{"id":9652,"date":"2021-07-10T10:38:24","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T14:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=9652"},"modified":"2021-09-09T07:26:27","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T11:26:27","slug":"epiode-385-wall-paintings-by-mr-kuna-islington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=9652","title":{"rendered":"EPIODE 385 WALL PAINTINGS BY MR. KUNA…ISLINGTON"},"content":{"rendered":"
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EPISODE 385     WALL PAINTINGS BY MR. JOHN KUNA\u2026ISLINGTON<\/p>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
July 2021<\/div>\n

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This could have been my grandfather, Ed Freeman\u2026trying to make a living selling produce from his tiny farm near<\/div>\n
Islington in 1908.  Tough times.   Sold the farm and headed for Northern Ontario where conditions were worse\u2026seemed<\/div>\n
all the north was on fire\u2026bush fires.<\/div>\n
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MARJORIE SKEOCH MAKES A DISCOVERY<\/div>\n

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\u201cAlan, I want to show you something wonderful..startling.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cNot another visit to the Salvation  Army used clothing store I hope.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t be silly\u2026I want you to see the street art gallery by John Kuna on brick walls of Islington.\u201d<\/div>\n

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\u201cIslington \u2026 that was where granddad Freeman first settled in 1908\u2026tried<\/div>\n
to run a market garden.  Tough time.  Failed.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cYou might see him in one of the paintings.\u201d (SEE FIRST PAINTING\u2026HORSES AND WAGON)<\/div>\n

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EPISODE 385     WALL PAINTINGS BY MR. JOHN KUNA\u2026ISLINGTON alan skeoch July 2021 This could have been my grandfather, Ed Freeman\u2026trying to make a living selling produce from his tiny farm near Islington in 1908.  Tough times.   Sold the farm and headed for Northern Ontario where conditions were worse\u2026seemed all the north was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}