Tag: Shaw Festival

• O Canada

  29 August 2025 As the Felon-in-Chief (FIC) continues his ignorant and depraved assault on our good neighbors to the north, I have returned from the charming Niagara-on-the-Lake (that’s Lake Ontario, NOT the Lake of America) feeling more embarrassed than ever to be a citizen of what my late husband often called the Un-tied States.  My…

  georgeannmurphy

  August 29, 2026

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  American Falls, Brown Bess musket, Fort George, Fort Niagara, Harbour House, Horseshoe Falls, Kitchen76, Niagara Botanical Gardens, Niagara Falls, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Prime Minister Mark Carney, Queen’s Royal Park, Rainbow Bridge, Shaw Festival, Two Sisters Vineyard, Whirlpool Aero Car

• Homecoming:  Union Station and the Pousse-Café

  20 August 2026 Union Station in downtown Utica, New York is a Beaux-Arts beauty:  15,000 square feet of rusticated granite and buff brick with a 47-foot vaulted ceiling supported by 34 marble columns.  The station’s construction necessitated rerouting the nearby Mohawk River, a grand gesture.  Twelve elegant benches heated by steam pipes and vents incorporated…

  georgeannmurphy

  August 20, 2026

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  Manicured traffic medians, Pousse-cafe, Queen’s Royal Park Niagara-on-the-Lake ON, Shaw Festival, Union Station Utica NY