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or two in a performance.
Much like Munch and Day
recalled Franken's presence at the
bar, those the collective have
interviewed have pointed to several
other "famous faces" at the bar over
the years.
"I'm starting to enjoy the names
that are coming up. We get to ask,
have you heard anyone mention so-
and-so, and then we get to hear
another story about that person,"
Day said. "The story goes along with
what we've heard, and, if we're
lucky, there's something new there."
Through hearing those stories, and
learning about the "legendary
characters" at The Boot, as Garratt
calls them, the group is getting a
very colourful view of what the bar
has meant over the years.
"The stories are getting deeper and
more rich now that we know the
questions to ask," Roberts said.
Cuthbertson said that became
apparent with one of his favourite
stories about one of the bar's owners
who made it his business to try and
"enrich" the town by telling
customers how they should be
behaving.
"We heard how [a new owner]
bought the bar," Cuthbertson said.
"He got an indication of what some
of the people were like in the
community and he called upon the
village to have people come in and
be interviewed by him so that he
could tell them what behaviour he
expected from them before he would
serve them."
Cuthbertson said he couldn't
believe that people actually did show
up, sat through the meeting and,
when they left, came face-to-face
with other community members
awaiting their turn.
"From what we've heard, that
went about as well as you would
expect," Day said.
Cuthbertson said the story usually
ends with the community members
telling the new owner what they
thought of his ideas, and it wasn't a
positive message.
"He sounds like a real card,"
Cuthbertson said. "It sounded like
the owner's attitude to want to clean
up the bar and the community
caused the patrons to be more wild."
Garratt said people becoming
more rowdy at the bar in the face of
someone telling them what to do fit
another narrative theme the group
was hearing.
"There seems to be an ebb and
flow," he said, saying for every
person who remembers the bar as a
family -friendly place, there was
someone else who remembered
people intentionally "stoking the
wildness" of the bar.
The collective wants to know how
The Boot was laid out in the past.
They welcome anyone to contribute
photos or, if available, amateur
videos of the bar so they can look at
recreating the establishment of
yesterday faithfully.
"People aren't agreeing on where
things were," Roberts said with a
laugh. "One person says, `I
remember this door there,' and the
other says, `I don't remember there
being a door anywhere.' If we could
find photos that would be great."
Garratt said that, through the
interviews and the memories, the
resilience of Blyth and the
surrounding communities has
become apparent.
"One of the things we're learning
about is all the workarounds, back to
when Huron County was a dry
county," Garratt said. "Right
through, there has always been
workarounds"
As far as the collective itself is
concerned, writing the play has been
a bit different than any of the
collaborative writing experiences
they have been part of in the past.
Garratt pointed out everyone has
experience working in a collective,
but each was a unique process.
Roberts, for example, last worked
on The Fighting 61st, a play about
Huron County's 161st Battalion in
World War I.
"Because of the time period it was
set, we had no living people to
actually speak to," he said. "It was a
lot of archive work, a lot of work
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through letters. This is a very
different approach because we were
able to create these characters in our
imagination but now we're actually
able to talk to some of the characters
and get a much more living feel for
things."
He said he found the process more
proactive and stories are being laid
out for them instead of something
they have to construct.
Garratt said many names will
change before the play is finalized,
as they want to protect "the innocent,
and the guilty".
"As we've met people, we've
seen that, whether they are aware of
it or not, The Boot is a huge part of
their lives in a positive way, despite
some controversy," Cuthbertson
said.
A breath of spring
The Brussels Ministerial, which comprises many of the churches in the village, hosted its
Spring Songfest on Sunday night at St. John's Anglican Church. Five church choirs performed
on a night that, perhaps not coincidentally, felt very much like the first day of spring after a
winter that has felt endless. Here, the Brussels United Church Choir performed "God's Many
Blessings" and "My Lighthouse" during their time on the stage. (Shawn Loughlin photo)
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