London: 150 Cultural Moments

London has long been a centre of government, law, and industry for South-western Ontario, but the Forest City has also been centre-stage to many other national and international cultural happenings. Music fans might have heard about Johnny Cash’s famous proposal to June Carter at a local performance, but how many people know that it was local DJ Dick Williams who debuted The Beatles to North American audiences, kickstarting Beatlemania? Or that The Rolling Stones started a riot at the arena Treasure Island Gardens? Literature lovers might know that Alice Munro published her first short story in Folio at UWO, but did you know that legendary American poet Walt Whitman visited the London Insane Asylum in 1880? If you’re a Londoner, you probably searched the comics for Ting’s “Luke Worm,” but did you know that famed painter Paul Peel couldn’t sell a painting in his hometown, and went broke? Film buffs know that London is the hometown of some familiar Hollywood faces (Hume Cronyn, Kate Nelligan, Victor Garber, Paul Haggis, Ryan Gosling, and Rachel McAdams), but did you know that Canada’s first full-colour feature film was made here?

London: 150 Cultural Moments is full of… well… 150 such fascinating, fun, and unforgettable—if not always well-known—moments, which will make you look at the city of London and its history a little bit differently.

AUTHOR

Jason Dickson

Jason Dickson operated Jason Dickson Books (formerly Muskoka Bookshouse) in Bracebridge, Ontario. His work is published by BookThug, and has appeared in Quill and Quire, Maine Antiques Digest, Geist, Kotaku, Canadian Notes & Queries, Fine Books and Collections, Rue Morgue and Open Letter.

Vanessa Brown is an antiquarian bookseller who consults on early and rare editions and ephemera for the L. M. Montgomery Research Group. A freelance writer, editor and local historian, she is the author of The Grand Old Lady: A History of Hotel London.


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Dimensions:

200 Pages
8.50in * 9.00in * .50in
1.00gr

Published:

August 01, 2017

Publisher:

Biblioasis

ISBN:

9781771961707

Book Subjects:

HISTORY / Canada / General

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Language:

eng

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