Summer break for Remembering our Roots

Times Contributor 

 

Effective today, I find it necessary to take a two-month break in the production of the ‘Remembering our Roots’ articles. When I started this project, it was intended to be a winter project only. We like to enjoy the summer, as do many of those I wish to interview. I have projects around my home that need doing, I have relatives and friends visiting, I also work twice a week in Calgary, and try to find time to play golf. 

I have really enjoyed interviewing and compiling articles on residents of Strathmore and Wheatland County, and fully intend to take up where I left off, in October.

As many of my readers know, most of my articles have been written on residents who now live in Strathmore, but many of them started in rural areas like Hussar, Cluny, Gleichen, Nightingale, Rockyford, etcetera. There have to be others living in small communities up to 50 miles radius. Who are you? Where do you live? When did you or your forefathers come here? Why did they come here? These are the people I interview. Please contact me at (403) 901-0533 after Oct. 1. I would like to share your story.

On June 5, I took delivery of 100 copies of the book “Remembering Our Roots” by John Godsman. This book is a compilation of the 55 articles written between May 2010 and December 2012. 

On June 27, I took delivery of a another 100 copies, and wish to advise that 25 per cent of proceeds will be donated to Red Cross Flood Relief. Cost of the book is $40 per copy. Volume 2 will be produced in April 2015, and will represent articles written in 2013 and 2014. The book was written at the request of a number of my early clients.

Thank-you!