My son David and I recently visited our local 37th Annual Uxbridge "Steam Threshing and Heritage Days", a wonderful late summer show of steam-operated farm machinery, classic cars, a re-enactment of the War of 1812, with costumed soldiers, musketry and the noise of battle, plus a variety of exhibits devoted to everything from hat making to model railways. My local art club, the Artists of Uxbridge, had a display area and I was one of the exhibitors and volunteers helping out during the two-day festival.
As we entered the building devoted to printing, typesetting and antique printing press equipment, we were both struck by how some of the old-fashioned terms and icons are still current in this era of computer graphics and the wonders of Adobe Photoshop. David is senior graphic designer at TVO, an Ontario public broadcasting station, and works his magic with advanced computer software with results which would have seemed magical even 50 years ago.
John Fisher
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