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Fall 2019 - Volume 35
• Photo: Merchants Softball Team Wins All-Ontario Championship - 1965

• Take me out to the ball game!

• 1965 Merchants Softball Team wins All-Ontario Championship

• A premier fastball pitcher (Keith Wagler)

• Tavistock Merchants 2006 ISCII World Champions
Food that really schmecks!

Spring 2019 - Volume 34
• Putting a date to Tavistock Postcards
• 
Wettlaufer Cider Mill, Sebastopol: A trip to the patent office

Fall 2018 - Volume 33
• Parades in Tavistock (1897 - 1901 - 1918 - 1919 - 1950's)

• People and events in the news 1918

• Winhold Wedding

• George Mackay’s Store

• Tavistock 1918: World War Ended
• 
7 Woodstock Street South: Wall art makes a splash

Spring 2018 - Volume 32
• Gazette archives at the library

• Former Tavistock resident licenses first homebuilt kit plane
• 
Tavistock clock at the Canadian Museum of History

Fall 2017 - Volume 31
• Photo - THE WILLING WORKERS
• 
Tavistock ... It was 1917

• Privates Weston, Buchan, Nettleton and Comrade …
• 
Early immigration: The Hanke family in Tavistock

Special - October 2016 - Volume 30
• Tavistock: It was 1916

Fall 2016 - Volume 30
• Hickson Community 4-H Project - 2016

• Servicing the Township: Council, fire department, post office, library, park, railway
• 
Boys Scouts and Cubs

• The railroad comes to town: Sir Joseph Hickson

Spring 2016 - Volume 29
• The Milkman: By Barb Matthies
• 
Tavistock Produce & Egg Circle
• 
Santa Claus Parade: A festive Tavistock tradition since 1939

• Insurance at a premium: A brief history of South Easthope Mutual Insurance business

Fall 2015 - Volume 28
• Main Street Memories

• Tavistock: It was 1915!
• 
The way we were: Old photograph captures life in 1902 
(Maxwell Binders - J.W. Lingelbach)

Spring 2015 - Volume 27
• Ron Rudy:Tavistock’s longest serving police constable: Police badge collection surpasses description
• 
Tavistock Police History: Town Constables 90 years on the beat

• Special Service Force receives US Congressional Medal of Honour

Fall 2014 - Volume 26
• A HISTORY OF SCOUTING/GUIDING

• Beer, bonnets and boxcars: Tavistock in 1914 was a bustling hub of commerce

• Trophies of 1914
Scouting in Tavistock

Spring 2014 - Volume 25
• Time takes its toll on a village: Cassel just won’t be the same without 100-year-old sawmill

• Black Shirts gain respect: An excerpt from “Raising the Rafters”

• Memories of Cassel by Lyle Roth

• The Cassel we knew! - Hamlet was once a thriving community

• Hobby tough on fingers (Ed Kaufman)

Winter 2013 - Volume 24
• Not in Kansas anymore: Cyclone hit the area in 1929

• Pillars of the Community: A Tavistock Women’s Institute project

• South Easthope landmark: Andreas Wilker homestead razed

Fall 2013 - Volume 23
• Opening doors to the past

• Casper Mogk homestead: Lot 21/22, Concession 6, South Easthope

• Till death do us part: Funeral rites and customs

• Fall Fair Facts: Things you may not know about the Tavistock Fall Fair

Spring 2013 - Volume 22
• Tavistock’s first survey - Surveyor Shuball Park - 1819

• Martha Wilker saw first train come into Tavistock

• From the Outhouse: Stories gathered by Mary Nicklas

Winter 2012 - Volume 21
• Standing room only: The Christmas Concert

• A very special Santa
• 
Notes on Christmas
• 
One Christmas Eve: A Christmas truce during World War I

Fall 2012 - Volume 20
• The Family Farm: Herb and Cecil Wagler

• God Save the Queen: Royalty display celebrates Jubilees
160 Years of the Fair
Tavistock’s first businesses: Corner block has been home to many entrepreneurs

Spring 2012 - Volume 19
• 10 YEARS - 2002-2012 - The First Decade

• We’re marking a milestone! - We’re 10 years old!

Winter 2011 - Volume 18
• Building a Village: Christian Frederick Conrad Krug

• Hand-lettered illumination a gift from a grateful congregation

• J.C.Penney and Tavistock?

• The Year in Review

• Sincere Thanks: Taylor McCutchen
• 
Quilt donated by Idella Schwartznetruber

Fall 2011 - Volume 17
• 100 Years of the Tavistock fire service

• Genealogy researcher finds home: Armand Schaefer
• 
A history of the printed page: The Tavistock Gazette

• Fall Fair Sign

• Fire brigade fights stubborn blaze two hours:
 Planing Mill of C.L. Erb & Sons Destroyed Sunday Morning (Feb. 23, 1941)

Winter 2011 - Volume 16
• Dr. Bruce Halliday: DOCTOR, POLITICIAN, FAMILY MAN, FRIEND ~ June 18, 1926 - January 1, 2011

• Vintage tea services in Quehl’s Atrium

• Home Children Update

Fall 2010 - Volume 15
• Carnegie Library ends an era

• Children create a legacy - 2010 - Year of the British Home Child
• 
Calendars ~ August 7 to October 30

Spring 2010 - Volume 14
• Check Your Real Estate
Stone, bricks and mortar

• The survey says ...

• Down on the farm ...

Winter 2009 - Volume 13
• 100 Years Ago
• 
Tavistock Among The Worth-Whiles

• Front Page news
• 
Tavistock Fall Fair

• The Kids in Quehl’s Atrium
Tavistock Artists

Summer 2009 - Volume 12
• Fill ’Er Up: Old Cars and Garages
• 
Century Farms catalogued
• 
Games people play

• Farm free-for-all!

Winter 2009 - Volume 11
• Swastika: Ontario’s first gold-producing mine

• Dr. Michael Steele, Tavistock

• Quehl’s Atrium

• A Victorian Christmas!

Fall 2008 - Volume 10
• Ancestors Wanted: Dead or Alive

• Ross Butler: World’s leading livestock artist

• Tavistock Fall Fair display

• The display in Quehl’s Atrium

• Hobbies and Collections: Glass and Bottles
• 
The Donnelly story comes alive: by Robert Salt

• Christmas at the Museum

Spring 2008 Special Edition - Volume 9
• A century of memories at the Oxford

• 100 Years at the Oxford Hotel: Frederick and Arthur Liebler

• Ruby, Bannerman and Yarich

• Tavistock has always liked its beer
• 
Did You Know?

Winter 2007 - Volume 8
• Bless This House: Our Churches

• Who was the first to set foot in Tavistock?
• 
All Aboard at Quehl’s Atrium

• Year of the Veteran Project

• World War Songs

• Museum at the Fall Fair

Spring 2008 - Volume 8
• Zimmerman’s: A Family Business
• 
Swastika Mine: 100 years later
• 
All Aboard! for the Atrium

• Tavistock: A Sports Town

• The Rabbit Drive

Fall 2007 - Volume 7
• Land of Milk, Cheese & Honey: The Matthies Family - Pioneers and Mainstays In Tavistock

• Strike up the band

• Marking Time

• Honouring our Veterans
• 
Remember when?

• Quilts Galore!

Spring 2007 - Volume 6
• Tavistock’s Village Smithy: Michael McDermott - 1847-1927

• Chairman’s Message: Ed Pellow

• Honouring our Veterans
• 
The Flax Industry in Tavistock

• School Days: Reading, writing and arithmetic

Winter 2006 - Volume 5
• Emerson Weitzel’s General Store: by Marilyn Pearson, granddaughter of Emerson Weitzel
• 
Honouring Our Veterans by Susan Pellow

• Behind the Scenes
• 
Images in Glass

• Museum Themes

Fall 2006 - Volume 4
• Wood Carvings and Old Farm Toys

• Just like Dad’s: A display of farm toys
• 
Carving Decoys is not what it used to be - by Ed Pellow

• June was all about weddings

• Welcome visitors!

• Family Histories

Spring 2006 - Volume 3
• What is The Lemp Studio Collection?
• 
We have Charitable Status
• 
Who’s in your family tree?

• Who is John Lemp Jr.?

• Crossroads in Time: A pictorial history

• DVD commemorates Year of the Veteran ...

Fall 2005 - Volume 2
• Rotary invests in 5-year plan for Society

• W. O. Kaufman memorabilia donated
• 
Travelling display at Doors Open Oxford

• Society acquires antique display cases

• Tavistock and area veterans in the database

Spring 2005 - Volume 1
• History comes alive here in Tavistock!

• War veterans of Tavistock and area

• Everything old is new again!

• Museum/Archives opens

• The Life and Work of Reginald Franklin Selfe (reprinted from the Tavistock Gazette, November 1, 2000)