Description Roland Sherwood's Pictou Parade

Roland Sherwood’s

Pictou Parade

Picotu Advocate. Wed. , July 12, 1978- (Sec.B) Five

CO-OPERATION

A neat of co-operation has been going on quietly in town.  The members of the Pictou Horticultural Society have purchased, arranged and planted in tubs, a profusion of flowers.  These have been placed on the brackets on the poles, two pots of flowers to a pole, by the town workmen, and these pots of flowers are watered by the town workmen.  Net job all around, the flowers are adding much to the local scene. 

Works Department

I dropped in to the Towns Works Department on the Halliburton Road, actually just off that highway, and was surprised at the orderly array of tools and machines.  Everything was spick and span.  Everything was in its place, and every tool was catalogued.

                The man behind the orderly look of theta department in the new building was long time Pictou Hockey player Mark Babineau.  He showed me around the place and I was greatly impressed.  Marl takes an unusual pride in making and keeping the large building a clean and orderly place of the men who work there, or work out of.

                Of course, everything within the town pertaining to keeping everything in good working order come sunder the direction of the Town Superintendent Harry Hopkins, with the different council committeemen working with him to ease the load.  If interested, take a look at the Town Works Department.  You’ll be pleasantly surprised. 

Fertilizer

A late season snow storm, according to an old belief, was known as “The Poor Man’s Fertilizer.” It was claimed that if peas and potatoes had been planted they grew better and faster after a late snow storm.

Buggy Whips

In the old buggy driving days, and even today when teams are shown at the exhibitions, the driver sits on the right hand side, and the whip socket is also on the right hand side.

Courting

In the early days, which is about 1797, a young man from a distant farm who came to call on a young lady, and found that night had overtaken him, could be invited to stay the night.

It was recorded in local history “that there is an allowance here, as in Virginia, for the young men and women with respect to sweet hearting, or sparking, as they call it, which was also known as bundling.

Bundling was, when a young man and a young woman climbed into bed with all their clothes on, with a partition of board down the center of the bed.  This method was used to save heat, as fires and light were put out at an early hour.  Usually, mother and dad slept in the same room, but in a different bed.

SCOTSBURN

The railway station at Scotsburn was built of brick, wood and stone in 1888-89.  While it is still standing, it is no longer used as a station stop for trains, as no passenger trains run on the Short Line, except, at times, long passenger trains have had to be diverted to this line because of a wreck on the main line.  The station is now used as an antique. 

 

Parting Thought

Today’s junk is tomorrow’s antiques.

By Roland H. Sherwood (D.LITT.)

Historical Writer