Portrait of my godmother, Mary Rauton, taken in the back yard of Janice Spellerberg's home in Toronto, a few years ago. Note - she holds in her hand a hand rolled cigarette from tobacco grown in the back yard of Ragnarokr (when it still existed). If I recall correctly, she told me that this was something she learned to do (grow and cure tobacco) as a child in the Depression, living in Atlanta. Of course, my memory could be cloudy. She did show me her tobacco plant, but I don't have a photo of that.
And while on the subject, here is how Ragnarokr, the boutique leather shop in downtown Toronto, in the so-called American Ghetto, got named.
