadows. .
"anchored':in a three- - One expects to see som
dimensional setting, or peg -legged sailor, probabl
diorama, representing 'a 17th with a black patch over on
century Thames River eye, stagger, out ofihe Boar'
wharf. Head with a mug of ,rum i
The ketch has a tall main- one hand and a cursin
mast .in front and a small parrot on his shoulder.
mizzen behind, both with The designers of thi
square sails. harbor scene, like those o
It' took Hinks of Appledore,_ _ tiae. • sh i-p:,__h.a-ve cr.-ea-t,ed--a
North i)evon,, -to months - to masterpiece. The visitor is
build this ship, with its solid taken back centuries and
English oak hull a•nd Scotch visions of the Victory, the
pine masts. . Bounty, the Mary Celeste
Before her construction, in the Hesperus and many
1967-68, her designers did other famous ships come to
extensive research into the mind.
archives n of the British The Nonsuch Gallery in
National Maritime Museum the Manitoba .Museum is
including a look at Samuel only one of six interesting
Pepys' diary. galleries, each with a special
The Nonsuch was launched theme.
Aug. 26, 1968, into the The Early History Gallery
Torridge River• and towed tells the story of the earth
upriver where the finishing from fossils to space ships.
touches, which included six A diorama showing a 636-
two -pound cannons, were kg (1,400 pounds) polar bear
completed. about to devour the ring seal
It toured several British he has just killed is the high -
and French ports before
being taken to Canada
aboard the SS Bristol City.
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Good Grief! -
The Peanuts gang is 35
By Noel Osment
Aaugh! Charlie Brown and
Lucy Van Pelt and Snoopy
and the gang are 35 years
old.
It was in 1950 that Charles
Schulz first sold his strip,
"Peanuts," to seven news-
papers.
In 1984, the number of
newspapers carrying the
strip passed the 2,000 mark,
earning it a Guinness Book of
World Records spot.
Schulz has done every one
of the cartoons himself.
"I don't think it's wise to
turn them over to someone
else," he said in a recent in-
terview. "A cartoon is very
personal. Perhaps, years
ago, when comic strips on
Sunday took up an entire
page, it would have been dif-
ferent."
So when he retires, he said,
the whole gang will retire,
too.
But not to worry.
Schulz, who will be 63 in
November, has no intention
of retiring for some time.
He's not hoping to travel —
he seldom takes more than
four or five days of vacation
at once — and is quite con-
tent with the life he leads in
Santa Rosa, Calif., where he
owns what he calls "the
world's most beautiful ice
arena," and where he gets
together with buddies for
regular hockey games.
When Schulz and his fam-
ily
amily — which includes five
children, since grown and on -
their own — moved to Santa
Rosa from St. Paul, Minn., in
1968, the local ice rink was
one of their favorite places.
When they learned it would
have to close a year later be-
cause of structural prob-
ems, they decided to build
one.
It's now an important part
of Santa Rosa life, he said,
often drawingtop skaters for
competitions. One of ' his
daughters skated fora year
with the Holiday on Ice show
and he has a son who is
active in an amateur hockey
league in Southern Californ-
ia.
Schulz himself plays in an
over -60 league, and says he's
now a.pretty good player —
"better than I was in high
school." •
He admits that Charlie
Brown's frustrations on his
ill-fated baseball team and in
his football scrimmages with
Lucy Van Pelt are remin-
iscent of some of his own ex-
periences as a kid playing
hockey in Minnesota, "when
I knew what it was to lose 40
to nothing. Sports are a sort
of caricature of life."
Schulz said he misses his
own children. "I don't adjust
too well to people leaving,"
he admits. And, he said, as
people get older, they have a
longing to go back to their
past and experience again a
world in which adults take
charge. Much of the appeal
of "Peanuts"; he believes, is
that they have their own
world of griefs and prob-
lems, but offstage the par-
ents are handling the big
problems.
He recalls that in one strip
he had Charlie Brown say
something to the effect that
being a kid means you can
fall asleep in the car.
Schulz said that, like
Charlie Brown, he has al-
wajs been a worrier. "When
I get a long-distance call, I'm
always sure there is some
kind of catastrophe."
Lucy, he said, expresses
his sarcastic side, and he
likes being able to put his
words in her mouth.
"I'rn always surprised
how many women like the
character, and actually
identify with her," he said.
Over the years, he said,
characters have changed or
disappeared or been added
based on a kind of natural
change. As Snoopy became a
great hit, for example, he be-
came more than just Charlie
Brown's dog, but a personal-
ity who liked to dream of
himself as performing grand
feats of bravery or cunning.
Schroeder, the piano play-
er, has pretty well disap-
peared because, Schulz said,
"I've done about as many
things as I can with the
musical notes."
Readers can expect to see
more of Spike, who will con-
tinue to be interviewed out in
the desert, and Schulz is par-
ticularly pleased he said,
with the friendship between
Marcy and Peppermint Pat-
ty. He added them to the
strip, he said, because it be-
came clear to him he needed
more female characters.
He said he has avoided
serious controversy.
"I'm not the sort who
wants to offend people to
prove a point."
Sometimes people write in
to complain, he said, "but
it's usually obvious they
didn't understand a strip, or
else they have no .sense of
humor."
"I did do a series a couple
of summers ago on a church
camp, in which Peppermint
Patty gets frightened of
stories about the end of the
world. I have no use for peo-
ple who go around predicting
he last stages. But no one
complained, to my sur-
prise."
And when he did a Sunday
page on school prayer, he
was gratified to hear from
readers on both sides off the
issue, thanking him for being
on their side.
"Peanuts," of course, has
become big business over the
years, spinning off more
than 1,000 books, 30 televi-
sion specials and four
feature films.
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