Wednesday,

20, 1998

Review asked you:

How do you feel about the idea of putting a movie theater.in the oid Sidney bingo hall?

ar Soe : ‘Shirley Pippy

- that building. I'd use it be-  . movie theater here about 15-

watch a tnovie.” ae

Put An Argyle Sock In It i
May the god of the Tundra forgive n me. May the Frigid Furies
who guard the spirit of the Great White North have mercy on my.
soul. [ arn about to utter the starkest of Canadian her esies,
Here it is: I've heard enough: . Stan Rogers., ‘
: “There. Isaid it, ~
_« Not that] don’t admire the man. He was a fine.
writer of songs with a wonderful ringing voice...
and a mesmerizing presence i in concert, not to}
~. mention on cassette, LP and CD. It's just that |
‘T've,..heard enough of him’ for awhile. ©
“And that goes for the Barra Macleans, the"
Rankins, ‘the Irish Rovers, ’ most of - Sarah
-McGlaughlin—or any musical group within ten
- feet ofa fiddle, a bodhran or apenny whistle. ° '?
_... I's Celtic Overload I'm suffering from, Every
‘ time Iturn on the radio J hear Celtic music...
I'd like, just for a while, to hear something—
. anything-—else . And before you accuse me of
petty nationalism or outright racism, allow me (y,
to present my own, impeccably plaid Celtic os.
credentials,

lochs of Clan Gregor.

‘As my uncle Jaian so inelegantly put il, years ago: “Fear not my
boy--you come from a long Lowland line of Por ridge-eaters, deer
poachers and sheep molesters.”

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“Sidney” Sidney
, We need one. it’sinacen- oo “Gs a great idea. There
- tral spot and it’s good use for. used to be a privately. owned

‘going downtown. It’s a good
~ thing for. senior citizens be-—

20 years ago. The population :
more to do. It would be alot”
ae _ more convenient here. I don’t”
all. the . sway. to. Victoria. to ». ae

“cause ‘it’s. local. I can just
a walk there instead of of driving . has grown enough now for
downtown.” | ‘ _ Supporting one. I hate going

anymore, even though icame
~ froma a big city (Montreal): fe

~ the barbarian hordes of ‘middle Gaul’—

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‘The name is Black, I hail from the heather-clad hills and rtaty"

“Celtic.” It's certainly a venerable word. ‘he firstreferences ap
Ss peared in Ancient Greek and Roman times, when the word was.
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Y think it’s an excellent
idea. It would make a great

(<r ee
‘T’d like it. It’s closer than

cause it gives them something. ‘moved out last May, and I

feel safe walking downtown: i

Victoria.”

Julius Caesar refined the term, using it to refer specifically to

- what became modern-day France and Germaniy.

Somehow, i in the intervening two millennia, the term c came. eto

describe the barbarian hordes who spoke a gut
and Breton.

| whole notion of “Celtishness”
~ flat as a pint of day-old Guinness...

-versity in England, maintains that. use of the label
very “simple and atiractive picture” that our an-
3. bogus,

horse; that we've created a mythical Celtic cul-
what: he maintains were essentially mere

‘fringe communities’ of ancient Britons, °..
“And rma sure 1 don’t need to tell you that Professor James has to

be very careful which pub he chooses to have a pint in, of anv”

use out of the bingo hall that

“think there’s a definite de-

mand for a theater here - es-
“pecially | fer the older people
who don’t. want to drive to.

—in other words, fauch of

- Simon James, an archeologist at Durham Uni

James claims we ‘ve put the cart before the:

|. tural family of languages including Welsh, Gaelic. a ee

And there's at least one expert who thinks the .
—bagpipes, shille. -
Jaghs, tartans and leprechauns—is a crock. As Be

: ‘Celtic’is historically unfounded, Saysitwaspartofa

cestors invented for themselves—pleasant, but |

ture and romantically superimposed it onto a

evening. There are Celtic patriots who would cheerfully. run him

~ out of town ona greased caber, ;

don't know whether Jaines is on to something or not, ‘but I do

know that anyone, be it an archeologist or barfly, should think ie

ver y carefully before telling Celts that they're a crock, :

~~ ter all, the Celts have a long history of honorable behavior,

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