Steve, you wrote:
<Which reminds me....on one of the old
tape trees, doesn't Joni introduce "Carnival in Kenora" with a
story about Kenora being an Indian word meaning "Lake of the
Pontoon Planes"? Am I making this up?>
No, you're not. I'm currently trying to transcribe the audio interviews
for Les's site and am working on the WMMR interviews with Gene Shay, Part
1. She says that she made up that story I think just to see if people
would believe it. Here's the excerpt:
"And I use to give all this folklore on stage, and it used to be all
completely inaccurate because I really didn't know anything about the town.
All I ever saw of it was from a train window, and I happened to be looking
out of the side of the train that the town wasn't actually on, so all I saw
was a sign that said "Kenora" and a big lake and big rocks and big trees
and the lake was covered with pontoon planes. So I thought that was all
that was there, you know. And I also thought that Kenora was an Indian
word, and I used to tell people that it meant 'land of many pontoon
planes.' (Laughs) That wasn't true either."
I'm glad you spelled Kenora for me. I think I was about to spell it
"Canora" (but I probably would have double-checked around Les's site before
finalizing it ; )
Lindsay
