The Creamery Square Heritage Centre is open for the season with temporary opening hours, using volunteers, until a summer student is acquired to help at the end of June.
Operating hours are Monday to Friday, 2-4 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday noon to 5 p.m.
Pre-opening social events were held at the Creamery for local business personnel and society members, then the doors were opened May 22. People came to see the British Home Children exhibit (still running) and some were thrilled to find photographs of relatives. On seeing the Jack Rudderham photographs taken between 60 and 80 years ago, people felt quite nostalgic.
Organizers of the latest Community Memories project would like some help concerning the River John, Earltown, Tatamagouche and Wallace areas. They would love to see photographs and have information about early (up to 1920) blacksmith shops, carriage shops, tanneries, canneries, carding and fulling mills, different mining activities, the apple industry (any old orchards still around?) and the service industries such as the early hotels, ferries and the stage-coach. The Archives are a great source and there are sure to be tales still to tell of the early years of industry in this area. Contact 657-2255 or 657-3449 with information.
Work is still progressing on the site, and a drainage channel is dug for the outdoor theatre area. Final wall work is in hand in the interior of the shed building, and the wood of the chaloup has been delivered so work will commence on that before long.
Now, the group is in the process of setting up an Acadian display, with material kindly loaned from The Colchester Historical Society Museum; this includes pictures and excerpts from diaries of the time, and from writings of people travelling in the Tatamagouche area – they make exciting reading, although sometimes the spelling is a little odd.

Celebrate heritage
At the end of June, the community will celebrate Mi’kmaq and Acadian Heritage Day.
There will be live Acadian, Celtic and Irish music on the deck behind the Market, so come and tap your feet! There will also be an opportunity to have a ‘hands on’ drum session; experience the ’magic’ of the drum, and how the indigenous peoples felt when using them.
There will also be a barbecue – but that is not all that will be going on.
The Mi’kmaq are coming – to tell stories, demonstrate crafts, make things with children and talk about changes in Mi’kmaq life, using some artifacts from the Glooscap Heritage Centre.
Keep the Creamery Square advertisement elsewhere in this paper, giving details and times of the Heritage Centre program and watch for posters. (Bring a cushion as children might sit on the grass or floor.)