Going to school - 1963

Carol Ann Cole has sent a picture circa 1963.

She's going to get a drive to MRHS from Wilmot in George White's new (first) car. That's a full armload of books, Carol, and we didn't have the backpacks they use today.

Laura Secord Motel

An eBay postcard mentions the Laura Secord Motel in Middleton, circa, the '50s. Did we decide if this was the one across from the hospital ? What name changes has it gone through ? "The Laura Secord was built by doug MacNeil but the other Laura didn't approve of the name. It becane the Driftwood Motel and later the Fundy Spray. A corner store was added and the units are now rented out to students and low rental housing. It is just west of Maple Ford across from the bowling alley." Thanks, Gerald.

Reunion: 10 Years ago ?

Here are some of those, mostly members of the Class of '51 as they looked when they attended the MRHS Reunion ten years ago. A few have passed on since then, and I wonder how many will be in Middleton this July for the 2010 60th MRHS Reunion Celebrations.

Baseball

In lieu of anything more recent, I've retreated to the days of the H&D League and a Chambers' cartoon. Most of us think of chambers as the great editorial cartoonist, the one before today's excellent artist, Bruce MacKinnon. Chambers also did the occasional sports cartton. This one captures Garneau Seaman, one of the brothers from Liverpool who also played one season or more in Middleton.

Olympic torch

The Olympic Torch is carried along Main Street as it passes through Middleton. Is that the Bruce's house in the background ?

Middleton, 1906

I was searching eBay for CF Fisher postcards, but didn't find any. I found this one, however, Commercial Street, Middleton, 1906.

With the MRHS Reunion coming up, I should be concentrating on the last sixty years insteading of finding things in the remote past.

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Last Grade X Class at Macdonald

This picture came in recently from Wilf Morley. Front row: Neil Fisher, Gloria Connell, Rosalind Dorey, Eleanor Wentzell, Phyllis Mosher, Maxine Lightfoot, Anne Cox, Betty Ann Dodge, Kay Cox, Phyllis Palmer, Blanche North, Bob Montgomery; Second Row: Bill Gates, Phyllis Baltzer, Gwen Woodbury, Phyllis Johnson, Janette Mathews, Phyllis Acker, Joan Haley, Vivian Banks, Monica Morse, Francis Mosher, Gladys Reagh, Dennis Johnston; Third Row: Dick Phinney, Benny Parker, Fred Grant, David MacLean, Bev Bruce, Hanson Dowell, Jim MacKenzie, Eric Wright, Wilfred Morley. Absent from this photo: John Appleby and John McClare.