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Three years ago Kathy acquired her. first loom, second-hand one she describes as “pretty ald,, butl figure : i she’s experienced,” Kathy _has sewn: her interesting. fabrics Into vests, blankets and pillows, She showed me an (unspun’ wool {blanket made from natural fibres and dyed with things collected from her garden — tomato vines and the like. =; . Kathy describes hersolf as a “fibre artist” and, besides, -. 4. weaving yarn and wool on a loom, she also weaves rafia * ; and cane into a variety of interesting baskets, small and large, and each one different. Many of these baskets are seattered around her Robson home, holding collections of Eabereiipe and odds and ends, KATHY ARMSTRONG . ; . Recently, th thanks to Axel Nielsen, w we ran‘one person's of tha 1 and i ope. at Halcyon Hot re = This week, using the valued clippings from the Matt Rohn scrapbooks, we are able to give at iter pleture of > the old:man afd his-hotel: One article, ‘written by Kathleen Lymberg in the Nelson Daily News, about 1954, states: >. No road has yet reached Halcyon Hot Springs « on the northern tip of the Arrow Lakes. From Nakusp we were passengers on the Interior Tug and Transport Company's small launch. (The Minto was out of service by this time.) For some distance the launch was tied to the barge and ; tug, but we landed: at Halcyon under the, , power. of our, own diesel: engine. Waiting at the ond of the long Lshaped wharf. was, : : his two‘ black ‘spaniel pups: at a heel. Though the General, is 83 he ~-earries his six feét erect and moves as quickly as a young Ff man. (Bunny, who was there in 1948, remembers him‘as ‘ -Mboing spare, active but small, and somewhat stooped. Anyone else. recall-him?) The steep climb of one to two hundred feet is nothing to him, either pushing a wheeled cart or carrying suitcases. ‘-Haleyon Hot Springs isa bigs white four-story. building standing nearly flat: against. the hillside. Part of the extensive verandah dining and drawing rooms there are 18 bedrooms, all lofty rooms. A row of substantial cottages further up the hill ” gould accommodate 40 more guests. Underneath the main building are the hot pools. The men’s 3 3's pool has also sweat rooms and. cibicles. ‘The temperature of the water can n be regulated, but is usually the same as a really hot bath. Hot water pipes from the springs surround the rooms. No, further heat is necessary. Entering on the ‘ground floor the panelled sie contains a concert grand piano, a grandiother lock, ofl paintings ‘and Japanese pictures." - ART COLLECTION General Burnham loves to tell where and how he made - his collection of curios and pictures. ° “Bvery picture has a story,” he says. “These T bought in London: I liked them.” ‘They bear no signature, but are “goft. tinted heads of girls after the style:of Greuze. “This Japanese watercolor ‘is the last painted.” The artist shortly afterwards went blind. This (an appealing * portrait of a small terrier) was given me.by a Russian General. He was head of the Czar’s army and told me he had fought one hundred battles and never been beaten.” The General paused. Was he remembering or was he doubting? “Ah,” he continued, “I wanted him to come to- Canada. I wrote, but the general was ‘living in’ South Austria.” General Burnham was born at Peterborough, Man. His family were lawyers but he front is glassed: As well as lounge,, In ‘addition to colled Indian baskets, she has d with an “ ” type which: Incor- porates ‘patterns ’ of holes and: spaces’ throughout.’ I admired a ‘small sleigh in which Kathy had interwined pieces of rafia over galvanized metal. ap “You don’t mind if I work on these while we “talk? she asked nie. “I've got to get them done for Beavers.” Sho sat on the floor and in front of her were the beginnings of a dozen little baskets that her son Derek’s Beaver group would have the privilege of finishing ‘that evening. Kathy’ orders rafia’and, cane from *Toronto’and it arrives in huge bundles which must be soaked before it can be worked. Soaking keeps it’ from eee cand breaking. Rafis, which ‘looks like crinkly brown. grass, comes from the underside of palm leaves: I learned that cane, which is must stiffer than rafis, comes from the inside of rattan.* Locally, Kathy collects pine’ needles and feathers which Kathy Armstrong has baskets, small ‘and large, and ‘each one different fibre artist; This most ancient society dates to the Youndation of the Hospital at Jerusalem-in the 11th ‘century. General and Mrs. Burnham were held in great esteem « + by ‘the’ people of .the Northern: part ‘of the Balkan. . : Peninsula, now Albania; so much so that a sculptor was sent to. Halcyon to make: bronze busts, which, on ~ completion, were to goto their capital’ city, Cettinje. However, war and the Iron Curtain intervened so'that ” tho bronzes never left Halcyon. They stand there at the foot of the stairs by the dining room door, the General wearing the uniform of the Montenegrin. Army. 8] DOCTOR At one time General Burnham travelled as a ship's . doctor. across the Pacific..In‘China and Japan he found * many opportunities for his collecting hobby. : “Look at. these Japanese. watercolors,” he will say. “They are fire artists.”:Then, picking up a beautifully carved figure “from a Chinese inlaid’ cabinet, “these Chinese figures, everything has a "meaning —a preacher carries a‘ horse's tail, women are carrying loads \and knitting, this boy has a pack sack on his back, a book in’ his hand, he studles as he Havels: Yes, they all mean something.” -?- “Moving on, “thts iti ig: British C i of a log chute was sent me bya lawyer from Moose Jaw who used to come here.’ Then we paused in silent admiration of a picture depicting an Italian fruit shop, hot sunshine, white walls, « - : brilliant vegetables and fruit. “A fellow traveller on board a ship to'China painted that,” and almost as an afterthought, “I cured his wife.” A;round painting of Byron on porcelain with very ornate velvet frame. “Picked that up in Baltimore when I was studying at John Hopkins.” A strange North African mirror, round with:frame of woven string or grasses perhaps. “Bought that’ in Vienna.” A Chinese screen inlaid with ivory birds and water reeds, Viennese screen an inlaid. wooden nut bowl. from New Zealand, a ingicnt Persian. rug in soft blues and magentas, all hay “. TOWIFE'S MEMORY f I enquired about “The Shrine.” This is a chapel-like ‘building about 10 minutes walk along a rocky trail from the main buildings. The General built it in memory of his wife who died several years ago. Her grave is there. The shrine stands among the tall silver birches by the side ofa tiny gurgling stream, its steep gabled roof of a pale _ green, with darker green shaked walls and ends picked . out in white and dark’ brown like timber and plaster. On small entrance’ verandah are two large bronze plaques. 7+ Inside it is like a French drawing room, but too cold for stately ladies. A lovely green patterned Persian earpet covers the floor. There are graceful:lyreback chairs and three museum pieces of Buhl. This ornate and ‘elaborate doctor’s career has taken him all over the world. Daring the First World War, with Mra. ‘Burnham, he the medical side of the Montenegrin Army, and worked to alleviate the sufferings of the people there. « After the’ War he returned to Canada and p was it d bya century. The mosaic tops are of tortoiseshel and brass, the legs and drawers being carved with lions’ heads and all heavily gilded. At the head of the room is the big console table, on the side asmaller daintier card table and Haleyon Hot Springs. Under the ‘White Cross he whas carried on the work of healing: rheuimatle ‘complaints at - this unique establishment: Many have been the cures; all visitors suffering from the aches of this painful disease - can: tell of the comfort of the hot pools.::. Mention should. be made of several fine old printa hanging on the walls of the upper stairway. These show former Grand Masters of the Order of the White Cross. cabinet. These pieces the General saw in.a shop window from the top of a London bus. He safd they’ were made for Napoleon. Halcyon. Hot Springs, built in the nineties, has seen , many people come‘and go. It houses treasures. It has healing’ streams. What does the future hold? Here is _ Scope for an enterprising and original development. The general was not the only ‘character’ at Halcyon — his Old Mule Jack also had a legitimate claim to Jane, during the 18th ’ CASTLEGAR NEWS, February 10, 1982 -LINDA HALL Getting to Know Your Neighbor she-also weaves into her designs, She sells her baskets mostty on consignment, and + admits they are expensive. Sho pointed to a large colled basket and said, “there's about 200 hours of work in that.” A small open-weave type sells for $40 and represents about 26 hours of work. In one corner were boxes full of yarns of many colors. I was curious, can you make baskets out of yarn? I asked. “Oh yes, they make real nice fluffy baskets. You can get that phentexy stuff,” but then she conceded that “the natural stuffs a lot better.” She picked up a couple of tiny bird house baskets with small round holes in the center. She says that she's going to hang these out as soon as spring comes. Kathy repairs wicker and explains, “so many people are buying wicker stuff. It's so neat..They even have these wicker parties. But who fixes it?” She recently repaired a large doll carriage and has done lots of other chairs and furniture. ‘Batik is another of Kathy's crafts. Beginning. with a mixture of beeswax and paraffin she forms designs on a piece of pure white cotton. Then the eloth,is dyed and dyed until the artist is satisfied with the color. Kathy also crochets and knits. She told’ me, “I get bored very easily so I go from one thing to another!” She. calls handwork, “a great occupation for ramen front of the TV." . where Kathy lugged out a large bale of hay and She ts'a member: of the Selkirk Weaver's Gulld, and also “the fledgling” Kootenay Boundary Artisans Alli-’ ance, a group of artists, potters, and weavers who seek to promote the arts throughout this area, Besides textiles, Kathy: is also a:-weaver of words. A year ago she decided to write down some of the thoughts and ideas that course through her mind as she sits hour by hour at a basket or at her loom. “it comes from being a habitual talker,” she told me. “People would say to ms, ‘don't tell me about it, WRITE about it!’ ” So she did. +’ She signed up for the creative writing course offered through ‘Selkirk College's Continuing Education Pro- gram, and now, besides all her crafts, she manages to find the time to sit down once or twice a week to write. She is a member of the newly-formed Kootenay Writer's Group in town. “As I'm weaving I think about writing, and then when I have the time I sit down and write the story.” She told me -that she thinks she would like to.write a book’ about basket weaving. A logical choice, I thought: With a dog, five cats,.two guinea pigs, three ‘horses, three geese, 70 chickens and a tankful of goldfish, Kathy is also the queen of a menagerie. “Animals are neat,” she maintains. “They’re-furry, I like their texture. ‘You can talk to animals and they don't talk back.” I met Gordon; a Golden Retriever. of which Kathy and . s+her husband Jim are very proud. While I was there the clock struck four‘and Kathy turned to me. “You wanna see my critters? It's feeding time you know, four o'clock.” 80.1 donned my boots and followed her. outside where she hitched up ‘the toboggan to ‘Gordon's shoulders: ‘Thom we made (oar way, Rowa,to the: bern strapped ~ it onto the sleigh. “Mush, ‘Gordon,”. she hollered. She and. ° Gordon (and myself tagging alorig behind) trotted up to the horses. “I like animals,” she said: again, | “the more the merrier!” Besides. asain up with weaving and crafts, ‘Kathy -also grew up with animals. She was born in Revelstoke and got:her first horse when she was 10. During her growing- up years she lived in a number of places, among them Chetwynd, which'Kathy describes'as “that place with three seasons; mud, dust and winter.” Soon after she met her husband Jim, in Castlegar, the couple moved to Saskatchewan, then to Kamloops where they “had one kid and’ got another horse.” Jim: is currently employed at Cominco and he and Kathy have two children, Jenni, 4; and Derek, 5, who are d signs of ing in their mother’s and grandmother's footsteps. . While we talked, Kathy sat crosslegged on the floor starting those little Beaver baskets and Jenni and Derek were to one side stringing colorful wooden beads. They made bracelets, necklaces and cat collars. Derek likes to make baskets, he tela 8 me, and made. one for his teacher for Christmas. “Reflections & _Recollections thofigh perhaps for slightly different reasons. Another are article inthe Nelson Daily News (no byline) ‘states: Old Jack wan fr many yours as much apart of Halcyon Z as the ‘water-from ‘the springs. Old Jack's age was uncertain, but it was estimated that at his death he had worked and-lazed for more than 50 summers. He was originally brought to the country with.a number of other * mules to work on the construction of the CPR through the Rockies. From the-Revelstoke district he was taken to the Kaslo-Slocan séction. Eventually he found a home at’, Halcyon where hig chores were much less ‘arduous than those required: of him: while on railway construction. Old Jack was a wise‘and knowing animal. If he was required to haul wood or hay, he was likely to be AWOL until he thought the ‘chore was finished. During the tourist seasons'of his last few years. he seemed to have accurate knowedge of the days and times of the arrival of the “Minto” and when the time came to:hitch him to the small cart used to haul the visitors luggage’ ‘up the wharf to the hotel, Jack would be off in the woods and couldn't be found until all the luggage was delivered to the hotel. Then Jack would come back, moving among the visitors - to be admired, petted and fed tidbits. Old-timers tell how adept Jack was at spilling his load, especially if it was a heavy one. Regardless of how much iver coaxed or beat him, once Jack had -avatlable the early el "STAN SHERSTOBITOFF: ‘displays bottl that: ‘originated from’ vet Hof pt Springs. He also-made low. .