Gabrielle Roy's House and Me
08/05/2005 06:30 p.m.
This is me in July '04, in front of the Gabrielle Roy
heritage house in Winnipeg area, Manitoba. Our French-Canadian writer of The Tin Flute and many other literary contributions fame, lived here happily until she was six, when the family, under financial duress, had to leave. She visited it later in life, wrote about it often, and in the loft with the view from the third floor over the street at the front (looking out from this shot) on display was a section from her journals (I believe it was) in her own handwriting, in which she described how often she was inspired while sitting up there looking down on the street. I particularly loved my little time to myself exploring up in the loft, that day, and sensing her presence.