Hi TriciaG
Thanks for the comment on the cover and giving me an excuse to explain.
The image is of the Old Brewery Bay on Lake Couchiching - looking out from Stephen Leacock's summer home in Orillia (Orillia the presumed model for the town of Mariposa in Sunshine Sketches) ... the home is now a Canadian national historic site and museum see https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=10582 - the white building on the right is of the reconstructed Leacock boathouse ... where, on the second floor, Leacock wrote Sunshine Sketches in 1912 ... the reconstruction has been used a children's play area and writer's retreat of sorts. The clouds in the painting represent the imagings flowing from the boathouse: my wife did this painting for me a few years ago ... with the silhouette of Leacock in his favoured hat ... teaching a boy to fish ... suggesting I was learning to laugh and think from Leacock ... but using it on the cover of the book, I think of it more as the boy inside Leacock who is musing on hometowns and reminiscing ...
Cheers
Dick Bourgeois-Doyle
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Wow - that makes it even more special!
You HAD to read this work, just to use that image as its cover.
You HAD to read this work, just to use that image as its cover.
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