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Farmer’s Institute, Museum and Fall Fair

M. Lee, George Laundry and Sue Mouat, 2004

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26.04.2023

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For the club

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will come and have a look at those

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spots that I haven't looked at in 20 years

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at many Institute at least 20 years

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or everything no no

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find the day when he talks and

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probably even many times this weekend

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set up at the whole year

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in minutes dealing with museums or whatever

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and this is one of the letters for the debentures we'd like to

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talk about today and this is the offer to purchase the benches

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for document

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keywords

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that's one of the main things I want to talk about today

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so other

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applications I think I wanted out of getting the

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job John some of my

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books

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we have a complete set of

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things this is

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the first 79 add 1234678

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So we're missing too much I will have to look at University Institute is their mind and

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the ones I gave John were from back in 57 or something

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so we'll see Mike about the first call center and somebody interesting people get the impression about

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the importance of the resurrection of

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32 pages with proverbs leaving

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there are three items that are kind of of interest one is

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resurrection I mean there's a section I'm working on at the moment is the resurrection

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and if we had

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one of the little

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he wants a metal

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printed the word walnuts

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was

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printed

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one of those things you're talking about

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a small molecule

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epic

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like ASCAP, you're gonna need to do

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both then I think we should have a copy of that cover.

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Cover was done by

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Going back to

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the ones we knew when we were growing up didn't

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and how many years that have not been going. So that's what we're trying to find out if I can get those funds back from,

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from John, they have a colorful one is called 76.

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Now there was a time during the war, First World War when they were stopped as well. And Conrad and I traced it down at the archives, there was a five year delay. So there was five years taken out for the war at one point, we don't know if there's more know

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what you see, we are hoping

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to do a project

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to get a grant to

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scan the whole

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town

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on because that's our history

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that's the sort of thing they always

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tell us a bit about getting the land. So my understanding is

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that the farmers have had Gustus for some period of time following the introduction of the

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the fall fair was held at

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school which

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killed elementary school

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when

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the first year and 76.

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Costumes retained out

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after three o'clock on Friday,

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the indoors into different classes

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or whatever. Horticulture within the activity center

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and the

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industrialists class

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with some of them are still in evidence.

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institutes.

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Know Before Laurie I think,

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well, it might be they might have been there.

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And livestock

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fields

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connect a road field

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to a man halls.

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Some reason for that

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craft

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Kendrick has because they only ran Oh.

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No, I don't. Oh, it was it was a classroom.

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No, because that guy touching in.

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But at that point, they have a new activity center. So they didn't need it. I don't know why. But the cattle in that were connected.

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Because that was divine.

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Across the road, we have the lower field by the hydro building that deals with the livestock fields.

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People have noticed that like it's two fields that the

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big one in some of the old elementary school.

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The other one is

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the hydro building. And it's quite a big one.

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And

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after that, the fair on Saturday, we held a dance

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in the activity,

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and then Sunday, we've seen the whole thing back up and put it back to school. On Monday morning.

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After the fair, Mike

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came to Patrick and I said will you organize it next year?

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And we said yes. So we did it at the school under the same circumstances the following year.

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And what I have to do is I have to look up whether it was that year or the following year.

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I decided we should have a museum of archives

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at the fair

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you organize it the second year. Yes. We organized it in 77

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Remember, this is all gonna be scanned down we're gonna have

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like one page

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Okay, so now

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that at that point, you're looking for museums.

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Well, I thought it would be of interest there was so much agricultural history on the island. So in the field by Nan hall

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where those pine trees are right now

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there was a portable classrooms around grade

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portable

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and so we cleaned that out

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had a committee that went and collected items from everybody in Sunday we tagged them all with a number and then even recorded them and we did a heritage museum display in the classroom for the Fall fair

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the second one I'll think of a second.

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The following year we expanded the committee

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been around a while

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and myself

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and we were the fair committee and we

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and we

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again get the fair there but it was it was becoming such a huge hassle because it was

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put up and take down in 48 hours was unbelievable. There was one day

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and

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Patrick said we need property we need an actual fairgrounds and at that point the Rogers property

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777 Stan said he would sell the Old Vic was a fun

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topic and I discussed it and there was no way is it the

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Institute had any money could buy it or anything else I mean they were just a group that met once a month

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then the work is they do

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at that point

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but it's

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almost

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becoming a wallpaper

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was kicked out and there was calm binding and all that sort of stuff where community thrashing

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service all went on down the valley.

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So we agreed that we would buy it

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and hold it for a year

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and give us the opportunity to raise the funds to buy to purchase it

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at that point, when you say the drink water farm

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is saved

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SR was a drink water

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drink water

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and

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drink water one to one counseling

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and I was very focused at that point with my committee on the museum aspect

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of what

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we felt we could do was

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my wife everything

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else became available at

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the service because basically wanted to put in the parking lot

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So I started approaching government agencies for grants for funding.

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I can't remember what department Hugh Curtis was in he was our local

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I can't remember

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a portfolio again, samples

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had a portfolio

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I'm not so sure one of them was Heritage Museum kinds of things. One of them was agriculture and one of them was

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with a

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real connection it was very okay. But I can't remember when he was the original stream but what I did was I met with each of the three and I kept telling them the need for this the interest board and

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I don't know how you graciously do this. But I told Mel that Sam was really behind the project and it was Sam Mel was

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symbol

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w

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he wants to remember what he did. But he's around here now. He's the one that's behind those bills timeshares.

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All this stuff

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is obviously a lot

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so what happened was,

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you see all this the same time unless I get a timeline that I can't put in the right place out I can sort of give you the details.

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They agreed to

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funds for the property purchase on the condition

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that the museum was established as well. It had to have heritage archival

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systems the Rogers land

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does not get approval unless it did. So the Bitton courthouse became an integral part of receiving that grant.

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separately

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we got a grant

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to move from courthouse.

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The committee

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museum committee we also raise money for that

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sitting courthouse by publishing these Cookbook

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Recipes of the Fair

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which is sold incidentally for 350.

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So there's the eight that were on the committee

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the seven on the committee the following and we did two years ago

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now because Doug Henderson and Roy are on this one I had that which is 79 and 80. It makes me think that we move the courthouse at that point because we have some men helping the women actually took down the brick chimneys boarded up all the windows get all the prep work those minutes before Nico brothers came in move that museum

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there's articles in the driftwood

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there is a plaque in the museum where

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the farmers is in order to raise funds to deal with the balance of the purchase of the property.

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Patrick and I had purchased it. I worked night and day to renovate the little cottage the caretakers cottage. It was

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on the condition that we would get the revenue from the rental of that a young family went in

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a single moment to children and rented it over the air barriers. Yes. And

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I think that's one point.

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But that sort of revenue came to us to offset. So we sold it to them at our cost with no profit. And the grant balance that was needed for the purchase of property was done through debentures. And it was offered to the differential Institute members and the community at large.

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And that whole thing came to approximately

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$33,000.

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In

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the price, Patrick's gonna run me off some of those sheets.

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I think he sold it back to the institute

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$60,000

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This lesson not to exceed $55,000, subtracted from cost and about the other $30,000

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sold, the other 33,000 was raised by these debentures

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and we got 20,000 on top of the 30 for the museum.

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And the dimensions were in 100 500 1005.

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And then according to the profitability of the fair each year,

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whatever

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there were

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the means to dine out when when wasn't with us?

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Or very close to

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but there has to be some time.

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And other situations.

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If you had $10,000 You know you weren't going to draw a $5,000 and then

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you get to the end you got $500 Less you draw us out when you do

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beforehand. No movie didn't take what they did was that you had the hundreds of 505,000 and if you had x number of

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if we had $1,000 we pulled the five

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so it was

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working wonderful.

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And it anybody forgiven the Dementors and say we don't want to

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I mean

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not that I'm aware

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that that was paid off and something like I think the picture there is 78

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with

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the last adventure we had a picnic in the in the orchard.

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And my debenture was a 5000 debenture

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that was just adult picnic in New York.

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So your personal one was the last one.

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Perry the President

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would like that picture.

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Remember, all of this is going to be condensed down to one thing

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to study with foreign

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foreign words, took it down to 200 and then the rest.

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Well, if you've got pictures I mean you can do a one liner under 5000 words is essential because that's a key step in the institute. So we can digitize that somehow you wouldn't have

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no idea what's in here.

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I didn't take that picture.

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I don't even

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think Frank can probably do wonders with

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the building itself

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That's another

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Allen gear was the chair when

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are we happy with the information? Can we write a couple 100 words on

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this

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nothing to do with that I was just doing sidebar. Okay No I'm doing all

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right everyone for checking

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out there the debentures

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and

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getting the land those are three distinct issues

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and then the fourth a fourth one will be the building of the building itself so are we happy with that yes the museum is

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all going to be like

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okay are we all happy with that essentially

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so now there's a new bill

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it had to be

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the permits reception had to be born

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fine, we could not

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put

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exhibition building on there but we could construct a barn which is why shape and structure because of the ALR

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you should talk to Alan about

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the guys in the picture

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Alan

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Mobley

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Deion Sanders nine to five

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the first one

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this guy's six months from a gumbo

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Get with the program

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if it's a gumboot land it's 390 550 I didn't know the first number but I never say never say it for seven years because now there's an eight well those are definitely 538 states don't even qualify

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anyhow and the building was built entirely with volunteer labor

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remember

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the word Fridays where every Sunday

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the families brought lunch

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any of the members of the directors current directors involved in it

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they're all much newer

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When did you first become a member

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but it's not this time

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lots of people find our members

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now okay, but I'm saying roughly roughly this period of time

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your dad is

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no mom and dad were both like members because of their involvement in

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growing up to them being members

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pictures of him on the agricultural grounds

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I have no idea when I physically became a member but I was involved with

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my team 1949

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When we move back

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so you wouldn't have joined right away

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I'm interested, you may as I said before, maybe it's one long

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people involved deeply involved in lots of people around the edges

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and we're in last, I've worked

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76 I was active because

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I missed one there, which I believe is

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80

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I think that's the only variable.

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And you say during all this all these times

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I was not a director, I was the museum committee.

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And I was actually

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fired.

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We're gonna talk about that because I want her to hear that so that's one of the highlights of my life

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so the museum committee was working on the victim courthouse at the same time that

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are going on with the barn

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five or something like that. No, no 3079 8081

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building

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open the building and 81 Because there's the cover.

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The building was built with these big doors because you have to have trucks were able to take livestock and it was never used for that but that was the building permit. It's why the concrete goes up around the bottom of the base because it has to be closed out for cattle being

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done whatever.

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So the first property was maybe one.

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Lecture 25th anniversary

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of the 100 and 50th anniversary of the first agricultural

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building

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that's of interest.

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Interesting,

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because we're definitely there. They're talking about things being reading the old equipment display, they follow the past of the horse show. And then this came out in 81. It says the pharmacist has taken on a massive project in trying to have a new building completed on the property in times of despair. Unfortunately, the weather Nanjing is not with us. As the building is to be erected by volunteer labor, we cannot firmly guarantee the project will come to get on time. Should this be the case then you farewell once again being held on school grounds. Final plans will be published in the directorate.

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So it doesn't

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add to the picture in

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those guys on the front. I have a feeling sad to also have the opening

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saying that there's a picture in the pharmacy

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with them either 81 or 82 that it was up there.

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So that's a question. We would put that picture

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but the first

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8182 Because that doesn't concern that it was ready for 81 All those other brands shows.

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You want me to look in the archives

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So I would start checking this September

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September

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September at

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September

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and September

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is our anniversary

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remember when I became a student

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I picked up

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and I always bought my milk

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yields

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go up and get three of those

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I had gone a couple of days before to pick up my milk

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a car came out in front of me at Harbor house corner

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and they went together and it's still a gallon of milk in my car it was last September the cars just I haven't

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and I had to go and pick up

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all the windows open in here the biggest laugh as you're coming to an agricultural function you're really getting into it with his car smelling all

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that he announced the grants from urban to come in at 79

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Of course

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you could check that out 79 30,000 $30,000

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So that would have been

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I can't remember Oh 779 Yeah would have been

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if he announced it and then he came back later to the opening of the building

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well he wouldn't be around all the time

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building but he's a good man

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defenses to Building

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Museum

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quietly closed doors

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when did

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I think I got fired

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thought that I wasn't allowed to

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refresh my memory who wants to

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bomb

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Do you want to warm up

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great.

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These records

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that we need to confirm

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down so fine it will be easy enough to get the

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bearings

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The evolution was

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instigated by Voltaire, representing the full fare Committee to the farmers Institute. And I can't remember who the director,

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although.

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And then when Patrick and I took over, we reported to the farmers Institute

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as the full fare committee.

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The Altair committee expanded with Joe and Dave and myself. I focus on fundraising in the museum. And they focused on the agricultural aspect of it in coordinating that area.

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A report at the pharmacy

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every month about what was happening.

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strong personality, and a lot of the meetings were held at

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their living up in the table, that's where they are health

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care. And over the years, involvement of the museum became, really,

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because our funding was dependent upon it. I was putting this energy

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cookbooks of the fall fair that were like hotcakes. And it was over a four year period that we were raising funds that

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took offense to this.

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The museum committee was overriding the pharmacy Institute

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I disagreed on set Museum is an integral part

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that's going on here if you don't have the heritage included part of the parcel and I said that's what motivated Patrick and I to begin with this my interest in the history and combine that with the agricultural

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property and why you know so all this could come together we could have a ground and a museum combination.

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So

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is an annual general meeting.

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are

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inside is

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a big service they open the doors. Okay, so maybe it was the back that was close up. It was held in United Church anyhow.

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movies made a motion

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of the museum committee, not

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an integral part of the

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focus

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can't remember whether the motion was at the AGM or whether it was a meeting before. Anyhow, I just got really ticked off because I wasn't a director. And therefore I promotion was that I was no longer welcome at the meetings that I couldn't get reports of the meetings.

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And I remember very inspiring was the director, the pharmacist, and he came up to me and he gave me a big hug and

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I can't believe this is happening. I just can't believe this is happening. So I was I was barred from the institute meeting but they voted to support this.

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I was I was out know whether it was actual in the records or not. I don't know.

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It wouldn't have been an AGM there would have been too many people

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would have been

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in my letter of resignation, because at that point, I resigned from the museum and it'll be really interesting to see

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if I can find it

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other directors would allow it to happen.

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That they couldn't see that

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of that component.

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It was after the building

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was

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after

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see, unfortunately I don't it doesn't give the name of the of the chair

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there and

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their committee and your father's Institute executives

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whereas

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8182 It says pharmacist executive

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chairman al Geer directors and Carrie Louise Lazarus, Barry Byron John Stewart while Ray was

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and then it goes on to the pharmacy Institute executive training which is out here for Mackenzie

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Lazarus

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but I can understand why somebody

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would support it

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I can't remember very booth

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I can't remember I have to I had to figure out

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who the executive was, but I know somewhere

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I can pinpoint the year that it was at that point

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I no longer represented the museum and we just we didn't

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we didn't open it for various reasons. And I'm not sure I think Historical Society opened it

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instead of the pharmacists

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got more involved

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Historical Society health fair

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so

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Mary go up and get all the papers

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John

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John's not forthcoming with information and when you give them something you never see it again. It's like a black hole

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so your information on your information

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which helps me this winter

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Do you want any of this and if he does, he does otherwise I will simply

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be great because it is so good

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to places you never know what

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the weather

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so I don't have to go through this and see what might be

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difficult

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the brain

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thank you for coming, but it didn't contain on a transcript to gain full fare. Pleased to receive the grant check.

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that your information is a copy of a letter to the honorable James Hewitt acknowledging the $1,500.

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Regarding our proposal to establish a permanent agricultural fairground, I can advise you as follows. The project is in the early planning stages, with majority of members in favor. We envision a combination agricultural growth with a museum exhibition center concept

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farmers market, sheep garden plot sheepdog, crowd horticulture demonstration course shows training.

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I really did that. The farmers market never ever came about

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Yes sir. So a lot of people are saying I'll never be a true farmers market

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we're in need of 30 to 35

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lack of brevity, simply notice information.

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So that's one of the methods that I wrote. So I'll put all these in in order and what I'll do is I will

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make copies for you, but we don't need those. We've got

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everything that we've talked today will be reduced to Georgia words yeah

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there's some nice little sidebars here. November 1897. The biggest Apple growth on the app this year was probably a glorious Monday.

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Walter Wait 24 hours. Greatest diaster. Five inches. That was

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all I research all those

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in the sidebar, I thought one year about the Gaitan. Gene Douglas talking about solving 53.

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It's all hand printed by my hand.

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One, two,

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and then they were printed at

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the company in Victoria printed,

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printed and collected. And

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Carolyn Hamilton did the sketches.

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Aw.

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Hamilton, that's not religious guys. No.

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I don't know who he definitely is. But that's not sketches that someone else who did right here we're looking at. We're looking at this is this 7980 That's

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the cover? Yeah, that's true. That hurts. Yeah.

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AC?

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Because that's a symbol for some period of time. The cornucopia? Yeah. So that was probably something years symbol of the Faro transforms into a

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which one? Were you looking at this one? Copiah. Fair for? That was 76. And it's still there at 80.

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And 81. It has the building 82 It changes to the crest

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don't

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know. And then in

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84, it went to this kind of a booklet. Interesting the chronicle of changes.

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Knowing Caroline she's got it on our computer.

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Because she does our world about a tea every year. Yeah, but that's long before computers

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would be easy to get that in there.

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This one would be a little more difficult.

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Got better prints

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of the color, they'll have to do well

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you know, you could copy the

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transpose the date that use this as your photograph. Let's try this one. I think Steve can handle

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black and white anyhow, so it's not a real problem

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can't get a hold of that I give it to Steve

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Daris.

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And I've got that down to you

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trying to make

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Mary do this

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I will try and confirm to this correspondence some of these dates.

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And I'll try

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to answer some of those anything you can have more about music.

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I'll go into the museum and talk to John. But I know that there's this plaque in there describing the house before maybe we'll get one of those pictures

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for the Bitton Kretser long history on your own and of course, it was a little rental.

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Actually I had a little boy when I was working there not two years ago, and his father had lifted

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This is where my daddy's bedroom was. And I tried to get John to give this boy a roadmap because I thought it was about six. I just thought it would be a good walk

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to talking about his father having lived there when it was in

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March marches to agenda anyway he I didn't get to find the book and write it down name so it's there in the put don't like working with other people. All the all the cases came from the web trading

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they were doing it

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they used to be in the

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dry goods in the candy shop

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some of them were downstairs on the couch and carry them

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there's so much more stuff out there that could come. And in John's talking about putting instead addition onto the museum. And

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while I was talking to Gore leaking,

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and he had this beautiful

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crystal green gold,

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like a coffee mug, and crystal.

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And Elizabeth had won a gold medals for butter.

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Victoria fair knive put it on my computer. And if we can get in, it might be kind of interesting to show.

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Because we may mention that somewhere in

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particular, that was another cooperative.

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I have medallions of grandpa's that he had before in the show 1918 or something like this.

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For

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doing Red Velvet case,

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big heavy medallions have to

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be on the computer.

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So I have to find all this stuff.

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That's for the for the neck. That's for phase three.

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We got to get to wanting to first.

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So we're they have a Starter Group from the archives ready to work on December the 14th. Get together.

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Talk to Duncan last night.

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And we still have to make a decision a lot to talk about. But we're to have

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I mentioned that our hotspot is

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Central Hall, of course. And they're they've agreed to have an extra

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one that they would not normally have on Wednesday, we'd be the prime presenter. And then Steve will put together probably

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essentially the booklet

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and then have some kind of party now, Duncan is apprehensive about having a central hall. He believes that they could put maybe something like 7080 people in because of the special events. With Tony leaving not too many

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maximum capacity, but we'll find out.

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You could certainly have a pharmacist who for this kind of coalition barriers

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wouldn't be quite incentive.

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Well, if you put it in one link is going to say that it's a used one ring and then you you get some posters up.

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And all that kind of stuff. Anyhow, that's the kind of thing that we're looking at with Chris. Their their impression Junghans impression is that we can certainly get more than 100 people

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with twice they do it afternoon in the evening.

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So many people can't I mean, I've never been able to go to any of those historical things until every tariffs are possible. We originally when we are original idea was to have it in the afternoon one month so that we could have also features the next time habit in the evening. So the local people remember Dick Toynbee was really interested in that time so that local working people could attend that time. Well, it started out in the daytime and then every time it came up for a vote, all the elderly people who

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just voted it down.

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To presentation is good because then it covers the elderly.

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When we raise that issue with the director, why don't we look at our philosophy and we'll be meeting with comment and personality.

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And we'll raise that it shows the ideas.

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You stand up potential for flop of course the second one

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But at the same time, the old timers aren't going to come

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in the evening and the working people aren't going to government.

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Farmers probably most have never gone.

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Oh, we're not going to

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leaving. Thank you. You're a whelming kind of guy. Well, it's better than underwhelming. Yeah, but

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in other words, average

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the average work you're doing.

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Stop eating that white flour.

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Sugar, sugar. White sugar is the only white flour God

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I don't mind eating other forms of sugar but you don't get it in the kinds of things I like to eat. Like cookies and

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sugar in the cookies today. I get

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it by Dave Harris's honey and it has all sorts of special minerals and vitamins and bacterias and things that no one's ever seen before. I can believe that bacteria if you want an exciting afternoon Go and ask him if you can

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I can't think of anything else I know the museum has been held for has been used for wedding pictures.

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I know it's

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the

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old equipment. They bring in and haul out every year and then gradually it was donated to it which was a huge job. Ray Lee and O'Donnell Timo used to do that year in year out

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there's always been an interest in machinery are there right now that's waiting to come in and we're on daily does a lot

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I've heard that the first half a crew went out and got a lot of the old machinery from a park and Greg it up to

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Michael

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Michael

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I can't remember

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so it was very work intensive every time

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think that into

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how much you can get in

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you've got so much it's unbelievable.

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A lot of the environment the opposite was cutting it down to fit. And just literally

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the other thing you can do is make make your report points instead of

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rigid for that add in anchor points on because people will read points

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readily than they will read a paragraph. I wondered if you could do a little boxing not an ad

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talk to Tony Richards or whoever it is about doing some

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point of interest for the Fall coming up how many pounds of butter was sold in 1903 and just a little bit about butter making the next week and beyond that we have the facts that are in every two weeks and now they'll be in every week

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in the dress

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market here

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where are they in the main part and main bodies and as we put

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the text of the page

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and we're laughing

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ever heard of Edward Malla now?

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Yes, I know it's great to be one of the originals.

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No he wasn't well that means that you've ever seen this and it's been running dry. missing the boat

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Absolutely, first settlement, then colony of Vancouver

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and of course Bishop hills in his

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book, his title for the title of the book on his diary is no better land. And that was quantum physics and we got to start working that title. So we're gonna get all of the people thinking about that thing next month.

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If

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you're having a hard time finding I don't think

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I didn't see it

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every other week

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I've got a rough preamble for suggested beginning and I'll get that done up as quick as I can get it to you

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Andrew Parker

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he running a horse

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horse show and they have

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raggedy raggedy ass raggedy

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raggedy as

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interesting though that I didn't see it and you can't find it

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I don't think it's an info off

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it's part of our agreement with

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because they get all the revenue from the

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one article and the most the catalog is out already

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it's already set aside

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now

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this year I thought I would make all my grandchildren for something

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and so far I've only had

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two blaring ear phones to me

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then the people in community

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well

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we look for but I wonder

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is that always in that corner? I don't know. I can't remember.

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I think if

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I recall it being in this position at one point they put it just fit it in wherever they can because of the Comp thing as part of our

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oh

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come on

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very interesting

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back to a

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while we can update that for sure.

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Children's School

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where

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High School

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the old

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school

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please accept my permission of the check in the

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market I'm very sorry about the services enclosed by the check for $20,000 in final payments to the

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museum committed

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that's the level they gave us 100,000 March 24 invest in additional investment heritage

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so you got a 50,000

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mark for Mr. Moy

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this is really a treasure trove John Volker was the next person

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think anybody

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looking after

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a job doesn't seem to have an interest in renewing

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as it was a turn of the century it has always been

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a blast

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marry might well like them next year

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we try not to get stuff

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that was interesting the whole world so thank you very much

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and people acknowledgement

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Yes, interesting things in here

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this is about moving the house

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with Nico Bradley's moving

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Jonathan as well as helping with that yard

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finally had had an architect

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I know certainly parts

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had him do all the way

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larger I recommend the union of upper and lower candidates

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this was the sort of stuff I was getting from the

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Sydney review and I worked on it. I had probably 30 files

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20 of them would have been family names

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is agriculture

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battleship

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settlement

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lessors and downgrades by JP

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putting enough if anybody wants like all most of the families

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on

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the all the obit dates if anybody's ever doing genealogy okay there's a date

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because the only place I've ever seen

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a legislative Library

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Catalog gems completed agricultural grounds

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This is Thomas Hudson

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and then from there it's Thomas

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her family their family and then each of those spin off

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what's happened here

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Mary Patterson and Martha Paulette

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Polly pattern

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and then this offense is Elliott which goes through all Melbourne

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so interesting

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all the family trees

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are thriving

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that was at your 100

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Kena that's an odd name

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where did they come from

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now the Hudson that I know would be

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Hudson Hudson

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I grew up knowing

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justice Hudson

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Edward

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Thomas Hudson

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Hudson was called

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because he was the son

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Tom was the son of

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god

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mom and dad are the most paid

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when they began their life over

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and over through

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down to

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the funny name don't Melbourne

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it's amazing how many of these names are not biblical in a day and age when most names work in Melbourne quite an unusual

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first things ended up on the divorce

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hopefully