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2011 Prince Edward County Jazz Festival
Saturday August 20th 2011 at 10:00am
in the Glenwood Chapel with:
Vern Dorge & Dave Barton
Annual Veteran's Day
Saturday September 17th 2011 at 9:15am
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Thank You to all who came out and supported our 2010 Concert of Jazz
in the Glenwood Chapel
with our talented guests
Lorne Lofsky, Guitar
Brian Gielen, Bass
Dave Burton, Guitar
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Historic Walking Tours of Picton
WALKING BACK IN TIME
By Peter Lockyer, History Lives Here Inc.
www.historyliveshere.ca
Every community has its stories to tell – stories of small deeds and great endeavours that shaped their early history.
These old, forgotten stories are often hidden away in archives, cemeteries and museums. But this summer, you can hear some
classic tales of Prince Edward County by taking in weekend walking tours of Picton. The Gallows & Graveyards
historic walking tours are back for another season beginning on the Canada Day weekend.
Friday night tours are devoted to the Gallows tour.
Beginning at 6:30 pm at the parking lot of Macaulay Museum on Church Street in Picton, the tour takes you on a
journey into the past back to the 1820s and ‘30s when Reverend William Macaulay, an Anglican minister, was one of the titans of his time.
Macaulay guided the early settlement that clustered around the harbour area – ship chandlery shops, sail makers, food merchants and even taverns
catering to the bustling port. Macaulay had inherited 500 acres of land from his father and he set out to use his position and assets to influence this early development. His church and
magnificent house still stand, and Macaulay, the man responsible for naming the town Picton after Welsh soldier Sir Thomas Picton (after the
townsfolk had already chosen to call the place Port William) is buried in the fenced, family plot in his churchyard.
Macaulay also donated land to build the stately old courthouse built in the 1830s and it was here that the most
celebrated legal case in County history took place in the spring of 1884. Pressured by the strong emotional currents surging through a
community seeking vengeance for a murder, a local jury sentenced two men to hang for the crime. Hear the story of their trial as you visit the cellblock
where the two men spent their final hours before walking the short distance to the double gallows that still remain in the old goal.
Saturday’s Graveyard tours
Begin at 6:30 pm at the recently restored Chapel at the Glenwood Cemetery on Ferguson
Street in Picton, the final resting place of many early settlers. With its six stained glass windows, the elegant Chapel
is the centerpiece of this 62-acre property just moments from Main Street.
Glenwood is a timepiece – a peaceful, park-like setting of rolling hills, winding roads and mature trees typical of the Victorian age.
Originally a land tract awarded to Loyalist soldier Arra Ferguson, Glenwood has had several lives as a farm, the site of a brewery, and later a leather
tanning factory, and finally as a cemetery opened in 1873. Famous personalities like Letitia Youmans, a teacher who founded the Women’s
Temperance Movement of Canada, and Wellington Boulter, the father of the canning industry in Canada are buried at Glenwood. And the crude
inscription on the humble grave of George Lowder, one of the two men hanged in June 1884, still protests his innocence through eternity.
The Gallows and Graveyards partnership with History Lives Here Inc. a Picton multimedia company specializing in community history projects.
Tours are booked through The Regent Theatre, 224 Main St. in Picton.
Call 613.476.8416 or email:
BoxOffice@TheRegentTheatre.org
for more information.
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Jazz at Glenwood
from previous years
The weather was great, the music was fantastic and we would like to thank everyone who stopped by the Chapel Saturday August 22, 2009
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