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The first ever Pioneer Craft Day last year was so successful, we're doing it again. The family activity day is a cooperative project of the Central Manitoulin Historical Society and Jack's Agricultural Museum in Mindemoya. It gives kids and adults the opportunity to try out new crafts, with music, stories, a crossword scavenger hunt and more. This year's feature is the Northern Maple Cow, a life-size cow, to learn how milking was done in the old days. You can learn how do milk a cow without getting kicked! Butter-making will also be featured. The idea is to provide an enjoyable day based on crafts and activities popular in the past.
    Local people will hold workshops on making bookmarks with pressed flowers, knitting a square, making a dreamcatcher, doing pottery on a wheel, looking up your family tree and more. Local spinners, weavers, a lacemaker, and rug makers will all be on hand, demonstrating their skills and explaining aspects of their crafts, and people can participate in an old-fashioned quilting bee.
    The day will have aspects of a fair, with music provided by local musicians. The Manitoulin Writers' Circle is having a short story contest, and the 6 winning stories will be read aloud as part of the entertainment. People interested in genealogy will also have an opportunity to get pointers on searching their family tree. For the crossword scavenger hunt, people are given a crossword form, and they find the clues for each word on posters at various locations as they walk along the streets from one museum to the other. The clues are drawn from our history, and they are educational but fun too!
    This is designed primarily as an activity fun day, rather than a fund-raising event, but we need it to pay for itself and perhaps provide some income for the Museums.
    The plan is that one entrance fee will allow entry to both Museums, where people can watch the demonstrations and view the artefacts, listen to the music, pick up the crossword for the village scavenger hunt and some other activities. The entrance fee is just $5 for adults, $3 for seniors and children under 12 are free. There will be another fee for some of the workshop activities such as pottery making and making a dreamcatcher.
    If you would like more information, please contact Jan McQuay 377-4045 or by email mcquay@amtelecom.net , or Marion Seabrook at 377-4754 or sewwhat@amtelecom.net

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