The Lucknow Sentinel, 1978-09-27, Page 4Page 4--Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, September 27, 1978
The Lucknow Sentinel
LUCKNOW, ONTARIO
"The Sepoy Town"
An the Huron -Bruce Boundary
Established 1873 = Published Wednesday
Published by .Signal -tar Publishing Ltd.
Robert G. Shrier - president and publisher
Sharon J. Dietz - editor
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At one
with nature
Nature holds few dull moments for those
whoget to know it. For. 26 months in the mid
• 1840s a man named Henry David Thoreau
lived on the edge of a New England pond. He
was an educated man in conventional
terms, but he remarked of Harvard
University, where he had studied, that it
"taught all the branches but none of the
roots". His real education, he felt, came
from the time he spent at the pond studying
nature. "I went to the woods,," he explained, -
"because I wished to live deliberately, to
front only the essential facts of life, and to
see if I could not learn what it had to teach,
and not, when I came to die; discover that I
had not I ived." •
He Learned a great deal, which •he passed
on to posterity in his masterpiece, Walden:
or, Life in the Woods. The surprising thing
about Walden Pond was that it was only two
miles from the centre of the town of ' Con-
cord, Massachussets. Thoreau feltno need
to go to the unexplored wilderness to find
the lessons in life which nature has to teach.
Within earshot of -the church bells of Con-
cord, there was nothingvery exotic. His
food for thought came from considering the
ways of worms and water bugs, of squirrels
and chickadees. He filled _several pages,“of
his book with his observations of a battle
between two types of ants.
Walden was Thoreau's theatre, his art
gallery, his classroom. It 'held his interest
constantly; yet, if he held not worked at
gaining a knowledge of his natural neigh-
bours, he might have hated the place. Ifhe
had not turned over the occasional log to see
what was underneath, or not known one bird
from another, he Would never have . fur-
thered his understanding of the human
condition. As.it was, he came away knowing,
the great secret of life on earth, that itis one
and indivisible. In the "restless, nervous,
bustling, trivial Nineteenth Centry" in
which he lived, he showed a rare awareness
of the fact that man could only expand his
place in creation at his own risk.
That 'century has now been succeeded by
another in which human transgressions
against the natural order have been pushed
close -to the point of self-destruction. It has
become.a plain matter of survival for man
to learn the limitations of his role in the
world. We cannot aft be Thoreaus; but there
should be a little of the Thoreau in all of us if
we are to make the earth safe for coming
generations. People who know about nature
know about the thread that connects ail
living matter. And they know, too, just how
delicate and irreparable that thread can be,.
(Royal Bank Letter)
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The
un at the fair
L 1 OKING BACK
THROUGH THE SENTINEL FILES
75 YEARS AGO
Mr. Huckstable of Chest-
erville, new Engineer of the
water works, commenced
work on Wednesday morn-
ing. He is a practical man
and has had 18 years exper-
ience in the engineering
business.
W. Spindler has purchased
the Wire Fence business—
from Rueben Spindler.
James G unt. of Kinloss
purchased from James Bow-
man 9f Guelph the first prize
Polled Angus bull at the
Toronto Exhibition. He is a
very fine animal and will
make a fine head to Mr.
Gaunt's splendid. herd.
George McLean, having
shipped a car load of 22
range horses from Southern
Alberta, will sell them by
public auction here on Octob-
er 10 at 1 .p.m. They are
young and weigh from 10 to
12 hundred, They have no
'broncho or cayuse blood in
them but have been- raised
from good important mares
and stallions. They are halter
broken and have been more
or less handied.
The weather is the only
thing that will interfere with
the success of the Lucknow
Fall Fair this Thursday and
Friday. The directors have
everything in readiness and.
. with fine weather we will
have a large crowd in town
on fair days. On the' evening
of the first day a promenade
concert will.be held at the
hall at the fair grounds, when
the band will be present.
50 YEARS AGO
Wellington Henderson has
sold his butcher business to
Jos. MacMillan, who takes
possession October 1.
This community was great-
ly shocked and saddened
Monday on learning that A.
E. Durnin, familiarly known
as. Abe, together with a niece
of his, Mrs. Andreen, ' had
been killed in an' automobile
accident at Elston, Saskat-
chewan. Mr. Durnin had
gone out to Saskatchewan
three weeks ago to look after
his farming interests and to
purchase cattle. Evidently
the car was driven by, his
niece's husband. At a level
crossing near Elston, the car
was hit by a freight train.
Mr. Andreen was not 'seri-
ously injured. His wife was a
daughter of Mr. George
Durnin, and a bride of last
spring. Mr. Durnin leaves to
mourn his wife, a son and
two daughters.
At a sharp curve occurring
at the top of ' a hill near
Wroxeter, Jim Young's new
Chrysler sedan rolled once
over coming to a stop safely
on its wheels last' Monday
evening. Wesley Joynt, Al-
vin Percy and Dick Webster
were other passengers and
Ted Collyer was driving.
They were on their way home.
from Toronto when the driver
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