fajrdrako | Archives and old pictures... (Reply)

Today I was working with archive material at the Ottawa Little Theatre - people's old scrapbooks and clippings and photos and letters and so on. Some of it was fascinating, some irrelevant, and some trivial. Sometimes it was fun reading news items on the back of clippings. For example, from The Ottawa Journal on Monday, November 18, 1968 - exactly forty years ago:

RARE MURDER REPORTED

LONDON (Reuters) - An 80-year-old spinster was found beaten to death Sunday in the first murder on the Scottish island of Lewis in more than 100 years.

That's the whole item. I wonder what the story was? Did they catch the killer? Have there been murders on Lewis since?

One person had made a collection of clippings of newspaper reports about the huge snowfall we had in the winter of 1971, setting records. I was amused by this aerial photo of Parliament Hill:

The caption read:

Parliament Truce Ahead?

Will the Conservatives and the Liberals bury the hatchet for a while, in the wake of Ottawa's record-breaking snowfall this week? Perhaps the prospect was on the mind of whoever took considerable pains to stamp out this near geometrically-perfect peace symbol in the virgin snow of Parliament Hill's east lawn Wednesday. RCMP, who have seen other peace symbols, "Joyeux Noel," and "Merry Christmas" all stamped out earlier this year, said as far as they knew no ropes or other equipment were used to carry out the stamping of the symbol. (Journal photo by Dominion Wide)
- The Ottawa Journal, Thursday, Feb. 25, 1971

I found programs from the Ottawa Repertory Theatre, with William Shatner in the cast. And Pete Seeger gave a concert in Ottawa in 1958 - who knew?