The record, 6 septembre 1985, Supplément 1

""l JPhotD by Ÿtxvj Bea^ „ 2—TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1985 Eating, drinking guides are fascinating history One of my favorite pastimes is searching through the bins at used book stores, or attending garage sales in the area in a quest for books concerning food and wine.Often as not I come away empty-handed but occasionally, very occasionally, I discover a rare treat in the form of an “eating and drinking guide”.I use this term — one of self-invention — simply because I do not know how else to describe this type of book.Popular before and during the first half of this century, eating and drinking guides invariably give the author’s personal reminiscences concerning the food and wine found during, let’s say, a trip to France, as in H.Warner Allen’s, Through the Wine Glass.Or perhaps they take the form of notes on wine and food sampled during a particular period of time as in the case of The Bed-Book of Eating and Drinking by Richardson Wright.I must say, that there is a certain touch of the voyeur that leaves me so entertained by the eating and drinking habits of the wealthy and famous.On the other hand, these books are also a fascinating historical guide to the gustatory indulgences of past ages.For example, who can resist musing over the delights of a meal outlined in The Bed-Book of Eating and Drinking taken by the author and his friends in the fall of the year in which prohibition was banished.What delight they must have taken in the Consomme Double au Sherry or in the Filet de Sole Anglaise au Vin Blanc matched with a 1929 Gewurtztraminer?Wine Bits By TIMOTHY BELFORD Imagine the smiles on the faces of these men, denied the delights of the table as they had been by the rabid prohibitionists, when they feasted on the Vol-au-Vent Ris de Veau Financière taken with a glass of Haut St.Emilion 1929.And the Faisan Rôti au Jus! What possible wine could have been more apt than the Clos de Vou-geot 1926?Excessive?Perhaps.Then again, we humans are doomed or blessed with the necessity of eating in order to make our way through our allotted three or four score years.And why should it not be done with a certain style and joy?Even the simplest meal of the day can be more than toast and jam with a little thought and a little creativity.Though I must confess, champagne would probably help.Cheers! Best buy of the week.The Mon-tresor 1982 Soave Classico, presently on sale locally for $6.45 a bottle, is well worth a look.Straw yellow, with a pear-like bouquet, it seems to have good balance and a fresh taste.It is also a Superiore which gives it a higher-than-usual 12 per cent alcohol content.THE REAL B.Q.IN MAGOG THE BEST CHICKEN IN THE REGION AT THE COUNTER OR DELIVERED AT YOUR DOOR THE CHEF CHOICE * (full meal) $325 $550 'A chicken ‘/j in legs * at the counter only ORFORP> 196, Sherbrooke St.MAGOG Winter hours: Closed Monday Tues.Wed.Sun.from 10 a m.to li p.m Thurv, Fri.Sat.from II a m.to 11 p.m 843-6833 Quitting la tough, but It's worth the effort.Join the Majority — Be a Non-Smoker.$5 Several new buildings will be needed in order to reopen on the scale planned, but volunteers and donations are already making the task look easier.'¦&** » ¦ V ?fî.HPHi : : Bands team up to help camp open By Laurel Sherrer LENNOXVILLE — Three local bands, possibly four, will team up with the St.Pat’s Old Boys Association this weekend to help raise money to reopen the association’s summer camp for children on Stoke lake.Bourbon and Lace, with Debbie Drummond, Idle Hands and High Level (formerly Jumah) have confirmed their participation in a concert and corn roast to be held at the camp Sunday, and there may be another band joining in, said Peggy Barber, representative for the booking agency Es-trie Productions.“There's something for everyone,” said Barber; the country western fans, the rock and roll group and the Top 40 commercial devotees.She said the bands' participation is a sacrifice “in a way, because at this time of year the bookings are picking up.But I think they will enjoy doing it too.” The Old Boys are the alumni association for St.Pat’s school in Sherbrooke which closed in 1969.The association ran the camp with the goal of providing healthful outdoor activities primarily for disadvantaged boys in the area until about ten years ago.At that time, much of the revenue came from raffles, but new provincial restrictions made this practice too difficult.RUN ITS OWN CAMP For the past ten years the association has been renting the camp out to organized groups such as scouts, but has had nothing to do with the operation of the camp.Now, after three years of planning.the association is confident it can open and run its own camp next year.“To get the camp ready will cost $160,000,” said association secretary-treasurer Henry Cro-chetière, “and we’re gonna get it.One way or another there’s gonna be a camp.We’re back in business,” he said.“Our main goal has been to try to help the kids who need it.We’re looking at kids who’s have to hang around the streets of Sherbrooke if we didn’t have the camp.” It was Crochetière’s mother who started the camp, in 1934.There were no buildings then, except for an old farmhouse, and the boys slept in tents.Now there are 16 buildings and plans for another nine to be built before the camp opens next year.The Old Boys have applied for a $100,000 grant through the Ministère de loisir, chasse et peche and Crochetière says he’s optimistic about getting it.But even with a lesser grant the camp is going to open, perhaps on a smaller scale, he said.SUPPORT ENCOURAGING And community support so far has been encouraging.All the food for the corn roast Saturday was donated by local merchants, and there have been offers to build six new cabins for no charge, offers for discounts on tools, an offer of three days of free bulldozing, donations of a tractor, 12 canoes and 12 boats among other things.“When local people were ap- proached, they said, ‘St.Pat’s — that’s the gang that runs the camp.We can’t refuse them,”’ Crochetière said.He said the demand for spaces in similar camps in the area shows how much the St.Pat’s camp is needed.Camp Claret on Lake Elgin had to close applications in March this year because all the spaces were filled, he said.Mike Butterfield, vice-president of the 350-member association, says he wants to see the camp succeed because he has good memories of camping there as a kid, and later working there.“It’s done a lot of good for me and a lot of my friends,” he said.“This is where most of my time is spent — helping out the camp.I’d like to give 30 more years of my time.” The music and munching start at 4:30 Saturday and will continue on into the evening.Tickets are available at Estrie Productions 174A Queen St.in Lennox-ville, at the Old Boys’ Association office at 82 King West in Sherbrooke, or call 569-1930.Or you can get one at the camp when you arrive.St.Pats Old Roys Association Vice President Mike Butterfield and Secretary-Treasurer Henry Crochetière say one way or another there will be a camp next year.I \S TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1985—3 Historical home eyed for future cultural centre By Laurel Sherrer LENNOXVILLE — The Len-noxville-Ascot Historical Society has its eye on “Uplands”, the Speid property in Lennox ville, as a new home, and is dead set on raising the money to acquire it.Not only will the 14-rooin Genr-gian-style house b«:'t to 1862 provide ample space for ¦> museum, archives, meetings and all soils of activities the society is planning and dreaming about, but buying the property will ensure that another piece of the area’s history is preserved.“So many of the original buildings in this town are gone, and have been replaced by service stations and parking lots,” said society president Muriel Brand at a press conference Wednesday.“We are very much afraid that with this house on the market it will be lost as well.” The Speid family is supporting the project and have given the historical society first option to buy, before offering it on the open market.RAISE $150,000 Now all the society has to do is raise the $150,000 required to buy and do a few necessary renovations to the building.It may seem an ominous task, but with volunteers and suggestions popping up from all directions already, organizers of the fund-raising drive are optimistic about its turnout.“The project has been very well received,” said Joseph McKer-cher, co-chairman of the financial campaign.“It’s a real community effort.” “I'm really amazed at the re- sources we find,” said Brand.“Everybody’s got connections, and we ll bring it all together.” The campaign is being launched in style Sunday, September 15 with a garden party and band concert on the property, (50 Park Street, Lennoxville) from 2 to 4 p.m.Volunteers have already been lined up to bake about 100 appie pies for the event, and there will be ice cream and coffee too.A group of young musicians from Alexander Galt called “The Gay Nineties”, directed by Bruce Patton, will be providing the music.This event will go on rain or shine, the organizers say, as a tent will be available.But even with 50 or 60 volunteers pitching in for the opener, work has only begun, said McKercher.“Our objective is to have approximately one-third collected by December,” he said.After the garden party, the next task is distributing brochures with mail-in donation cards door to door in and around Lennoxville.After that, some activities are already scheduled, and others are expected to develop as more people get involved.“We think a good portion (of the funds) will come from groups,” said McKercher.“We hope they’ll see it as their own project for a fund-raiser.” MUSICAL EVENT The Bishop’s University department of music has done just that, by organizing an appropriate musical event, which they’re calling “An evening with Miss Bowen”.Friday, October 25.Miss Bowen is Jessia Eliza Bowen, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel G.W.Bowen, the first Uplands has an interesting history that forms an important chapter in the history of Lennoxville itself.i III -iii W'S'&l - ¦¦ ¦ * " zm- ¦fl î w * F'V W-'_- ¦m J .' i- mû mm, The Lennoxville Ascot Historical Society announced their plans to buy the Speid property at a recent press conference in an elegant sitting room of the building.jmmmm mayor of Lennoxville, and Eliza Jessie Wyatt, the first organist at St.Peter’s Anglican Church in Sherbrooke.The Bowens were well known in the area for their musical interests and talents, and the family had an enviable collection of piano and instrumental sheet music, now in the possession of the Bishop’s University library.Drawing on this collection, and using period furnishings and costumes, the music department will recreate the musical soirées held in the elegant Bowen home on Prospect Street in the latter part of the last century.All proceeds from the evening will go to the historical society for the purchase of Uplands.CULTURAL CENTRE “The possibilities for this property are almost unlimited,” said Brand.She sees it as a cultural centre with a museum, archives, a large room for meetings, and an art gallery.There is great potential in the barn as well, with a large loft that would be ideal for children’s theatre, and the woodworking shop of Arthur Speid, with most of his tools from around the 1920s still intact and in their places, providing another taste of the past.Although the major thrust of the campaign is to get community support, the society is looking into government help, both provincial and federal.The local representatives have been contacted, and have shown significant interest, said Brand The historical society has 140 members, up from just 65 a year ago.With the help of various grants, the society has been able to expand its activities over the past few years.This summer, two students were employed through the federal job program Challenge ’85, allowing the museum to hold regular hours for the first time in its existence.The society has sponsored bus tours, published a catalog of its holdings and put together brochures for walking tours of the area.INTERESTING HISTORY The Uplands property has an interesting history that forms an integral part of the history of Lennoxville itself.As the society’s literature explains, the Honorable William Bowman Felton, squire of “Belvidere” was given title as original grantee to two acres in the centre of Lennoxville in 1824.A year later he sold part of it to Ezekial Elliott, who sold it in 1845 to Gabriel Caron, one of the earliest French Canadian settlers in the area.John Paddon of Compton purchased the land for farming in 1861, and the next year built the house that stands there now, calling it “Uplands”.He passed the farm on to his daughter Julia Agnes and her husband Canon A.C.Scarth, rector of St.George’s church.Arthur Speid, a friend of the family, bought the property from the Scarths’ sons in 1918, and it has remained in the family since then."FLAMBOYANTE CARMEN!’ /.//< Pirvunth.I.ti Pmsi «a.62 WEDNESDAYS : SPECIAL ; MEEnEms I n film tic I RANŒSCO ROSI Ill.lA MIG F NliS-JOHNSON PI A( IDO DOMINGO?I AHU I SHAM RI GGI KO RAIMONDI VERSION FRANÇAISE General Admission $5.00 Cinéma CAPITOL 565-0111 59 KING est Sherbrooke Mon to Fri 8:00 Sat, Sun & Tues 2:00 p VISA I f SI If Al RECORD/PERRY BEATON 4- TOWNSHIPS WEEK—FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1985 Revised guide to literature an Kaleidoscope By RICHARD LONEY The Oxford Companion To English Literature, edited by mar-garet Drabble (OXFORD): $29.95, 1168 pp.When Sir Paul Harvey published his Oxford Companion To English Literature in 1932 he could not have known what a wellloved, well-thumbed guide to reading and books his tome would become.Fifty-three years later the Companion has been revised, resulting in a substantially longer text, which retains only 15% of the old book.English novelist Margaret Drabble worked for five years to make sure that the new edition continued the past tradition, and also scanned the contemporary literary scene.Writers born up to 1939 are covered now, and room is made for many who have not appeared in previous editions, such as Ogden Nash, Malcolm Bradbury and Tom Stoppard, among the poets, novelists and playwrights respectively.Some of the points of difference between Drabble’s volume and Harvey's are found in the former’s tendency to be more willing to give a critical judgement on writers, and to trace changes in their reputations through the years.Central texts of English literature are given much more de-tailed attention than before (three double-column pages de- voted to The Canterbury Tales); seminal figures such as Dickens are accorded separate entries on all the major novels, their characters, his publisher and his illustrators; writers and topics previously regarded as “nonliterary” are treated, including The Beatles, Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Arthur C.Clarke, Comics and W.H.Smith Ltd.The Companion remains an invaluable source for finding the plot summaries of novels and plays and outlines of the themes of poems (works such as The French Lieutenant’s Woman, The Caretaker, and Four Quartets), as well as an alphabetical key to quickly identifying literature’s fictional characters from Flashman to Kurtz to Widmer-poor or Yakimov.Movements in literature such as the Angry Young Men, the Beat Generation, and Structuralism, may be easily found, plus important names associated with literary criticism, such as Chomsky, Leavis and A C.Bradley the revered Shakespearean.With more than 7,000 entries, the Oxford Companion To En- glish Literature is a mammoth work that even those casually interested in literature and its rich history will find indispensible due to its fine blend of the scholarly and the popular, and the informative nature of the reference book itself.RECENT PAPERBACKS The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike (FAWCETT-RANDOM HOUSE): $5.95, 344 pp.John Updike’s wickedly witty modern spoof of New England witchcraft, as practised in contemporary America, is a delight to read.Sparkling with his dexterity with language and the inventiveness of an always fertile imagination, Updike’s Witches is the story of a small coven of divorced but hardly celibate witches who find that a new arrival in their small town — the dashing hot tub host named Darryl Van Horne — opens the door to some magical mystical moments.Readers who let themselves in for Updike’s captivating storytelling will readily agree with Time magazine’s choice of The Witches of Eastwick as one of the five best works of fiction of the year.RECORD REVIEWS Paul Young THE SECRET OF ASSOCIATION (COLUMBIA) The biggest male vocalist out of Britain since David Bowie or Cliff Richard, Paul Young is also the blue-eyed soul singer who single-handedly stole the LIVE-AID SHOW with his exciting rendition of “Every Time You Go Away”.The album that is currently zooming up the charts even as Young tours Canada and the U.S.is a tangible ear treat attesting to what the fuss is all about.Young, who favours following the career footsteps of crooners such as Sam Cooke, shows how to get every possible inch of performing punch out of a voice that is less than spectacular.Young’s pipes are fog-hornish, sounding as if he has a perpetual chest-cold, or whiskey-throat, but this only adds to the soulful delivery, especially on the terrific arrangement on Darryl Hall's tune “Every Time You Go Away (You Take A Piece Of Me With You)”.The album, (the title of which is really meaningless, having been culled from a want-ad in the London Times searching for a secretary for an associated group of companies), The Secret of Association, is a blend of soul classics, such as “I’m Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down ”, and several tracks written by Paul and his keyboardist Ian Kewley such as “Everything Must Change”.Strong contenders to jump out of HOTEL m LE BARON DINING ROOM HAS PREPARED FOR YOU A Special for September Frogs Legs served with vegetables 795$ served between 5:00 p.m.and 11:00 p.m.Mondays to Fridays Music every night with Camylle Robert 3200 King Street West Sherbrooke, Quebec Reservations: 567-3941 invaluable reference THE OXFORD COMPANION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE NEW EDITION ¦-COnTBHY-1 MARGARET DRABBLE tic hit with a cover version ot "California Girls”, then surely the Beach Boys’ catalogue is ready for pickings by a wide variety of artists.After listening to CALIFORNIA PROJECT by Papa Doo Run Run most of them will forget it and go on with the much simpler stuff to clone like the Motown heritage that Phil Collins and his ilk keep pilfering.This five man California specialty unit has been covering the Wilson Bros & Friends for over a decade, appearing for 9 consecutive years at Disneyland, plus doing concerts with Jan & Dean, as well as appearing with original members of the Beach Boys.his album as Young’s next North American single could be “Standing On The Edge”, or the aforementioned Young-Kewley tune, both of which allow the British balladeer to strut the good stuff that has carried Young into the hottest ticket in recordom.Part of the credit for Young’s emergence as a one-man Hall & Oates must go to the three backup singers who lend such soulful support—George Chandler, Jimmy Chambers and Tony Jackson are used with tasty dexterity by producer Laurie Latham.Young’s band sounds like it could sit in for Stevie Wonder or Lionel Ritchie anytime, so the soul licks certainly add to the effect of the vocals.Paul Young’s North American debut was only a natural follow-up to the sight and sound of almost 100,000 Wembley Stadium rock fans chanting the lyrics to his monster hit — over here the reaction has just been delayed, certainly not abated.Papa Doo Run Run CALIFORNIA PROJECT (TELARC-POLYGRAM) If David Lee Roth, dubbed by Rolling Stone’s Dave Marsh as “the most obnoxious singer in human history”, can score a gigan- The CALIFORNIA PROJECT takes the music of the Beach Boys into a 32-t.rack digital sound studio, hooks up a Mitsubishi X-800, and rolls the tapes to capture what the Beaehies would sound like under the Japanese state-of-the-art audio conditions.The result is astounding! This album, merely an adjunct to the Compact Disc format for which the project was designed, is uncannily perfect in its reproduction.The presence, the eerie cap-turing of the five players’ breathing between phrases quickly attests to the kind of recording fidelity that is going onto the tape.Papa Doo Run Run’s faithful duplication of every note and intonation of the original songs is even more breathtakingly dead-on than the Stars On 45 tribute to the Beatles a couple of years ago.From “I Get Around” to “Barbara Ann”, the songs are covered definitely, with a track like “Help Me Rhonda” especially popping out of the grooves.Papa Doo Run Run pay the Beach Boys the sin-cerest form of flattery with their digital delight CALIFORNIA PROJECT. TOWNSHIPS WEEK-FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1985-5 Sherbrooke art show has something for all tastes By Laurel Sherrer SHERBROOKE — The Caisse Populaire de Sherbrooke Est is hosting an exhibition of art works from the Galerie de l’art Français de Montreal for the next month, and it’s worth putting yourself out to see.With about 20 artists’ works, there’s a real variety, so something is sure to please or intri- gue you.An acrylic by Stukely artist Christian Deberdt greets you as you climb the stairs to the gallery at 2 Bowen South, and you’ll see more of his work as you move along.Although he claims his approach to art is “do whatever you want to do”, there is among the four or five of his works shown here a consistent emphasis on Bibeau’s life size slice of life produces the effect of looking out a street-level window.seasides and riversides.Making use of expanses of pale, dreamy pastel colors, wonderfully contoured sand-dunes and gentle highlighting, Deberdt’s work is a celebration of purity and simplicity of form.His works all feature people, placed assy-metrically so as not to dominate, still seem an integral part of the setting.STARTLING “Frisson” (Shiver) shows only a little girl huddled in a beach towel, with the sand and sea behind her.You don’t even see her face, but the child-like pose and startling three-dimensional quality make you want to give her a hug to keep her warm.“Chateau de Sable” likewise plays on the appeal of children, placing four small boys on the beach of any child’s dreams, busily piling up the moist sand to build sand castles.Probably the most astonishing work in the show is an untitled piece by Claude Bibeau.As if looking out a low window toward the street we see the backs of three lifesize, males wearing jeans, and a bit of the crowd of people beyond them.And it really is like looking out that window, the effect is so incredibly true-to-life, down to the metal Lee tag.Carole Lafontaine, a Sherbrooke artist, has one painting on display at the Caisse gallery.She uses photographs of people to do faces, saying it enables her to make them more lifelike and capture emotion more effectively.Her untitled work is a watercolor, with a young girl’s face taken from life, but the misty mountains and sea in the background complete fantasy.“I want to make people dream,” Lafontaine said at the show’s opening.“I want people to feel good when they see my work.” A DIFFERENT VEIN In a different vein, (as all the works on display are in completely different veins), is “St.Henri" by Myuki Tanobe, a Montreal artist originally from Japan.A charming city street scene, rendered in a somewhat child like one-dimensional manner, but with enthusiastic attention to even such mundane detail as the Coke signs on the stores, provides a loving look at life in a city neighborhood.The exhibition also includes works by Fortin, Richard.Suzor-Côté, Riopelle, Scott, Dallaire, Moisan, Souli Kias.Ben David, Jones, Rochon, Lafontaine, Masson, Cosgrove and Gransow, so there's something for every taste.Jean-Pierre Valentin, owner of the Montreal gallery, said it is entirely by co incidence that the works he brought from Montreal for this exhibition include those of three Eastern Townships artists.“It just happened they were part of my gallery.” he said."I don’t go for a specific region.If something is good it appeals to anyone.” ,-‘f .¦ - - -~4 0% ; ,«K H r gÿiç T «1 ¦ ti, -j** 1 < yv