Red Cedar

on the weekend, nathan and i met up in princeton and stayed at a place called the “princeton castle” (tag-line: “escape to history in log luxury”). you can see from the photograph above the ruins which do look decidedly medieval-castle-like but interestingly, this is a crumbling cement factory circa early 1900s. what is odd about the place is the lack of history that has survived other than building itself which is falling rock by mortar into the ground. what follows is the only information the resort provides:

In 1910 there began a gigantic industrial dream to build a “Great Cement City” called East Princeton, with an enormous cement plant and a complete powerhouse. The dream was to cost over a million dollars. It also cost a number of workers their lives. Four years and hundreds of thousands of man-hours by skilled craftsmen, stone masons, carpenters and engineers, resulted in a colossal architectural achievement known as The Portland Cement Plant. But, nine short months later, the dream fell into silence: the plant was closed down. Some say they ran out of limestone from the on-site mountains; some say the coal they needed for the operation failed to appear because of conflicts with the needs of the First World War, and some say it was never meant to succeed. Now, some 80 years later, people are again returning to experience the magic of what has become known as PRINCETON CASTLE.

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i know i said i would post pictures of my weekend trip, but it turns out i forgot to upload them before i left the coast yesterday and haven’t been home (or on my computer) since.

i keep forgetting to post about this – on friday the flying folk army will be playing at el cocal on commercial drive with the amazingly talented norman nawrocki.

Rebel Mouse Productions presents…

from montreal… NORMAN NAWROCKI
with east van’s own… FLYING FOLK ARMY

Friday, October 22 – 8PM
El Cocal – 1037 Commercial Drive
$5/or by donation – All Ages

Norman will blend words, beats, loops, samples & his violin into soundscapes like you’ve never heard… and The Flying Folk Army will close the show with their voices, strings, reeds, wind, skins, and revolution. Get ready to dance!