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Ground State 


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Death of a Schoolteacher
< on 8/12/2016 2:43 PM >
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I was just posting this gallery on a local exploring page and thought I'd repeat them here. Pics are from a few years ago and I hate my shitty color enhancements back then, but I thought the backstory details might be appreciated.


CL 01
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In Spring of 2011, a resident near my home in Ontario began to notice something was "off" along her morning jogging route. Each day she passed the home of her spirited senior citizen neighbour, and always found the woman outside tending to flowers or sitting on her porch watching the world go by. Knowing that the woman had been single all her life, and not knowing any family to contact, the jogger was concerned enough to call the police. Amazingly, it took them a full week to go out and check the house. But what they saw through her front window justified gaining immediate entry.


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C.L. was born in 1939 into a hard-working Ontario farm family. During WWII, her father operated one of the lift bridges over the canal that joins Lake Erie to Lake Ontario and then went on to manage Long Point Provincial Park, overseeing the maintenance and rental of the 50 cottage units originally there. Very early on, Both C.L. and one of her two brothers got into education. It was a time when teachers were so in demand that the career started right out of high school. Her brother, for instance, had a single class of 52 students, grades 1 through 8 together, when he was only 18-years old. He married his high-school sweetheart in 1963 and eventually became one of northern Ontario’s most sought after fishing guides.


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C.L. began teaching at a little turn-of-the-century school called White Elephant. This began a long and fruitful career where she would become one of the most respected and celebrated music and art teachers in the Niagara Falls region. Her students fondly remember that she always started each class with her famous pitch pipe. Several of them were even inspired to go on to future careers as music educators.


CL 05
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Perhaps the most tragic event of her career took place during her years of teaching at Winger School. She had become friends with one of her former high school teachers, Rosselyn E. As it turned out, Ross was also good friends with the parents of Ann, a 9-year old girl in C.L.’s class. When Ross went off on maternity leave, she would often visit C.L. after school and drive young Ann home. On one terrible and fateful day, the car veered across the highway for some unknown reason and struck a tree. The only survivor of the crash was Ross’ baby, who had just celebrated his 1st birthday only days before.


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C.L. went on to absolutely dedicate herself, unmarried and with no children of her own, to teaching and to music. She retired in 1993 to a simple life of needlecraft, correspondence with friends, and was remembered for almost twenty more years as a dedicated community volunteer, devout church-goer and front woman for a band called the Robert Woods Singers.


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CL 10
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Even in her death, her legacy lives on at the last two school where she taught: C.L. contributed money throughout her career into endowment funds. Through her bequest, the earnings on the funds annually will continue to provide every student at both schools the opportunity to experience a live music or theater performance. Each year one student from both schools also receives a bursary to the instrumental music program of the local school board. Any remaining funds are to be used to maintain or replace musical instruments at the two schools.


CL 11
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In April of 2011, police discovered C.L. inside of her home sitting face-down at the kitchen table. She was 72-years old.


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Her surviving brother was left to deal with her estate. He was indeed able to sell or pass on most of her personal belongings. But elderly and in poor health, her brother has still been unable to deal with her home. It sits abandoned and decaying on a little-travelled rural side-road in Ontario, with an unknown future.


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Little Sister 


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Re: Death of a Schoolteacher
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Awesome post!




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< Reply # 2 on 8/12/2016 3:13 PM >
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The photos are beautiful and the history behind them is wonderful. Thank you so much for sharing! I love being able to know the story behind an abandoned place, and sometimes there aren't enough clues to find out the truth.




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< Reply # 3 on 8/12/2016 3:38 PM >
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Awesome post its great how much information you have on her story. Absolutely awesome that even though she has passed on her story still lives and is appreciated. spectacular set




skatchkins 


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< Reply # 4 on 8/12/2016 4:10 PM >
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Fantastic post. That stamp/thread photo is outstanding.




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just wow. Great job digging up all that history, and adding all the pictures that showed her past life. Wow.




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< Reply # 6 on 8/12/2016 4:18 PM >
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Skatchkins beat me to it. I also love the Thread and Stamps photo. The whole story grabs my attention and is very well done. Thank You for the history and great pics.




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I was so wrapped up in the story, I almost forgot to look at the photos. Such a cool post! Thanks! (:




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Wow, that's an interesting location. The photo enhancements didn't detract to much, if at all, from the quality in my opinion. However, What really stands out is the information. It must have taken a long time to research and compile that narrative, and the story makes the location all the better. Great work.




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Ugh. I always love your posts.




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TheSwanStation 


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< Reply # 10 on 8/13/2016 9:31 PM >
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Amazing photos and a very well told story! I always enjoy the amount of detail in both your pictures and the story you tell along with them. Keep up the good work, I always look forward to your posts!




Dee Ashley 


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I know this thread is old but your narrative and accompanying photos were so impressive, I felt compelled to say so. I love the way you turned this into a biography. It felt like a very well written tribute in honor of someone that will live on a little longer now - I know I won’t forget her story any time soon. Thank you for this wonderful presentation!

* This belongs in that rookie forum’s (I’m totally paraphrasing the title here), “How to make a quality thread.” I guess a veteran member got sick of seeing shit posts of blurry over exposed shots of graffiti dicks and decided to provide some guidance, lol. Anyways, this is very powerful, thanks for sharing this with us!

- DA 🙂




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