Hooray!    At last, one I can afford to travel to!

When you all are here in October, I will give you a three story ride in the 
oldest operating open caged elevator on the continent at my curatorial home, 
the Maritime Museum of BC. http://mmbc.bc.ca/experience/bird-cage-elevator/

It will be so weird to have faces instead of just names!

My first year on a fire lookout, I communicated by radio daily with the 
nearest neighbour, a lookout 30 miles away.  The knowledgeable woodsy voice 
and style of speech suggested a wizened leathery lanky woods roamer and I 
developed that picture of Pete in my mind.   After a month, when I got my 
first day off, I drove down the valley to Pete's lookout to say hello and 
see the landscape from his point of view.    There, I experienced the shock 
of my life.   Pete had set up a giant stuffed arm chair on a swivel platform 
in his lookout home (in BC, most of us all lived right up in our 14' square 
lookouts).  Beside the chair was a table with binoculars, the portable 
Forestry radio, and endless beer bottles.   Pete was a giant round 
pasty-skinned couch potato.   He was cheery and friendly and we got on well 
over the table and his homemade potato beer, but the rest of the summer I 
had to live with two faces in mind every time the radio voice spoke to me. 
It was as though Pete had become a split personality, but only split in my 
mind, for he never knew it.

Ever since, I have been careful to avoid visualizations of faces I have not 
yet met, but after all these years on BP, I am afraid some of you have 
sneaked into mind-visual presence.

cp in bc


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ilene R. Tyler" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 6:24 AM
Subject: [BP] Cuba


> Yes, Cuyler, Victoria, BC. The APT conference will be held on Vancouver 
> Island this year. 

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