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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1976-06-03, Page 5a.. fr LAYER BY LAYER — Ed Reigert of Wilfred Laurier University and student Janice Mulligan, Stratford carefully clear away the top layer of soil, putting any pottery pieces they find into the bucket. A section of the basement hole into what once was the Egmondville pottery in front of them shows different layers of soil and what was found in them. The lower photo shows a bigger part of the basement excavated to • the floor level and twotudents digging in another square. (TOM Photo) aq Why dig in Egmondville ? 8-h.p. 26" Horizontal Worm-Drive Tiller '414. • Briggs & Strandn 3299, ---- Engine • Easy-Spin recoil starter • 2-speediransmission 'forward. neutral, reverse) • No-load tine speed about 90 r p m nig 14" .1.isher-tpe one. are •,..ill..harpening and gmmilreed against hrealogc ii to 8" tilling depth. [Rime. tine shiers Big hm." 541 p hoelroolal-drive model, similar to Wive . 8254 00 •r.l..."-} 0 oo• Sepqtateboor . (Contipued from Page 1). adveriise for a superintendent Of 'special services eight trustees voted in the affirmative - Ronald. Marcy, Joseph Looby, William Kinahan, Donald Crowley, Vincent Young, F. J. Vere , Ted Geoffrey and, Greg Fleming. Opposed were Howard Shant z, -David T eahen, Michael Connolly, John O'Drowsky and Francis HicknelL Next came the recorded vote, again called for by Howard Shantz, on a motion to advertise as soon as possible for a superintendent of litograms to fill • the second vacancy. Those opposed wanted to hire only a supervisory officer and not name the position. The affirmative vote carried nine to four. Opposed to the -superintendent of program were Howard Shantz, David Teahen;` John O'Drowsky and Michael Connolly, with the remaining nine trustees approving. 'A committee was named to interview the applicants - Mr. Marcy, Mr. Geoffrey, John Vintar, director of education. for the board and Rev, Vincent Gleason, Dean of the Huron- Perth Deanery who will be inyited to act on the committee. In other business the hoard appointed Edward Florian as part time custodian of St. JOseph's School, Clinton. The board accepted the following resignations. -- Sister Jean Doyle, who ho. been on a leave of absence for One year while she took a eetirSe on early childhood _education. She will go with the Kent County Separate School Board,' --Thomas Keeler, who has been teaching Grade 6 at 5t. James' School, Seaforth. -;'Victoria Zylult,'-who has been. teaching Grades - 1 - 2 at St. Boniface School, Zurich, . Helen -Partridge, who has been on maternity leave , who will stay at home with family; --Marjorie Glendinning, -Grade 5, Principals Relief of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Dashwood, who has been granted a leave of absence without pay until June 1977. • The board agreed to renew the rental lease of St. Reter,'.$ School in GOderich to the Got:lei:a Day Care Centre for $125 per month, up $25. The meeting was .adjourned and -continued as committee of the whole. Every week more and more people discover what mighty jobs are accomplished by low cost Huron Expositor want Ads, Dial 527-0240. THE.HURON. PQMOR., JUNE 3 UrOnV Step are Miss. Henrietta Stryker assisted al OP. Reform Song Service with vocal solos acrd. prpo404 .hq..pw.n. guitar accoinpanintente Dick goorda leg' the service and Mrs, Elsie Henderson played for the singing .of favourite: Seventy grade eleven and twelve students from the Clinton. High School accompanied by their, teachers, Mrs. Robinson and Mr. Allin visited. fturonview om Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon. The students ar .rived at pile' o'clock and were taken on a one,hour tour of the Home after which they 'spent - awhile visiting with the residents individually, Mr. and Mrs. Victor Stackhouse of Londesboro arranged the prcigrarn for Family Night and Victor was emcee for the evening. ' Fred James, violinst from, G.o7derith," was . accompanied at the -piano by his sister MrS. Marilyn Hoy with seyeral favourite old tyme. tunes. A -dancing .trio, Pat Stackhouse, Anne Marie McQuaid and Ted Elliott danced ' three numbers with duet step dancing by Madona McQuaid ° Margaret Hicknell. Paul and Anne Marie McQuaid played a violin duet accompanied at the piano by Mrs. McQuaid of Seaforth.. Theresa &.Margaret Seaforth, provided the vocal part of the program singing two grotips of songs with Theresa• providing the guitar accompaniment. 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Then the dig, which by the way cost about $10,000 over three summers compared to the $8,000 a week budget that an archeolo- gist might have on a mid-eastern dig) provided detailed informa- tion on what pots the Seaforth area pioneers bought and how they were made. Last summer a group of sprig molds, that had, been used to decorate the pottery was found, along with a collection of nine- teenth cehtury potter's tools that doesn't exist anywhere else in North America except the Smith- sonian Institute in Washington. David Newlands says the signi- ficance of, these two finds, (some of .the molds were signed and dated) can't be overestimated. It's as if a whole chapter of our history had been lost - there is a gap iminformation about potteries from the middle ages until the present day - and one day it was "fouttd, in Egmondville. But the tools and molds were an unexpected bonus. The 'plan had been to excavate at. Egmond- ville because the site was acces- sible, not covered by a building or parking lot. "We had. Samples from an early English pottery (David Burns' near Holmesville) and this was a German pottery. We knew some of its typital products; it had a long history," Mr. Newlands explains. He's, working on a book on the early potteries of Ontario-and was interested too in the techniques Used at the Oottery. He says information from the dig will be helpfu to the revival of pioneer crafts ha is now going on in Ontario. People are learning spinning, weaving and quilting; now they will have authentic information on pioneer potteries. A pioneer art and craft centre is planned at the Van Egmond house and Mr. Newlands says he hopes people will get more interested in the pottery once progranis • at the house are underway. The ROM has offered to make a display of some of the items found at the dig and donate it to the Van Egmond Foundation for showing at the house. This summer, while finds weren't so spectacular. a four gallon cream pot was found intact,quite unusual at a dig, and a water cooler base, signed "Rbehler and Weber Makers, Egmondville, November the 29, 1874". Mr. Hart's research shows that the first potter and his son-in-law Jacob Weber, went into partnership in 1873. Last year a nearly complete jelly mold, .unlike anything dug up anywhere that David Newlands knows about, surfaced under layers of carefully sifted debris in the old pottery base- ment. The archeologist told about 20people at an open house recently in the temporary lab 'set up at thlt Van Egmond house, that restoration specialists at the ROM Werted fer"a -week. adding -the missing part. "What Pin almost, afraid to tell the restoration people is that this week we found that jelly mold piece," David, said. • Gordon Thompson, 'a volunteer who has spent his holidays from his job as an electrical draftsman in Toronto at the site for the last three years says the pottery dig is important because "the entire way of life associated with the' pots and this period is gone." Digs like the Egmondville one help "flesh out the details of the way of life in early Canada," Gordon says. The ancestors of local people had direct involvement with the building 'and the potters who worked there, he says, and that should be of interest. "We assume that Canadian history is already well recorded or is of no consequence - that isn't true," Gordon says. "There's _ something nice about being able to say conchisviely 'this is cana- dian' ", now that-The dig has turned up the evidence, he says. What makes people ,who give up their vacation time to take part in an archeological dig tick? Gordon says it's ,a change for him, a slowing down in pace from his downtown Toronto job and commuting. This summer, most of • the diggers were Wilfred Laurier University students, involved as part of their course work. "You can't just be out for a good time" said one of the students, who was assistant photographer, said. One of their final days at the dig, the group was buzzing about the fact that the largest crock they had found Wasn't dug up at the site but was spotted put out by the curb with a Seaforth woman's garbage. Lila Jackson of Victoria St, said the six gallong crock, Which had a large gack in it, had sat in a corner ocher garage for years. Mrs. Jackson gave it to the dig staff, rather than sending it to the dump. Her late hitband Harold, well know auctioneer, had used it to pin salt in for his cattle. 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