Category: Thoughts, Musings, Stories

  • Gallery 46: Photos of homeless in 1970s London

    A room in Gallery 46 Gallery 46 is in Whitechapel at 46 Ashfield Road, one of two adjacent Georgian houses. To be admitted to 46, you knock on the door of its neighbour. The gallery occupies three floors of the otherwise empty house. The exhibition was “A Sort of Home”, photographs by David Hoffman of…

  • Alice’s obituary

    WEIHS, Alice Elizabeth (nee Fritsch)Passed away peacefully on February 18, 2015, at the age of 93, cared for by her son Ronald Weihs and his partner Judith Sandiford at their home in Hamilton, ON. Her son Frederick Weihs and her sister Rosemarie Herrell were of great support during her final months. Alice was born on…

  • The Circle Unbroken

    Alice Weihs at her 90th birthday party at PAL. Taken by Alla Palagina. My mother Alice died last Wednesday (February 18, 2015) in the early morning. She was in my house in Hamilton, where Judith and I had been looking after her since last November. She was born on August 27, 1921, and had a…