Liz Spetz Lascaux is Still the Story
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Near Montignac, France, in September 1940, a collection of prehistoric cave paintings was
discovered by four teenagers who stumbled upon the ancient artwork after following their
dog down a narrow entrance into a cavern. The 15,000- to 17,000-year-old paintings, con-
sisting mostly of animal representations, are among the finest examples of art from the Up-
per Paleolithic period.
First studied by the French archaeologist Henri-Édouard-Prosper Breuil, the Lascaux grotto
consists of a main cavern 66 feet wide and 16 feet high. The walls of the cavern are deco-
rated with some 600 painted and drawn animals and symbols and nearly 1,500 engravings.
Ideal Living The pictures depict in excellent detail numerous types of animals, including horses, red deer,
• Major exterior update completed stags, bovines, felines, and what appear to be mythical creatures. There is only one human
• Large deck located through the figure depicted in the cave: a bird-headed man. Archaeologists believe that the cave was
garden doors from the kitchen used over a long period of time as a centre for hunting and religious rites. The cave was not
• Orchard of apple and plum trees ordinarily lived in but kept exclusively for art and ritual.
One of the paintings is reproduced at the bottom of this page. The drawing is rippling and
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fluid with strength and life. You don’t get closer to the original source of art than this ele-
mental contact with a cave wall and simple mineral-based colours. There is awe in the sense
that these drawings were created by people who knew they were among the least capable
and powerful of creatures; people who openly admired the strength of bison and the elegant
speed of running horses; people who felt small and vulnerable in comparison and were not
at all certain of their continued existence. The world was full of wonder and terror for them.
If they ever caught up with one of these creatures it was a major event and a chance to ab-
Great September sorb some of the impressive qualities of their awesome game. In a world lit only by fire peo-
Films!!! ple were the ones living on the edge of extinction and desperation. We were humble beings
then. That feeling was the soul of art.
Friday, 17th By some trick of fate or intervention over time we became the biggest and fiercest beasts in
The Iron Giant the land. Who would have thought it likely so long ago? We’re neither humble nor small
anymore. We’ve conquered and subjugated everything around us. It’s our domain and we
Friday, 24th run the show. The bulls are bred to specification and the horses run for our amusement. We
Percy Jackson & the have no need of mythical creatures anymore. We’re completely in awe of ourselves.
Olympians:
However, our art has not exceeded our origins. Picasso famously said that after cave paint-
The Lightning Thief ings “… all is decadence.” Or in a sense, everything that followed has just been conversa-
tion. As we lost our awe and fear, we compromised our expression. Maybe that’s why so
Doors open at 6:30 PM much art today is so bad. But, Lascaux and the rare caves like it still attract tens of thou-
Admission Price sands of visitors annually. Each one of them is surprised to be so elementally affected by
$3.50 each what they see. Our souls have not moved a long way from the cave. So here’s one more
‘Bravo” to the Lascaux painters who still send that “Wow” factor echoing down the millen-
Suggestions for movies are nia.
welcome. Please contact:
The Lascaux grotto was opened to the public in 1948 but was closed in 1963 because artifi-
T.rex Discovery Centre cial lights had faded the vivid colors of the paintings and caused algae to grow over some of
Eastend, SK. them. A replica of the Lascaux cave was opened nearby in 1983. The drawings should be
www.trexcentre.ca on everyone’s bucket list of things to see before they die. You can easily find reproductions
(306)295-4009 of the art in books at the library and on the internet. Be sure to see them. JK
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Saskatchewan After the Dinosaurs
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On September 10 the official unveiling took place of the new T.rex Discovery Centre ex-
Come try our new weekly
hibit, “Saskatchewan After the Dinosaurs”. This creative display represents the first part of
specials and soups the Tertiary Period; the Paleocene Epoch. It is a time frame when the flora and fauna, early
on, re-scrambled itself after the extinction event 65 million years ago. Though many higher
Cheddar Mushroom groups of animals and plants survived, and many species too, a significant number did not.
Burger It was the “5th Major Extinction Event” in the history of our planet (long before the appear-
ance of early humanoids).
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Surviving the extinction event was no easy task. And though we may know one of the
Salisbury Steak causes of the end of the Cretaceous extinction, who survived and the time and the pattern of
with Mushroom Sauce recovery is complex and needing more study. For if we can understand the examples of past
extinctions, survivors and recoveries, we may understand the next major extinction event in
our own time.
Major groups like crocodiles, champsosaurs, salamanders, lizards, birds, mammals, fish and
turtles all survived the extinction event. However, since there were more than one species of
each group, some species did go extinct.
Champsosaurs and crocodiles, though both reptiles, each had their own unique evolutionary
history. Champsosaurs in appearance resembled crocodiles, were relatively large semi-
APPLE FESTIVAL aquatic reptiles that would live more in the centre part of lakes and rivers. Like all species,
IN EASTEND Champsosaurus, had thin, tall conical teeth that would easily have pierced the soft flesh of
fish. “Gar fish” may have been a favourite, but these too were active predators. Crocodiles
Eastend Hall, preferred a food supply from both in water and near shore. One of them would have been
Tea Room, turtles.
Pottery Street Replicas of these creatures and more are part of the new “After the Dinosaurs” exhibit. The
display makes this period of natural history come alive and is a significant addition to the
excellent collections available at the T.rex Discover Centre. JK
Saturday Sept. 18th (Extracted in part from Paleocene Exhibit “After the Dinosaurs” by Tim Tokaryk, Acting Head of
Palaeontology Unit, Royal Saskatchewan Museum.)
featuring
Clarence Peters
retired provincial Fruit Specialist Movie Synopsis:
Haying Iron Giant
Have you an old apple tree whose
variety you would like identified? Let it not rain. Let the wind blow "Iron Giant" is an animation
enough to suck the damp based upon the 1968 story, 'Iron
Are you interested in but not hasten the clouds Man,' by the British poet laure-
that bring the rain. ate Ted Hughes. The film is
growing apples?
about a giant metal machine that
Let swallows wing the field
3 pm. Examination and drops from the sky and frightens
looping after bugs, let the baler
a small town in Maine in 1958,
identification not break
only to find a friend named,
Bring a sample from your tree. let field mice scuttle fast from the hawks
Hogarth, that ultimately finds its
but let the hawks
humanity and saving the towns
5 pm. Supper and Apple Potluck be fed. And the
people of their fears and preju-
snakes, may they slide from the baler’s maw
Please bring your own sandwiches dices.
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neon blue on a cusp of sky.
6pm. Clarence Peters presentation: Now the buzzard hunkers in the stubble. Let him gorge
fast and clean as an executioner’s blade.
“Growing Apples on the Prairies.”
The Edge in 5
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let them drink deep – lemon soda, Mexican beer
let the barn fill with hay and the stashed eggs The photo montage on page 5 is
of renegade hens. generously provided by Stephen
The Eastend Edge is a proud supporter of our Langton Goulet. This week it
community and is distributed across Then, rain features colour photos of
North America. September Ducks.
Publisher: Jeanne Kaufman Dorothy Field
Apple Varieties Old and New
Interview with Dorothy Field
Poet/Author/Artist in
Residence at the Stegner House
Born in New York, Dorothy always
longed to live in the country. After
completing graduate studies at UC
Berkley she moved to Vancouver
Island where she lived on a farm for
many years. However, that didn’t
curtail her artistic pursuits. She was a
weaver and became interested in
making paper. That led her to travel
to Asia where she studied and photo-
graphed paper in all its intricate uses.
In Southeast Asia, paper is often
attached to doorways to indicate sa-
cred or pure spaces and to ward off
evil. In Japan, shimenawa, or braided
straw rope is hand made. Sometimes
the rope is woven meters thick in
diameter. Paper is also used for ritual
purification in the Shinto religion;
ambrosia empire jonagold novaspy tumanga
old paper is burned every year and
antonovka enterprise jubilee opalescent ultrared replaced by new in a cycle of re-
blenheim firmgold katja ottawa vanda newal. This type of use of paper is
bismark galarina keepsake pewaukee victory common in many societies and
burgundy gravenstein limbertwig priscilla wellington Dorothy sees it as a metaphor for life
where rice is the physical form of
corail harolson lindamac quinte winesap sustenance and paper is the spiritual
creston hauxapfel macoun regent xavier reflection of this.
delblush hazen magiemer rouville yarlington Dorothy has been a guest of the
delicious itzstedster mahogany splendour zestar Stegner House since August 15th.
earliblaze indared nehou sponselli Her poem “Haying” is published on
page 3 of this edition of the Edge.
Teen Reading Dorothy’s books of poetry include:
at Eastend Library www.teenreads.com Leaving the Narrow Place, Wearing
Specials by Scott Westerfield My People Like a Shawl and In the
Street of the Temple Cloth Printers.
On your sixteenth birthday, how would you feel about being forced to have the surgery to JK
become pretty?
The Uglies series is set at least a century in the future, after current civilization has been Book Review:
destroyed by a bacterium which has de-established all petroleum products, causing wide- New at the Eastend Library
spread chaos. The survivors of this disaster established cities much smaller than those
currently existing, each of which is independently governed with limited traveling. At the Infamous by Suzanne Brockman
age of sixteen, each person undergoes an operation which boosts their immune system Back in the days of cowboys and out-
and reflexes while giving them well-proportioned, symmetrical faces based on an interna- laws, a now-infamous shootout went
tional standard, so that all pretties look nearly identical. They are also given brain lesions down in the tiny mining town of Jubila-
which make them peaceful and compliant. Before they receive the operation, children are tion, Arizona. National hero U.S. Mar-
referred to as "uglies", and are kept separate from their older friends. Later operations shall Silas Quinn saved the city from the
follow to show signs of increasing age while maintaining this beauty, and the lesions may notorious Kelly gang, only to have his
be removed for pretties entering careers which require quick thinking. Pretties who work wife kidnapped and murdered by the
for Special Circumstances, a group which ensures the city's security, are given an opera- ultimate lowlife, Jamie 'the Kid' Galla-
tion to make them look terrifying, become very strong and fast, and have incredibly fast gher. Or so the story goes. One-hundred
reflexes. Specials also receive brain surgery to make them obedient. years later, historian Alison Carter has
In Specials, the third book in the series, Tally is now a Cutter, a new branch of Special made her way to the scene of the crime to
Circumstances. The Cutters, led by Tally's long-time friend Shay, arrive at an uglies party assist in a movie production of the up-
looking for outsiders crashing the festivities to stir up trouble. Tally and the other Cutters coming film Quinn. Little does she know
are disguised as uglies, which causes Tally to feel nostalgic as she watches the poor uglies that waiting there for her is 'the Kid's'
awkwardly interacting. supposed great-grandson, A.J. Gallagher,
looking to put a stop to production and
Tally has been completely remade. Her bones are now aircraft ceramic, light but inde-
the defaming of his relative.
structible. Her muscles repair themselves. She can hear the faintest, most distant sound
through her skintenna. All her senses are supernaturally sharp --- and trouble is ahead. www.fantasticfiction.co.uk
September Ducks
stephen langton goulet
