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Canada 2025 Part Three: Dave’s Apiaries, Rolling Ridge Maple Syrup, Downtown London, Heroes Comics
We drove from Pinery Provincial Park into London, Ontario and had breakfast at Katie’s Kitchen on Oxford Street. The food was fresh and the people were kind. We had internet access so we got caught up as best we could. We went to Walmart to get some essentials and then the real adventure began. I…
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Canada 2025 Part Two: Long Point PP, St. Thomas, Pinery PP
Long Point, Ontario, Canada has always played in my imagination because when I was a kid growing up in Erie, Pa., sitting on the shoreline with my friends, we could often see Long Point, some 30 miles to the north. Conditions had to be just right but we could see it. Swimmers who swam across…
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Canada 2025 Part One: Crossing the Border on Canada Day, Old Fort Erie, Crystal Beach
We left for our big 2025 Canadian Trip on July 1: Canada Day. We prepped the van and left Union City, headed north, up Route 89 to Interstate 90. From there a short drive into Buffalo and across the Peace Bridge. Customs went without a hitch and we wrapped around the tight right turn, out…
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Part Four: Reilly Fitzgerald’s Art: Bright Colors and Beautiful Scenes
By Michael Downingwith Reilly Fitzgerald Many who see Reilly Fitzgerald’s art and learn of his long-term physical challenges note the juxtaposition between a life of pain and a painting style that consists of bright and colourful images. In other words, you might never know his pain simply by looking at his paintings. Reilly said that,…
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Part Three: Reilly Fitzgerald Becomes Ambidextrous
By Michael Downingwith Reilly Fitzgerald “I remember taking a trip as a young adult, in the late 1980s, to the Health Sciences Centre in St. John’s,” Reilly told me one morning in an email. The HSC is the main medical facility in the province and where Memorial University of Newfoundland’s faculty of medicine is located.…
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Part Two: Reilly Fitzgerald Brief Biography
By Michael Downingwith Reilly Fitzgerald Reilly Fitzgerald was born September 13, 1967 in St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada. His mother had been staying with her parents in Cupid’s Crossing for the latter part of her pregnancy, and his father was in Wabush working at Wabush Mines to establish the family’s future home. When the…
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