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Last Person Rural by Noel Perrin
Monday, April 7 through Friday, April 18, 2025
Read by Jim Fleming
Perrin’s second “final” collection of bucolic essays was written eight years after his supposedly ultimate compilation (Third Person Rural, heard earlier this year on CAD)—and it’s another appreciation of rural life and being a good steward of the land told with humor, warmth and a little bit of philosophy as well.
THEME: “Pastorale” by Claude Champagne – CBC Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
(David R Godine Pub; ISBN10: 087923914x)
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Heritage 4 of 15 – Therese Lonsonier
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Heritage 3 of 15 – Lazare’s Journey To Healing
Lazare has returned to Chile but is very unwell both mentally and physically. Lazare Sr. hires a shaman, Aukan, to heal him. At a market, Lazare impulsively joins a caravan […]
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Heritage 2 of 15 – The Lonsonier Sons Fight For France
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Heritage by Miguel Bonnefoy
monday, April 21 through friday, may 9, 2025
Read by norman gilliland
The house in Santiago de Chile, with its lush lemon trees, has sheltered three generations of the Lonsonier family. Having arrived from France’s Jura region with a single grape vine in his pocket, the patriarch put down roots there in the late nineteenth century. His son, Lazare, back from World War I’s hellish trenches, would build in their garden the most beautiful aviary in the Andes. The granddaughter Margot, a pioneering aviator, would first dream of flying, and where she would raise her son, the revolutionary Ilario Da. Like Lazare before them, they will bravely face the conflicts of their day, fighting against dictatorship on both sides of the Atlantic. A dazzling family saga, brimming with poetry and passion, that skillfully weaves together the private lives of individuals and major historical events in South America and Europe.
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