A Span, The Length Of Memory 121

Remember when:

You could buy a Christmas present, not exceeding 25¢, to take to the Division, Sons of Temperance Christmas party, as an exchange gift.

Remember when:

Skating parties were held on the swamp (between Wilmot Valley and New Annan) or on Clark’s millpond. Huge bonfires were made using pine

stumps and the gaps in the stump fences were not noticed until the cattle broke out the following summer.

Remember when:

Sunday afternoons were spent watching and counting the cars as they went by and looking up the numbers in the number book to find who the owners were.

Remember when:

The boys from Wilmot Valley School would leave as soon as school was out at noon, then walk or run to Harold Moase’s Store in New Annan,

buy 6 chocolate bars for 25¢, and be back at school before the bell rang at 1 pm.

Some o‘lhie older residenls 0f Wilmot Valley remember stories of oxen being used on lhefarms especially for stumping new land The young man, wilh whip in hand, is raking (hi haw while {he older man is coiling ii.

Coiling was though! 10 be necessan' l0 prevent the hay from healing afler i! was 510 wed in ’he barn. The steel wheeled (lump rake is similar l0 one adverlisea’ by John Dit'kieson'n l 889.