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Niagara Falls is perfect setting for a tale of guilt and sorrow
August 23, 2008
Veronica Ross

FALLING
by Anne Simpson

(McClelland & Stewart,320 pages, $32.99 hardcover)

Veronica Ross

Award-winning novelist and poet Anne Simpson has set her new novel in Niagara Falls, a perfect setting for a novel about loss.

The casinos, tawdry souvenir shops and tourist attractions, stories of the crazy daredevils who hurled themselves over the falls, tour buses, honeymooners and suicides are all a contrast to the majestic beauty of the Falls.

It’s a place where strange things happen. It’s also a place I am familiar with as friends and I went on writing retreats at the Loretto Centre for years.

We were peaceful in “the nunnery” as I called it, while a short distance away tour buses pulled up at luxurious hotels. It’s also a place where people live. Olde Ontario, I always think. United Empire Loyalists. Humble cottages sit beside larger places. (more…)

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Biography of hotelier written for his family
Posted By JENNIFER PELLEGRINI

Conrad Hilton’s memoir about going from the owner of a small hotel in a Texas oil town to the owner of a global hotel chain has little to do with Vince DiCosimo Sr.’s decision to write his own memoir.

True, DiCosimo – known to his employees as “Mr. D” – owns one of Conrad Hilton’s hotels. But the similarity stops there.

If Hilton’s reason for penning “Be My Guest” in 1957 was to impart his wisdom on making it big, DiCosimo says his motivation to write “‘Mr. D.’ Una Bella Vita” was quite the opposite. (more…)

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1807 book captured essence of falls
Posted By Zavitz, Sherman

“Niagara Falls surpass in sublimity every description which powers of language can afford of that celebrated scene, the most wonderful which the habitable world presents.”

These words were part of a lengthy description of the cataracts penned by Scottish-born George Heriot in his book, “Travels Through the Canadas,” published in 1807. Heriot was not only responsible for one of the earlier-written accounts of the falls but, as an accomplished artist, some of the earliest paintings as well. (more…)

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Niagara author features local haunts in new mystery novel

NANCY REYNOLDS

Monday, August 27, 2007 – 07:00

Local News – A serial killer walks the streets of Niagara Falls, Clifton Hill, Lundy’s Lane, the casinos – where will he or she strike next?

You can learn whom to fear on the pages of “BaaBaa Black Death,” the second novel written by Beverley Armstrong Rodman, a Niagara resident and former local reference librarian.

Those who read her first novel, “Murder is a Family Matter,” will be happy to reconnect with old friends and well-known locations. (more…)

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A piece of our history

MELISSA CHURLY

Thursday, June 14, 2007 – 07:00

Local News – It was one of those decisions that really didn’t require a lot of thought. Bob Gale found the book online and knew he had to have it.

“I really like the history of Niagara Falls and I’m always searching for all kinds of things,” he said.

A few weeks ago, Gale purchased a piece of Niagara Falls history: A first edition, first issue English copy of “A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America,” containing the first published sketch of the falls and the first eyewitness account. (more…)