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Vancouver: A Very Different Work of Public Art

November 13, 2022 By Guy St. Clair

A Somewhat Enigmatic Work We found something completely different in one of our walkabouts in Vancouver. When our friend Kevin Manion was visiting us from Seattle and we were heading toward the harbor, we came across another work of art, this one unlike anything we had ever experienced before (assuming we consider a church something …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture, Journal, Personal History, Travel Tagged With: Manion (Kevin), Storey (Alan), Vancouver (Environment Canada and Oceans & Fisheries Building), Vancouver (Public Art)

Vancouver: Christ Church Cathedral

November 3, 2022 By Guy St. Clair

Perhaps a New Way of Thinking about Organized Religion While I’m not much of a religious fellow, one of my favorite things is just to go and sit in churches. I don’t know why, and there’s no sense in trying to “dig too deeply” (perhaps it’s all that church music I sang in choirs over …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture, History, Journal, Personal History, Travel Tagged With: Anglican Church of Canada, Art (Stained-Glass), Christ Church Cathedral (Vancouver), Diversity (Spiritual), Inclusion (Religious), Religion (Established), Religious mission, Social mission, War Memorials

Vancouver: A Very Welcoming City

October 29, 2022 By Guy St. Clair

A New Favorite Hotel and Perhaps a New Favorite City When we made our plans for visiting this lovely city (which we had visited in 2014 for a professional conference), we chose the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, falling in with the Fairmont chain just as we had done for Toronto and Victoria. And as I say, …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture, Journal, Personal History, Travel Tagged With: Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver, Vancouver (Architecture)

Aboard Amtrak’s Maple Leaf to Toronto

October 10, 2022 By Guy St. Clair

A Digital Post Card from Guy and Andrew Andrew has retired, as of last Friday. So we’re happy to report that the first thing we’re doing is taking a vacation. Amtrak and Canada’s VIA Rail offer the Maple Leaf service to Toronto, and we’re taking advantage of it. We’re traveling along the Hudson River Valley and the …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture, Current Events, Journal, Personal History, Travel Tagged With: Moynihan (Daniel Patrick), Moynihan Hall Penn Station NYC, Niagara Halls, VIA Rail's The Canadian

Vienna: A Third Memorial

October 9, 2022 By Guy St. Clair

Recognizing the Victims of Nazi Military Justice A third memorial which caught my interest is specifically different from the memorials described in the last post. This one, called The Memorial for the Victims of Nazi Military Justice, is by Olaf Nicolai, the German conceptual artist born in 1962 in Halle an der Saale. The memorial …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture, History, Travel Tagged With: Finlay (Ian Hamilton), Fischer (Heinz), Häupl (Michael), Nicolai (Olaf), Vienna - Memorials

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