100 Years of Plowing
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This year (2021) marks the 100th anniversary since the International Plowing Match was held in Oxford County.
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Shunpiker Introduction
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Hands up if you have been on a shunpiker? Hands up if you had great fun on that road trip? Without question, it’s always the same number of hands for both questions. Shunpikers are fun.
Shunpiker Route #1 - Tavistock to Hickson
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What house in Tavistock has a name?
Ever wonder what school days were like in a one-room schoolhouse with all eight grades?
Shunpiker Route # 2 - Tavistock to Shakespeare
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The five corners is the heart of Tavistock. On which corner did it all begin?
Did the German flag really fly in Tavistock?
Tavistock Continuation School - 1927-28
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If you look through your copy of Fact & Fantasy, written and compiled by Carl Seltzer as a Rotary Centennial Project in 1967, you will see a section on the Tavistock Public and Continuation School.
St. Anthony’s among-the-tiger-lilies
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Nestled at the bottom of a knoll on “Pork Street” north and east of Tavistock is the oldest Roman Catholic Church in Perth County. Located at 1956 Line 33, one concession east of Road 107 between Tavistock and Shakespeare, St. Anthony’s is a gem of early architecture.
Everything old is new again!
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Where do you draw the line between old and historic?
It’s hard to believe but 40 years ago three editions of The Tavistock Mail were published as the first historic information newsletters to predate the current Tavistock and District Historical Society’s newsletter titled “Yesterday.”
Smallpox In Tavistock 1873-74
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The current Covid-19 pandemic was not the first serious outbreak to hit Tavistock and area. The files of the Gazette reveal that there have been many diseases through the years that have been of concern to citizens of the community. One disease that was in many ways similar to our current Covid-19 pandemic was the outbreak of smallpox that occurred in 1873-74.
Life Is What You Make It
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Babs Lemp had an unquenchable zest for life, a relentlessly positive outlook and a winning personality as big as all outdoors. One would think she had it all. That same Babs Lemp spent her entire life in a wheelchair, had severely arthritic hands and was almost completely blind. She was, in her own special way, the epitome of the saying “life is what you make it”.
The Eel Immortalized
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The ladies arrived in their finest outfits and many wore designer hats, not unlike those worn at the Royal Ascot races in England. The men wore their black ties and jackets. However, this occasion was not for a race to be run, but for one completed; the sometimes lengthy heat to the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame.
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