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Enriching King Township through arts and culture for all winter 2015 ArtsSocietyKing.ca Ansnorveldt | Kettleby | King City | Laskay | Lloydtown | Nobleton | Pottageville Schomberg | Snowball | Strange | and surrounding area CONSTRUCTION DESIGN PROJECT MANAGEMENT It’s the most wonderful time of the year Wishing you and yours a very Merry Christmas. THE BIRKSHIRE 416.560.2117 GROUP thebirkshiregroup.com CONSTRUCTION DESIGN PROJECT MANAGEMENT King MOSAIC is produced and edited by Arts Society King 4 Christmas Traditions Merry and Bright Editor SUE IABONI [email protected] Art Director SARAH DIDYCZ For all advertising inquiries please contact 647-459-4136 Published by 8 Eyes and Hands on the Future CONTRIBUTING WRITERS AND ARTISTS Geraldine Alletson Sharon Bentley Richard Billinghurst 5 Biologist at the Table; Hmm... Robert Brown I Taste Bananas Angelo Casbarro Judy Craig 6 What’s Going On at the Don Dalziel Kelley England Heritage and Cultural Centre Kathleen Fry Francis Gaio-Mazzolin 8 Eyes and Hands on the Future Brigitte Granton Donna Greenstein 11 The Nobleton Women’s institute Teri Hastings 11 The Art of Scotch contents Marion Hogg Ileen Kohn 12 Cozy Up by the Fire Bernard Lawrence Lorne Macrae 12 This House Was Made for Christmas Dorita Peer Robin Pereira 17 Arts Society King; What’s Happening. Bill Salter Maggie Toplak 19 Team Plays on the Birdfeeder Daniela Travierso-Galati Cheryl Uhrig 19 Hockey in King Scores Again! Phyllis Vernon 14 -15 Dr. Arthur Weis 21 Thinking About Thinking Alex Young Events In and Around ArtsSocietyKing.ca 23 A Tale of Two Churches King Township…just ASK! It’s the most wonderful time Cover Artist: Brigitte Granton is an Dancing Queen award-winning artist who paints of the year landscapes in oil and acrylic paint. She is drawn to the rolling hills Wishing you and yours of the Oak Ridges Moraine as well as the rugged landscapes of a very Merry Christmas. the Muskoka/Parry Sound area. Her work hangs on banners throughout King and in private collections. She was an ASK artist THE at the Schomberg Street Gallery and the Studio Tour. Contact 416.560.2117 Brigitte at brigittegranton.com BIRKSHIRE Rural Winter GROUP thebirkshiregroup.com MOSAiC winter 2015 3 CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS Merry & by Marion Hogg Charles Dickens wrote in his classic with her father who taught her how to bid Having raised their two children, Ken and sampler, or a miniature stoneware crock, “A Christmas Carol”Bright that a reborn Ebenezer and, to this day, she loves nothing more than Samantha in this home, the Dockrills are “quirky” holds a special place in Nancy’s Scrooge “ knew how to keep Christmas well a good auction and the thrill of the hunt for now delighted to be sharing their Christmas heart. Whimsical feather Christmas trees if any man alive possessed the knowledge.” that one special piece to add to her home. traditions with their grandchildren. adorn almost every room. Vignettes of Nancy and Mike Dockrill most certain- Nancy and Mike’s collections are vast and Seasonal greenery is gathered and memorabilia are arranged and include ly know how to keep Christmas well and varied, both humble and important. Their brought indoors and sprigs of fresh pine touches like vintage Eaton’s gift boxes and have been celebrating family and friendship particular love is for primitive furniture that and spruce are bound to every window German blown-glass ornaments. in their 170-year-old Schomberg farmhouse predates mass production. It is furniture and placed on every tabletop. Nancy’s Nancy absolutely delights in the season for over 30 years. The two are passionate typically made of local wood and often vast collection of Santas is brought out of and spends days and weeks getting every- collectors of Canadian antiques and their found with its original painted finish. But storage. Some are new, some are old, but thing ready for Christmas day. Most import- interests and knowledge have led to one of the couple, for all their knowledge and all are unique and not necessarily per- ant, she and Mike know that it is friendship the foremost collections in the country. expertise, are far from being antique snobs. fect. Whether a tattered Santa, a primitive and family that truly decorate a house and The house itself was a wreck when Nancy If something “speaks” to Nancy, she can rocking horse, a faded and well-loved warm the long Canadian winters. first set eyes on it with her beloved parents, generally find a home for it. Ken and Betty, so many year ago. Nancy de- Everything in the home is carefully scribed that first visit to the 1845 red brick curated and organized so that there is never house as “like walking back through time.” a sense of clutter or of collecting for collect- Undaunted by the house’s lack of plumbing, ing’s sake alone. There is no museum quality heating, insulation, or modern wiring, Nancy to their house, mainly because Nancy has and Mike plunged in, full of the wide-eyed the eye of a decorator and has carefully enthusiasm of the novice, fuelled by their balanced collections with the need to love of history and all things antique. create a livable and comfortable home. It was Nancy’s parents who first taught In the past she has made a career out of her to treasure the past. For many years helping others decorate their own homes. they farmed the property on the west She has also been an antique dealer, an side of Islington Avenue just south of the almost necessary adjunct to anyone with McMichael Art Gallery. Their own property her level of enthusiasm for collecting. on Islington Ave. south of highway 7 had Nancy has some wonderful pieces of been expropriated, first for the railway, furniture and some fascinating collectables, then for hydro, and finally for a highway. but the pieces she values the most are Through all the changes to the rural those with sentimental attachment, a family landscape they loved so well, they held fast connection or some special bit of whimsy to the tradition and idea of “home.” about them. At Christmas the large Victorian As a child, Nancy attended farm auctions home comes alive with family and friends. 4 MOSAiC winter 2015 BIOLOGIST AT THE TABLE The life your food leads before it reaches the plate Art Weis is Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto, and former director of the Koffler Scientific Reserve at Jokers Hill. Hmm...I taste bananas, charcoal, axle grease and grandma’s lavender perfume. Scotch whiskey is an acquired taste. the converted sugar; the longer and warmer I know, because I acquired it. For my father the toast, the sweeter the flavor. and his friends, whiskey meant Canadian Next comes the yeast. Like us, this rye, available at popular prices. Bourbon creature gets its energy by using oxygen was high falutin’ stuff. Scotch was a mystery to digest sugar, producing CO2 as waste. to them and to me too. But upon moving Unlike us, it can also survive without to Ontario, new friends and neighbors oxygen. When it does, the sugar cannot vigorously recruited me into the single break down completely, leaving alcohol as malt fold. Resistance was futile…not that the waste product. Alcohol is toxic, but the I offered any. yeasts used by distillers can survive in wort The interesting thing about scotch is its that is up to 10% alcohol. This makes them variety. Some are smooth and caramelly, five or six times more alcohol tolerant than while others taste of liquid ash. All scotch bakers yeast. As fermentation proceeds whiskeys seem to start the same: combine and alcohol levels rise, even these hearty toasted barley sprouts—malt—with water yeasty creatures reach their limit after about to make a brew called the ‘wort’. Next, 30 hours. Then the real fun begins. add yeast and let it go for a couple of days. Once the yeast slows down, the Lactic Afterwards, distill off the volatile good stuff, Acid Bacteria take over. As these microbes then age in an oak cask for a decade or digest the organics in the wort, they more. Bottle it, pour it, and enjoy. If the produce a cornucopia of chemicals with routine is the same, why do scotch whiskeys technical names like, allyl hexanoate, taste so different from one another? geranyl butyrate, and propyl acetate. These One factor is how the malt gets dried compounds are also found in pineapples, and toasted. The toasting ovens are fueled cherries and pears, respectively, and so at least in part with peat, the dark spongy impart these flavors to the wort. The mater produced when bog plants die and entire list of chemicals made by these decompose. While decomposed moss is bacteria is quite long, inluding flavors Scotch Cocktails the key element in peat, the flavor impart- described as ‘parsnip’, ‘geranium’, and my ed by its smoke depends on how much personal favorite, ‘model airplane glue’. Purists will recoil at the thought of mixing scotch with anything other than a few dead grass and heather is mixed in. Care is The amount of each depends on which drops of water. Indeed, I would be ashamed to dilute the goodness of a fine single taken to toast the malt slowly, over a few genetic bacterial strain is in the wort, and malt. But here are two fun cocktails you can make with one of the blended scotch days. In some places peat is used for only how long they are allowed to do their whiskeys (available at popular prices). the first few hours, switching to other fuels business.

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