RUTHVEN NEWS
Ruthven Park researcher and retired Professor of
Geography at Wilfred Laurier Unviersity, Dr. C. Grant
Head, spoke at the Grand River Watershed Heritage
Day Workshop on Monday, February 16th. The topic
was “Grand Mills: A Cornerstone for Settlement.”
We are pleased to have Janice Reitsma, a local student,
work with Ruthven staff during her co-op placement.
Janice is in her first year in the Recreation Leisure Program
at Mohawk College. She has been assisting with administration
duties, and has been an asset for our many craft
workshops and March Break children’s programmes.
Three generations participate in a recent Rag Rug Workshop. Left to Right, Mary Elizabeth, Mary Anne Rose and Catherine Easto.
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Rag Rug workshops by instructor Helen Sluis continue
to be popular especially after the recent newspaper
coverage. Helen is also facilitating workshops on
Painted Floorcloths.
Doris MacNeil with her daughter and daughter-in-law, Amy and Joanne at the Rag Rug Workshop. |
Imagine travelling through the famous single malt
regions of Scotland ( the Lowlands, Speyside, the
Highlands, the Islands and Islay) in just three hours.
Bill Nesbitt, Curator of Dundurn National Historic
Site in Hamilton, guided the tour by way of a map of
Scotland and five samples of single malts.
Participants learned that whiskey has a distinct bouquet
with seven main scent groups: esters, phenols,
aldehydes, sweet associated, cereals, oils and woods.
Did you know that Scotch simply means that the
whiskey was distilled and matured in Scotland? Get
your passports out and join us on Wednesday,
October 13th when Bill will give a repeat performance
of A Taste of Scotland!
From May 3rd until June 11th an Archaeological Field
School will be held at Ruthven National Historic Site.
The archaeological research, under the direction of
Professor John Triggs, Department of Archaeology
and Classical Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University,
Waterloo, Ontario, will focus on the industrial village
site of Indiana, established in the late 1830s.
