Rebecca's Trail
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This little nature guide describes, with humor, a small section of the Grand River Trail near Kitchener, Ontario, in Autumn.
Lenny Everson
List of Completed Works by Lenny Everson (As of November, 2014, over 36,000 copies of Lenny's works have been downloaded.) Novels • Death On a Small, Dark Lake. 67,700 words. Our hero snags a body in a remote lake. • Death on a Rocky Little Island 71,500 words. Our hero convinces a friend to take a canoeing trip to the 30,000 islands. • Mount Moriah 50,000 words. A strange sequence events involves a priest, a poet, a CSIS agent, a space alien, four horny teens, among others. My most fun fiction. • Last Exit to Pine Lake. 45,000 words. A dying writer goes back into the bush to off himself. Grimly literary. My best fiction. • Ally Oop Through the Ulysses Trees. As much fun as Mount Moriah! • Marley Was Dead: A Christmas Carol Mystery Novelettes • Granite and Dry Blood. 9,700 words. Our hero wants to write a book on Massassauga Park. Various people would prefer that he didn't. • Death on a Foggy Spring Portage. 11,800 words. One member of a paddling group is found dead on a muddy portage. Screenplays • Murder on a Foggy Spring Portage. One member of a paddling group is found dead on a muddy portage. Plays • Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont. Ghosts of the two Métis leaders meet in today's world to remember their lives. A short (20-minute) play for two actors. Full-Length Poetry Books • The Minor Odyssey of Lollie Heronfeathers Singer. A middle-aged woman tries to connect with her aboriginal ancestry. • In The Tavern of Lost Souls. Four poets meet at a grungy bar once a month to give their poetic answers to random questions. • Love in a Canoe. A set of five chapbooks and a songbook about the love of canoeing. With illustrations. • Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont are Dead. Ghosts of the two Métis leaders meet in today's world to remember their lives. Includes the play. Poetry Chapbooks • Encounter in a Small, Old Cemetery. Autumn. Midnight. Poet visits a small, old private graveyard. Best poem I ever wrote. • Fire and Ashes. Poems about life's flames and regrets. • The Empty Tarmac of a Long-Abandoned Airport. Poems about having a midlife crisis. • Love Poems A compilation • Pray for Me: 22 Poems Probably Slandering God and Jesus • Ballads from an Unlucky Fisherman: Poems from a fisherman • Tweetable Limericks. 60 limericks small enough to be tweets • Hiking Poems. Co-Authored Poetry Chapbooks • Who Would Be a God? ...
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Rebecca's Trail - Lenny Everson
Rebecca's Trail
A Section of the Grand River Trail through Kitchener, Ontario
In Autumn
By Lenny Everson
rev 1
Copyright Lenny Everson 2011
For Rebecca
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The Trail
In 2006, my daughter, Anita, and her daughter, Rebecca volunteered as trail monitors for a section of the Grand River Trail through Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. So I named the section of the trail for my granddaughter.
The section goes from Victoria Street (Highway 7) to the next road, Bridge Street East.
When I walked it with my friend, Al, in the fall of 2006, I had not expected much: this is a major urban area, and what isn’t strip malls is usually corn fields. But I was, from beginning to