Live music returns to Keene United Church
OSM Community Choir will perform old favourites with special guests
A Sentimental Musical Journey is the theme of the next performance in the Keene United Church Concert Series, celebrating the 185th anniversary of the church. Under the direction of Faye McMillan, the OSM Community Choir will sing old favourites like Bye, Bye Blackbird, When You’re Smiling, and of course, Sentimental Journey.
Special guests are piper Brian Gowan, fiddler Michael LeMoire and Indigo Chesser. The event is in celebration of the church’s 185th anniversary. The sponsors are Jack Nelson and author and storyteller Janet Stobie. Proceeds and free will donations will go to Cameron House and KUC. The musical treat is June 16 at 7 p.m.
Reminders
• OSM Food Cupboard, June 14, noon to 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Keene United Church.
• Animation Summer Camp for kids 8 to 12, Keene library, July 2 to 6, $100 per child. Call 705-2956814 or email keene_library@nexicom.net to register by June 22.
• The deadline for Otonabee-South Monaghan grads to apply for the Keene Lions Scholarship Award is July 1. Call 705-295-6692 or ask at the guidance office.
A farmer’s journals
Otonabee farmer John Graham Weir kept daily journals from 1880 until his death in 1925. They were donated to Trent Valley Archives by his great great nephew William Mitchell and his wife Juanita.
1883 June 9, Sat.
I went to town with a load of oats. I had 48 bushels and sold them to William Hopkins for .48 per bushel. Lovina and I went to William Tennyson's in the afternoon. His baby died this morning. 1891 June 8, Mon.
Yesterday forenoon Lovina and I went to church and after dinner we went to Mr. Hunter’s. This morning Lovina and I went to Cavanville to see Mrs. Tinney, who is so very ill with a lung disease that she is not expected to live long.
1891 June 9
John was at Hunter’s logging bee. Peter and I were washing and painting the buggy. In the evening I attended a District Orange meeting at Jubilee Orange Hall in Smith. It was one o’clock in the night when I got home. Dreadful dry weather.
1893 June 5, Mon.
We finished sowing flax on the new land in the swamp and also at this side of the swamp. We sowed five and a half bushels on seven acres.
1896 June 4, Thurs.
We were putting in posts and putting on barbed wire to make a sufficient fence to prevent the calves and cattle from coming out of the swamp and into the grain on the 12th Concession. In the evening we all went to town to hear the Honourable W. Clark Wallace address the electors of West Peterborough.
1896 June 6
Walter and I were resetting Messers. Hatton and Morrows’ hedges. We reset 332 plants in seven hours. In the evening we were making a bridge at the road gate and sowed our corn for feed.