#cobden

Illinois Central, Cobden, IL, 7/1962

Written in 1927 In Wet Weather the Clay Was Up to the Hubs. In 1884 Driver Died Suddenly in His Seat. Stage Stories as Told by I Mr. Townley Boland of Ottawa, Former Eganville Man. In the opinion of Mr. Townley G. Boland, of 540 Gilmour Street (a former resident of Eganville), there are more ex-Ottawa folks than there are Eganville people living in in Eganville. This seems like a sweeping…

and as always when we come here, alex and i, between moans of satisfaction, said to each other, "this is the best brunch restaurant I've ever been to."

this particular day, though, i followed up this exchange with the question, 'do you think that if we lived in a society..." [we chuckle]... "do you think that if we lived in a society not driven by money that we would have dishes as good as this?"

alex said: well the capitalist would say, "if we don't have friendly competition we would never see anything like this."

and I said: and the socialist would say, "if we didn't have to preoccupy ourselves with surviving then we would have the freedom to be as creative as this."

Jury is still out on that but what did come out of this conversation was a reminder in our calendar to come here once a month for as long as we shall live here.