Ladies of the Lake focus of new walking tour

Masks encouraged at Trent Valley Archives event July 4 and 11.

Lovina Victoria Tennyson will be one of the women featured in the Ladies of the Lake Walking Tour at Little Lake Cemetery on the afternoons of July 4 and 11. She was born in Quebec in 1845, moved to Madoc Township and eventually Ashburnham.

She married Otonabee farmer and journal keeper John Graham Weir on New Year’s Day, 1867. The tour is hosted by Trent Valley Archives, home of the journals her husband kept for 45 years.

Tours are limited to 10 people, including the guide. Precautions will be taken to make it a safe event and masks are strongly encouraged. Tickets are $20 and must be purchased in advance. Call 705-745-4404, email admin@trentvalleyarchives.com or pay online via trentvalleyarchives.com/ events.

TVA is also bringing back the Tragic Tales Tour on the evenings of July 3 and 10.

Online auction

Get your instructions and bidding numbers for the annualbut-first-time-online Keene United Church talent auction by calling 705-295-6692 or emailing treasurerkuc@nexicom.net, and while you’re at it, ask for the links to the online catalogue. Bidding starts June 21 at 9 a.m. and ends June 27 at 5 p.m.

There are loads of items including fresh fudge, baking, maple syrup, honey, candles, a gourmet dinner for six, a pizza evening for six, wooden toys, loads of gravel and top soil, quilts, perennial plants, gardening advice and paintings by Neil

Broadfoot and Lucy Manley.

Journals of J.G. Weir

1914 June 27, Sat.

Lovina and I attended a political meeting in the Opera house in the interest of Mr. Soden, the conservative candidate. Major Sam

Sharpe and J.H. Burnham and Mr. Soden gave addresses.

1915 June 21, Mon.

This morning I hired Alvin Mahaffy to work a month. We were hoeing potatoes this forenoon. This afternoon I went to town to get a horse shod and wagon repaired. I brought home fifty rods of fencing and some lumber.

1915 June 22

Alvin Mahaffy and I were doing statute labour drawing gravel from Arnotts.

1915 June 23

This morning at five o’clock our hired man Alvin Mahaffy got up and came downstairs, stole my watch and was gone when I got up. I got our statute labour finished at four o’clock this afternoon. I was in town this evening. 1915 June 24

I was in town today seeing about my watch.

1915 June 28

Yesterday we stayed at home. Some friends came to spend the day with us. They enjoyed sitting and laying on the lawn under the spreading maple tree.

1917 June 20, Wednesday

This forenoon I was hoeing potatoes. This afternoon I was using our team sowing corn for Hodson. Mr. and Mrs. Wannamaker came here this evening in their car from Madoc Tp.

1917 June 21

This afternoon we all went in Mr. Wannamaker’s car to Rice Lake and back and around the city. We had a long and pleasant drive.

1917 June 22

This forenoon we visited some of the large munition shops in town and also the city waterworks.

1917 June 23

This forenoon we visited the Vermont marble works and the market and later the YMCA building and the armouries and the DeLaval and the fire department. Lovely weather.

1917 June 25

Yesterday Mr. and Mrs. Wannamaker and Lovina and I attended the Sunday school anniversary in the George Street Methodist Church. In the afternoon we went to Little Lake Cemetery, it being decoration day. Today we went to Springville, Chemong and to Philip Tennyson’s for tea.

1917 June 26

Today I was doing statute labor. Mr. and Mrs. Wannamaker went home to Madoc. I was doing my road work. Fine growing weather and plenty of rain.

FAMILY PHOTO Lovina Victoria Tennyson and her husband, John Graham Weir, have been a big part of Pat Marchen’s Keene column for the last few years.

PAT MARCHEN PHOTO John Graham Weir was born in Otonabee in 1844 and kept daily journals until his death in 1925. They were donated to Trent Valley Archives by great-great nephew William Mitchell of Stoney Creek, Ont.