by potential | Dec 15, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Composed in 1742, Handel’s Messiah has become a cultural fixture of the Christmas season. When I heard that some of my family planned to see the Vancouver Chamber Choir & Symphony Orchestra’s performance of it I recognized the name but didn’t know exactly what it...
by John Horn | Oct 16, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Who are you? William Shakespeare. The greatest writer in the History of the English Language. I’m a poet, a playwright, an historian, an activist, and a mysterious figure whose biography, according to guys like Bill Bryson, “has long been a thicket of wild...
by potential | Jul 5, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
One month ago, I accidentally bought a canoe. Jim and I only went to “look” at canoes and ended up leaving the store as owners of a green Nova Craft Prospector. In the months leading up to that unplanned purchase we had been toying with our summer vacation plans,...
by John Horn | Jun 19, 2011 | 100 Community Builders
Who are you? My name is Edward Teach. I may or may not have been born in Bristol around 1680. My career began under the tutelage of Benjamin Hornigold (I’m a fan of mentorship), but then I – ahem – acquired my own ship, Queen Anne’s Revenge,...
by potential | Feb 18, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
When John and Kurt asked me to rejoin their team of bloggers 6 weeks ago I imagined that after completing my PhD in late January my life would get a little less busy in the weeks that followed. Unfortunately this has not been the case. It turns out I’ve been...
