HomeMy WebLinkAbout30th Annual Huron Pioneer Thresher & Hobby Association 1991 Reunion, 1991-09-04, Page 5THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4,1991. PAGE A-5.
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Plenty to do in uptown Blyth too this weekend
Blyth has been blessed with several
attractions that, like the Huron Pioneer
Thresher Reunion, bring people from
across North American to visit and shop.
Marking the 30th anniversary, this
year, the Thresher Reunion was one of the
first major attractions in Blyth, but others
have been developing.
Having a major impact on the village in
the past 17 summers has been the Blyth
Festival. The Festival started on a shoe
string in 1975 but today has become one
of the major centres for development of
new Canadians plays, drawing people
from all over North America and, this past
summer, even bringing a tour from Japan
to Blyth so the Japanese could see the
theatre that made Anne Chisleu's play The
Tomorrow Box famous. The Tomorrow
Box has been seen by more than 100,000
Japanese during a tour of that country by
Japan's largest touring theatre.
30th anniversary show provides
five days of music and machines
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operating its bean pots with hot baked
beans served up at 12:30.
Saturday night people will be able to
carry the celebrations on until late into the
night with a dance to the Heritage Fiddlers
from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Sunday again begins with the pancake
breakfast at the fire hall. An
interdenominational church service takes
place from 10-1:30 a.m. at the main stage.
From 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. there is local
entertainment at the main stage and
The Tomorrow Box isn't the only play
to start in Blyth and go around the world.
The comedy-thriller I’ll Be Back Before
Midnight by Peter Colley has been
translated into many languages. Anne
Chislett's play about Amish life, Quiet in
the Land was produced in New York and
Kelly Rebar's Bordertown Cafe, as well as
being produced at nearly every theatre in
Canada, has recently been made into a
movie.
This summer, the first under new
Artistic Director Peter Smith has seen five
all new plays produced. Still playing this
weekend are Ted John's comic attack on
Free Trade and the actions of the
Mulroney government, Two Brothers, as
well as Kelly Rebar's newest play about
growing up in a small Albertan town,
Cornflower Blue.
The growth of the Blyth Festival has
changed the face of Blyth's main street
beginning at 2 p.m.the stepdance
competition takes place on the same stage.
Over at the second stage there will be
local entertainment from 2 to 4 p.m. In the
auditorium the puppet and clown show
will take place at 2:30.
Out on the grounds there will be more
log-sawing, belt-setting and bag-tying
contests and the final four classes of the
tractor pull.
The day winds up with the big parade
at 4:30 p.m.
with a large addition to Memorial Hall
being completed just last year. In that
addition is the Bainton Memorial Art
Gallery, the Blyth Festival's art gallery.
Currently in the gallery is a show that will
be of interest to many women (and more
than a few men) Art Deco Quilts by
Ayton-area artist Ellen Adams. Ms Adams
was impressed by the brass doors on many
of the elevators in 1920's and 1930's era
skyscrapers and she began photographing
them. Later, looking at the strong design
elements, she decided they would fit in
well to another of her interests: quilting.
She has turned the designs on the brass
doors into colourful quilts of various sizes
and made from various materials. The
show makes its first stop in a world-wide
tour at Blyth. After leaving Blyth the show
will travel for four years, ending in New
Zealand in 1995.
OLD MILLS
At about the same time as the Thresher
Reunion was drawing its first crowds to
Blyth, the village was gaining fame
through factory outlets for wool and
leather. Today the village has two
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tanneries producing leather and tanning
sheepskins and two factory outlets.
Bainton's Old Mill Ltd. is situated in
the old Bainton tannery building in
downtown Blyth where the wool and
leather industry began in Blyth in 1894.
The Old Mill is located in an
impressive modem building a mile south
of town on the top of the hill. Both offer
wool and leather products, Some produced
from the leather of the two tanneries and
some produced from imported leather.
OTHER SHOPS
All these attractions have helped add
more variety to the main street of the
village as small, interesting shops have
been attracted to serve the thousands of
visitors who come to the village each year.
Today there are shops that sell flowers and
crafts and art and wicker furniture. There
is a potter who can show you how his
work is made. And of course there are
food stores, clothing stores and hardware
stores to give a complete small town
variety. There is even a new bakery in the
village supermarket open for only the last
few months. And of course there are
several restaurants to provide food for
hungry visitors.
Best Wishes Threshers on the
Reunion's 30th Anniversary...
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