Description
The gravestone of George (Twitter) William Johnston, a well-known clown from the Pictou area, is located in the Pictou-Haliburton Cemetery.
It reads:
"GEORGE (TWITTER) WILLIAM JOHNSTON
March 29, 1889 - April 29, 1962
'To talk beneath the moon
To sleep beneah the sun
To live in a land of going to do
And die with nothing done."
It reads:
"GEORGE (TWITTER) WILLIAM JOHNSTON
March 29, 1889 - April 29, 1962
'To talk beneath the moon
To sleep beneah the sun
To live in a land of going to do
And die with nothing done."
George "Twitter" William Johnston
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- Legacies in Stone collection, photographs by Adam J. Cross
- Added
- May 29, 2015
- Contributed by
- Susan Parker
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