[PHOTO] Field of dreams, Christie Pit

I love the glow of the powerful lights illuminating Christie Pit's baseball field for night games.

[PHOTO] Fourteen photos of the interior of Beaconsfield Historic House, Charlottetown

One important thing to remember about Beaconsfield Historic House, since 1979 on the official register of Canada's Historic Places, is that when it was built in the 1870s it was a stellar achievement. The Peakes, a dynasty of shipuilders, had grown wealthy on a Prince Edward Island that had reached the apex of its 19th century prosperity. When the Island came to share in the post-Confederation slump of young Canada, part of the long depression, the Peakes lost everything. In a real sense, the expensively fitted-out Beaconsfield can be compared to the expensive mansions of those pre-Crash businesspeople who lost everything after 2008.