Langscape – Page 2 – Commission GÉDÉON Commission

Durrell – 49.66° N, 54.74° W

2020-07-13 by GedeonCom Leave a Comment

Close enough to Twillingate to be part of Twillingate, but it is it’s own place. Like most other places agglomerated to form larger entities to support services to the population, they maintain a sense of pride in their own community as its own entity.

I had an illuminating experience at the Durrell museum learning of the Arm Lads Brigade, my upbringing in New Brunswick did not expose me to these stories and I find them to be completely engaging. The idea of creating cultures of discipline and service have always been fascinating because of the way they articulate the social contract. I speak neither for or against, it is simply an observation.

A.L.B. : http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/sgc-cms/histoires_de_chez_nous-community_stories/pm_v2.php?id=exhibit_home&fl=0&lg=English&ex=00000524

Orange is the new “that” colour.

2020-07-08 by GedeonCom Leave a Comment

The “secret” societies, oddly they work for good but do so with a blanket of secrecy that is really interesting. That no members have felt the compulsion to write it all down in a “tell all” book, revealing all the rituals and rites of ceremony is, indeed, incredible.

This seems so anachronistic to the open book policy our affirmative politics seem to point us towards. But again, I am drawn and fasciated with these institutions and how they manifest themselves in the oddest of places.

L.O.L. does not mean laugh out loud here, it is the Loyal Orange Lodge.

My Acadian upbringing in Moncton gives me a particular perspective on Orangemen, but coming to Newfounland and actually getting to commiserate with members of the order, I come to see another point of view. Not excusing past goings on but putting them in their proper context as time and place should inevitably allow us to do.