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Sharon Berg A life in words …
See Sharon Berg’s reflection on life with the painter and printmaker William McClure Brown |
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My Photo Album (Coming soon ~ you’ll be able to click on the thumbnails to see larger pictures)
Great Grandma & Grandpa Anderson: The Anderson Family, Circa 1882, Sweden, This is their wedding picture, circa 1875. just before leaving for Ellis Island, USA. It was taken in Sweden. They settled in the Dakotas, close to the Sacred Black hills of the Sioux.
I am with my sister Cathi and my brother Danny. My parents on Lake Superior on a The big fellow in my lap is Tomcat, a wild fellow . family boating trip. I took the photo.
William Brown: the artist and the Here is one of a series of “woman in Hat’ father of my two oldest children. portraits that William executed in 1974.
Here is apicture that speaks volumes. The Minister who married us saw a I wrote in my album above this picture, couple in trouble when the bride kept “Bride and groom? Yes. Change of name? No.” picking up her daughter... Both he and my husband thought a man came first for a good wife.
Here is Ila, age 6, in her Grade One year : My neice, Apryl (left), with Ila in schoolyard. Here is a girl who always wore a smile. These girls were close as sisters growing up.
Sharon by Mt. Rundle ,1982. I participated in the Sharon in a meadow along the Bow Rr. in Advanced Writers Workshop at the Banff school of Banff, Alberta. This was a life expanding Fine Arts with seven other Canadian writers. experience.
Brynna was welcomed into the family by her big Brynna on a trip to Toronto Island with big sister ,Ila, who had begged for a sibling. her father, John McCullum.
This is my best male friend, Marty Singleton, Marty was an accomplished photographer with his girlfriend, Courtney, in 1983. in addition to being a respected poet.
In Grade 6 for Ila and Kindergarten for Brynna This is an Open House event. The school My children were students at Wandering Spirit has since been renamed First Nations Survival School and I worked as a volunteer. School and remain on Toronto Board of Education’s list of alternative schools.
John is an Environmentalist and he made Robert Billings was very important in my sure the girls knew how to start a fire growing understanding of myself as a in any weather. No one eats at his camp writer. fire unless they help to set up.
This photo was taken at A-Space Gallery Here is my favourite photograph, not just In Ottawa in 1985. This is the face for the because everyone looks good but because voice on the recordings of my work. we are all three together.
This is my student photo at UBC, taken as Here are Ila (left) and Kirsten (blue streaks) I arrived in Vancouver in 1998. The rain in the yard of Ila’s house. It is the summer made my hair curl always. of 1999 in Vancouver, B.C.
Shawn and I met while we both lived in St. Shawn’s brother Daryal came to visit Catharines. This photo was taken on a trip and we took him to see the World to Port Dalhousie. Wonder known as Niagara Falls.
In 2001, I was reluctant to have my photo This is Pooh Bear, our cat, in his preferred taken. It was the year Dad went into resting place, especially when Kirsten was full time Nursing care. around. (The obligatory pet photo.)
The girls both came to visit us for Christmas This is our Sharpei, Winnie. The breed is in 2003, while we were living in Brampton. also known as the Wrinkle Dog, though it is what is referred to as a ‘face breed’.
Finally, if you persevered through the This is Shawn sporting a handsome new Album, this is me in 2006. ‘do’ in 2006.
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Established January 3, 2006 |
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This photo was taken in Toronto, circa 1978. |
