Dating through the ages |
With the approach of Valentine’s Day, our thoughts turn to love in all its forms.
Throughout the ages, people have used many ways to meet each other, through friends and matchmakers, on blind dates, and by looking at the classifieds or dating apps such as eHarmony and Tinder.
In all of my books, love has been a dominant theme.
In “Love in the Air: Second World War Letters,” Harry Culley and Helen Reeder (my parents) met at a dance at the YMCA’s Red Triangle club in Ottawa, where he was stationed with the RCAF and she was a volunteer hostess. After their engagement, they kept their love alive through the more than 600 letters they wrote to each other.
In “Claudette on the Keys,” Ida (stage name Claudette) and Harry are two pianists who met as teenagers while playing for the silent movies in the early 1900s in storefront theatres called nickelodeons. The story........