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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Expositor, 2017-04-19, Page 1414 Huron Expositor • Wednesday, April 19, 2017 On loan from a local collector, an artefact of a Phillips & Co English Ginger Beer, from Goderich. A display case of various liquor and beer bottles on loan to the Museum from a local collector. '• • • EMI IIIIM 1 1 1 1 NMI MO IMO • • •� Brodhagen & District Chamber of Commerce COMEtCELEBRAiEiWIiLHtU8i Ccjnada is Brodhagen Community Centre 60th Anniversary Birthday Dianne & the Cavaliers 50 Years of Music Mark Your Calendar April 22, 2017 - Dance with Dianne & the Cavaliers July 8, 2017 - Chicken Barbecue & Official Celebration of the 60th Anniversary with dignitaries August 26, 2017 - Dinner & Dance to Cracker Jack with Dr. Mark Diotallevi October 28, 2017 - Octoberfest Dinner & Dance to Dianne & the Cavaliers Help Celebrate Dianne's 50 rears playing music For Info Contact Debby 519-345-0143 Check out www.hrodhagencommunitycentre.com CLIP a SAVE Artefacts from the Canada Temperance Act. Photos by Kathleen Smith/Goderich Signal Star Huron County Museum Senior Curator Elizabeth French -Gibson prepares the Prohibition Exhibit. Prohibition Exhibit at Huron County Museum Kathleen Smith Postmedia Network The Huron County Museum on North Street in Goderich will be officially opening its doors to a new exhibit on the topic of Pro- hibition in the County. A grand opening date of May 18, which is Interna- tional Museum Day, the exhibit will run until Sep- tember 24, when the space will then be open to local artists for the Huron County Art Show. "We try to keep this space occupied and filled with an exhibit during the busy season, and if you come between May and the end of October, you can buy a joint admission and go see the Goderich Jail as well," said Huron County Museum Senior Curator Elizabeth French -Gipson. The building itself belongs to the community history of Huron County, and the Museum strives to touch on a lot of different stories that affected the whole of Huron County, from fashion exhibits to his- torical content exhibits. "For this exhibit, we wanted to do something that is very Huron County based, and something that hasn't been told too much. Huron County has a wide variety of how they tackled this issue," explained French -Gibson. For those planning on exploring the Museum and the Prohibition Exhibit, vis- itors can expect to see a collection of artefacts of liquor bottles as well as a large case display of arte- facts on loan from a local collector, and pieces from an archaeology dig in Egmondville. "I-luron County has a long history with the topic of prohibition," said French - Gibson. The Huron County voted out at 1959, but the battle of prohibition began in 1884. From research on the County during those years, the local options, the Can- ada Temperance Act, and the Ontario Liquor Act, the Huron County Museum was able to create an informa- tional exhibit. French -Gibson explained the Museum's endeavour to tell stories for people in the County. "We want people from the County to come and learn from the exhibit, but we also want to educate all the tourists who come through as well. A lot of our audience in the bus months are from people who aren't from this community. We are trying to show people what happened throughout the history of prohibition and some of the debate and argument that went along with it," said French -Gibson. There will also be activi- ties that go along with the prohibition exhibit, includ- ing a Temperance themed picnic in July, outside (weather permitting) of the Museum. The exhibits that rotate through Huron County Museum add a new ele- ment to the history of the County and the commu- nity. The exhibits give people another reason to come back to the Museum. Senior Curator Elizabeth French -Gibson is currently working on a three -year -out schedule, and is now plan- ning for 2020. Members of the local community and 1-luron County can look forward to an exhibit on agriculture next year, and an exhibit on the lakeshore of Huron County in 2019. Please visit huroncounty- museum.ca for details on hours and admission.