My year at TAG Cornwall has been eye opening and interesting. I’ve discovered a passion for painting. I’ve seen the good and bad in our local artists. I’ve listened to a lot of people. I’ve helped a lot of people. I’ve also had to say no to someContinue Reading
Some years ago in St. Raphael’s where I worked, we had a very warm sunny February day. Staff and residents all went outside with only sweaters on for a coffee break. The birds were chirping and it was so spring-like I made a comment about spring being on itsContinue Reading
While many know John Lester, formerly of JL Computers as a guru of sorts in Cornwall; he’s also an avid photographer. Some of his work hangs currently in TAG Cornwall, the city’s public art gallery that is on the precipice of closing. A meeting has been called for Tuesday FebruaryContinue Reading
The problem with media is that sometimes, really bad journalists with really poor integrity can take innocent bits of an answer and build a perspective that creates an entirely different meaning. Today the Seaway News issued yet another hatchet job against TAG Cornwall, the city’s 34 year old public artContinue Reading
Cornwall Ontario – Barrie Wentzell has met and worked with almost every musical great during his stint with Melody Maker magazine in London from 1965-75. That time included working with David Bowie who passed away after a brave fight with Cancer. Wentzell recently visited Cornwall for a fund raising exhibitContinue Reading
Moise Lasata is an example of a tortured artist struggling with life’s challenges. After working for years in Welding, and of some of the toughest industrial sorts, he was debilitated, losing a lot of ability to use his hands. While at a centre connecting with his First Nation’sContinue Reading
I had the opportunity to be a volunteer for a few hours at the Cornwall Community Christmas dinner at the Agora Center on Christmas day. What a party!!! Smiling faces on everyone: volunteers and guests. There was music, prizes and great food and… great company!! I can’t imagineContinue Reading
Canadians are travelling less over to the Akwesasne Mohawk Casino and Massena for shopping due to the low value of the Canadian dollar. As one person stated to this writer; “I wanted to go to the casino for New Years, but you’re $80 down just on the exchange before youContinue Reading
One cold and blistery Christmas Eve, Santa brought his sleigh to a stop on the roof of a tiny house down the lane. The chimney was too small for Santa, but as you know, small or big, down the chimney he goes. Santa knew that in this house livedContinue Reading
A curious series of events have just transpired this year that is putting yet another cultural asset of the City of Cornwall in peril. First the city cut the funding to its public art gallery to zero in a boggling budget process that saw three councilors cite conflict of interestContinue Reading
Jimi Hendrix, Freddie Mercury, Jim Morrison from the Doors, all of The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Miles Davis, Leonard Cohen, the Who, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, and just about every major musical head liner from 1965 to 1975 crossed the lens of Barrie Wentzell. Mr. WentzellContinue Reading
It was quite amusing to see some local media get excited by our homey Ryan Gosling mentioning Cornwall on Saturday Night Live, a NBC comedic institution led by Canuck Lorne Michaels who hails from Winterpeg. As many know Ryan, who was born in London, grew up here and gotContinue Reading
Yes, I know, I’ve got emails from many of you complaining that I haven’t been writing as much here on CFN these past months. The truth is since January of this year I’ve been spending 40-60 hours per week trying to save our 33 year old institution that is ourContinue Reading
With Remembrance Day Nov. 11th. coming up soon I was thinking how much our Veterans were and are, heroes. I can’t even imagined what they went through fighting to preserve our freedoms. Our soldiers past and present are all our heroes. My Dad was in the Army and apparentlyContinue Reading
A friend loaned me Joan Levy Earle’ s book, ‘ The Legacy of C.W. Kyte’. It is a great read. It brought back a lot of memories of days gone by for me as a youngster and teen growing up in Cornwall. Joan and her husband bought the store fromContinue Reading
The buzz is that the Centre Culturel, which currently sits in a building owned by City Councilor Brock Frost will be moving into the Cornwall General Hospital where it will open a French Art Gallery and Library. The group is taking over a large 1000 square foot space as wellContinue Reading
I love that image that an area photog did of moi. He meant it badly, mostly because he’s kinda young and probably never understood or watched Citizen Kane. He’s an example of a young person in Cornwall, with some talent, who sold his soul to get the loveContinue Reading
CORNWALL Ontario – Tonight council will most likely be giving out nearly $50K to an architectural firm for a feasibility study to create an arts centre in Cornwall or as many in our city are calling it, an utter waste of tax dollars. The community has written cheques to outContinue Reading