At first there were four brothers and now there are six: Mark, Chris & Bradley, Dean, Mike & Ryan, and Jason. They represent generations of Tiessens who have been in farming – an example of how a plant grows. The kind of ‘farming’ they do has lured universities from around the world into their sphere, […]
In Memory of Maria Braun Fast, 1899-1939
Pelee Island was my home for the first nine years of my life. Mom had come to Pelee in 1925; Dad in 1930. My earliest memory goes back to the summer of 1939. I was seventeen months old and Maria Fast was dying of Tuberculosis. Her husband Peter Fast was mother’s cousin. Their children were […]
About Our Footprints
Footprints…what are footprints? When I hear this word I see the poem “Footprints”, in my mind, or other footprints along the beach disappearing when the waves wash over them, or many footprints in the snow where children have been playing and which disappear with new snowflurries. Here, at this place, we have decided that the posts […]
