Daytripping Summer 2023

The
Daytripper
Over 35,000 sq. ft.
Excellent Dealer Benefits ~ Inquiries Welcome
73 Water St., N. Cambridge, ON
519-740-0110 southworksantiques.com
Mon-Wed 10-5, Thurs-Fri 10-8, Sat 9-6, Sun 10-6
If you have to
tell someone
you're
famous,
you're not.
Daytripping to MILLBANK, ST. JACOBS, BADEN & NEW HAMBURG
NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE
MUSEUM
Step back into the lavish
Victorian era...
Open: Wednesday to Sunday
10 am to 3 pm
www.castlekilbride.ca
60 Snyder's Rd, West • Baden
519-634-8444 • 1-800-469-5576
EVENTS
Whisked Up
in Wilmot
on exhibit
it
Tea & Tour
Tickets required
Ghost Walks
Tickets required
SHOP
LOCAL
Castle
Concerts
July & August
Thursdays 7 to 8 pm
Where Is It?
The Hint is:
Well, someone had time
on their hands. Check
out the scale of this
romantic trimming. This
is on a very large north
facing lawn, just south
of a small town known
for its apple festival.
Look for the answer in our Fall 2023 issue!
From our Spring 2023 issue...
The Hint was:
This is an example of a Terracotta
Warrior from the Chinese Qin
Dynasty 221-206 BC (carved from a
tree stump). Perhaps it is standing
guard, gazing out over the great lake,
not at all far from Daytripping’s home.
From
our
last
The Answer is:
This warrior is a fairly new attraction
overlooking Lake Huron in Brights Grove, just
west of Skeeter Barlow’s Pub & Grill.
If you like these, you’ll love www.roadsideattractions.ca
Makers of Fine Quality
Cheese Since 1879
519-662-1212
FACTORY LIMITED
Famous for our great tasng
brick in a variety of flavours,
and tradional Limburger.
29 Bleams Rd East, NEW HAMBURG
(Exit at New Hamburg, Peel St. Take first right on Bleams Rd. E.)
The Times Have Always
Been Changing
By Peter R Smith, Brights Grove
I don’t remember much about my
paternal grandfather, he was the last
of my grandparents to die, but I was
still only 8 years old when he died in
1959. However, last year I was back in
the U.K. visiting family and I had the
opportunity to visit his grave in London
where I grew up. He was brought up a
strict Baptist, he wouldn’t have alcohol
in the house and the only activity
permitted on Sunday was reading the
bible, so I wondered how we would get
along if we met today, with me being a
social drinking sceptic with left leaning
politics.
This got me thinking about how the
world has changed since his death and
what he would make of it all. I imagined
myself trying to explain to him why,
when not at home, people pay more
for a bottle of water to drink than they
do for a similar amount of gasoline, or
how a computer works and why we
need them, or how an MP3 player can
store all that music in a tiny memory
chip. He didn’t own a TV or any form
of record player, but he would
have been familiar with the
wind-up 78 rpm gramophones
of his day. Technology has
come so far since then, would
someone from his era just
be overwhelmed, surely things
changed so much slower in his
time? But as I thought about it
some more, I realised that he
had probably witnessed more
change in his life than I have in mine.
Born in 1874 into Victorian England
at the height of its power, he had been
witness to two world wars that had
upended the social order, squandered
the wealth of Britain and most of Europe
and resulted in the rise of America as
the predominant world power. Not only
that, but science and our understanding
of the cosmos had been revolutionised
by the discovery of relativity and
quantum mechanics. Technology
had developed the phonograph and
gramophone, practical electric lightbulb,
movies, radio, radar, television, powered
aircraft, motor vehicles, transistors,
computers, jet engines, helicopters,
electron microscopes, the laser, space
exploration, organ transplants, DNA,
the atom and hydrogen bombs and
much more. One little family story that
gives an insight to his understanding of
technology involves watching TV at our
house. He didn’t approve of it, but felt
it was acceptable to listen in to the BBC
news presenter provided that no one
else in the room talked. Because it was
rude to interrupt the newsreader when
he was speaking to us.
But it wasn’t just the great discoveries
and technological developments, during
his lifetime, that made a difference in
people’s lives. The discovery of penicillin
and vaccines against the great killers
such as smallpox, whooping cough,
diphtheria, yellow fever, tuberculosis
and polio etc. not only saved lives,
but encouraged smaller families, once
more children were expected to survive
to adulthood. Today it’s hard for us
to understand the difference these
vaccines made in people’s lives,
but I still remember how my
mother worried about the
latest outbreak of Polio and
how she ensured we all got
the vaccination as soon as it
was widely available. Finally,
even mundane things like food
changed over his life time as fresh foods
gave way to processed and frozen foods
that made seasonal foods available
over the rest of the year and things like
breakfast cereals appeared in grocery
stores.
On second thoughts, if he came back
today I think he could deal with most
of the changes since his death, given a
little time to understand them, but he’d
still want to drag me away from my
beer and into church!
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Summer 2023