Please
join the Gatineau Valley Historical Society for an evening of poetry, song and
images celebrating the Gatineau River as Phil Jenkins talks and sings about The
Babbling River: The Gatineau Valley in Verse and Song
Apart
from spending his teenage years in Liverpool, England during Beatlemania, Phil
has been thinking about Ottawa and the Gatineaus for more than 40 years. He has
written for a variety of magazines and is weekly local history columnist for
the
Ottawa
Citizen.
He is the author Fields of Vision and An Acre of Time: The Enduring Value of Place, as well as
River Song: Sailing the History of the St. Lawrence, and Beneath My Feet: The
Memoirs of George Mercer Dawson.
He
is also a singer/songwriter who performs solo, or with the group
"Riverbend." He currently lives in the Gatineau Hills.
Everyone
welcome, and there are refreshments!
The
meeting will be held Monday, March 18, 7:30 pm, at the Wakefield Library,
Wakefield Community Centre, 38 Valley Drive, La Pêche – just north of Ottawa.
The
website of the GVHS is www.gvhs.ca
