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A sure sign of the yuletide season in Tavistock is the cheerily-lit Christmas tree at the five corners. This year marks the 80th year we’ve had a community Christmas tree. And it’s all thanks to the Men’s Club.
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The headline in the London Ontario Free Press read “Paris Cable Announces The Great War Is Ended - Armistice Was Signed By Germans At 11 O’clock This Morning”. It was news the world was waiting to hear.
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What does the Historical Society find interesting about this Almanac? It isn’t the full-page ad for “Florida Water” which, we’re told, “represents the mythical fountain of youth while it brings to memory the perilous adventures of the illustrious Ponce de Leon in his exploration of that land from which this most popular of all perfumes derives its name”.
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The Tavistock Room at the museum / archives showcases the best-of-the best local history artifacts. One prominent item is a sign advertising the Tavistock Fall Fair. This sign was discovered by chance in a pile of lumber put up for sale by Edgar Vogt when he retired from his shop on Minerva Street many years ago.
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People interested in Tavistock history have so many resources to draw on. We have books like “Fact & Fantasy” and “Crossroads In Time”, pictures from the Lemp Studio Collection, items in our museum collection, records in our archives collection and articles in our local newspaper, the Tavistock Gazette. All of these resources came into play for this short story about lawn bowling.
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Searching for Grandma’s wedding picture? Want to find out about Uncle Albert, the uncle everybody called “the skeleton in the family’s closet”? Interested in learning more about an organization in Tavistock?
All of this and much more is now available in the digitized Tavistock Gazette newspapers accessible on the computers at the Tavistock Library.
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The first owners of the beautiful home at 164 William Street South were the Charles Hanke Family (1922 - 1996). The second and current owners are Rob and Shelly Gingerich (1996 - present).
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Sometimes an item has more questions than answers. This “picture” was found in the Tavistock Men’s Club Hall in a standard-issue black wooden frame with a handwritten “circa 1917” note on the back. It was only when the frame was removed that we realized the “picture” was a “postcard”.
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“One man who helped to shape our community’s history and left his mark through his exceptional skill as a woodworker and master mechanic was John K. Lemp”.
… extract from “Our Heritage” (Tavistock Gazette) dated February 5, 1997
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Reading and writing and arithmetic were unquestionably the mainstays of school life in years gone by. Ask any student who attended a one-room schoolhouse their favourite memory and almost everyone will say "the Christmas Concert".
