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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! Page 44 The sport of basketball was invented by James Naismith from Almonte, Ontario. Summer 2023
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