Vol. 17 No. 30 TheCosmos.ca Thursday, August 5, 2021

Welcome home, Olympians • Museum open to history • Feeling too young to feel old

CHANNELLING MAUD - Actress Jennifer Carroll portrays Lucy Maud Montgomery during an outdoor performance last summer of Maud of Leaskdale , a one-woman show created from the author’s own writings. The popular production is slated for three shows later this month. See article on page 6 for details, and for insight into how this unique production came to life. Photo by Melanie Whitfield Town’s most famous author gets her own trail by Lisha Van Nieuwenhove nificance of the various stops while providing write a letter to their “kindred spirit” on cus - directions for the journey. tom Anne stationery, play a game of hopscotch, Uxbridge is known for many things, and top Many of the 15 stops on the tour feature and take a picture in the Anne-themed photo of the list are Anne of Green Gables author Lucy Maud-themed attractions and activities. e booth. Maud Montgomery and being the Trail Capital Leaskdale Manse, where Montgomery lived Concession 6 Studio and Greenmantle Pot - of Canada. It was almost inevitable that the two and wrote from 1911 to 1926, is providing tea tery will be showcasing relevant art and mem - should be combined, and at last, they have. and tour packages, as well as luncheon teas orabilia. And older thirsty travellers can enjoy e newly created Lucy Maud Montgomery which feature special guests, and kids can enjoy a specially crafted raspberry cider along the Trail is a safe, historic, self-guided driving tour traditional homemade ice cream and route at Banjo Cider. through the countryside the Uxbridge area. Cavendish Cat-themed crafts. Children can also entertain themselves with e new “trail” features 15 stops in Uxbridge, At the Uxbridge Historical Centre, visitors Anne of Green Gables Activity Books, which can Leaskdale, and Zephyr that were significant to can see three buildings that were relevant to be picked up at the Uxbridge Library and Wel - Lucy Maud Montgomery’s life while she lived Montgomery and her stories, as well as a Sig - come Centre, or at various stops along the jour - and raised her family during World War I and nature Red Cross Quilt with the author’s mar - ney. the flu pandemic of 1918. ried name sewn in. “We are so excited that we have been able to A unique feature of this particular trail is its Local businesses are also joining in on the fun bring this fun and safe experience to life,” ex - accompanying podcast, which creates an im - and offering special products. e Bridge Social claims Lisa John-Mackenzie, tourism develop - mersive experience by offering excerpts of is offering Anne’s favourite Organic Cold Brew ment coordinator for the Township of Montgomery’s journals, narrated by local actors Raspberry Cordial, as well as a pretty pink nat - Uxbridge. “For Lucy Maud Montgomery en - Conrad Boyce and Jennifer Carroll. In addi - ural Lip & Cheek Rouge in the shade ‘Maud’. thusiasts, history buffs, and fans of Anne of tion, the podcast references the historical sig - At Blue Heron Books, younger visitors can ...continued on page 3

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Township of Uxbridge documents are available in alternate formats upon request. email: [email protected] Please fill out the Request for Alternate Formats Form at uxbridge.ca/accessibility phone: 905-852-9181 ext.209 The Uxbridge Cosmos 3 Thursday, August 5, 2021 Explore a new trail in Society of Ontario operates an in partnership with the Pickering Uxbridge’s Olympic athletes return Uxbridge award-winning authentic historic Museum, which is providing the experience at the Leaskdale Manse, Anne Experience at the Pickering home disappointed but content National Historic Site and this new Museum. e “Anne and Maud Green Gables , the Lucy Maud Lucy Maud Montgomery Trail is a Experience,” along with the Lucy by Justyne Edgell After Rotti sustained a minor Montgomery Trail provides a safe way to get the word out about what Maud Montgomery Trail, provides injury during a gallop, and fun way to get out to explore they offer, as well as guiding visitors a full day of activities in Durham e 2020 Tokyo Olympics Phoenix and her team made our area and hear the incredible to discover more of our sites and Region. businesses when they come to this e family-friendly podcast jour - draw to a close this Sunday, the difficult decision to pull story, through Maud’s voice, of what life was like for the famous area,” says John-Mackenzie. ney is available now at dis - and Uxbridge can feel proud out of the competition. author living here 100 years ago!” Promotion for the new trail labels coveruxbridge.ca/lucy-maud-mont of its representation on the “While I am devastated that e new Lucy Maud Mont - it as part of the “Anne and Maud gomery-trail/ world’s largest athletic stage. Rotti will not get to compete gomery Trail Experience” at AnneandMaud.ca, Two athletes are returning and show his talent on the was produced home with no medals in hand, world stage, I am thankful that by the town - but happy memories in their he will be back to his usual self ship in part - hearts. soon,'' says Phoenix. “I am nership with Central Coun - Uxbridge’s Haley Hunter- blessed that our Canadian rid - ties Tourism, Smith hit the mountain bike ers are a tight group of sup - Durham course early last Tuesday portive teammates who rally Tourism, and morning, her first time com - around each other in our times the L.M. peting at the Olympic Games. of need.” Montgomery She placed 29th on the world Follow Smith and Phoenix Society of On - stage. on Instagram at @haley - tario. “e L.M. “e race itself was not the huntersmith and @official - Montgomery performance I’d hoped for,” teamphoenix says Smith, “but Tokyo 2020 was, in so many ways, about the start line rather than the finish line.” Smith says she arrived at the starting line ready to fight with pride, knowing she had perse - vered through “innumerable obstacles and setbacks.” 905-487-8363 “at week in Japan will re - Toll-free main one of the most special 888-982-8343 weeks in my life - a snapshot budgetblinds.com in time that I will always look back on with powerful emo - tions,” says Smith. Uxbridge’s second athlete, Jessica Phoenix, who was lined up to represent Canada in Equestrian Eventing, along - side her horse Pavarotti (Rotti), encountered an unfor - tunate early end to her Tokyo appearance. MONTHL Y DRA W WINNERS The Rotar y Club of Uxbridge is pleased to announce the winners of the July monthly dra w for the 2021 T rip of the Month Club. The ‘Sultr y Santa Clara’ trip was won by Harr y P orter , ticket #298, sold by Terr y Cha pman. 2nd place, $150 , won by Vince Cicchelli, ticket #201, sold by Greg Eickmeier . 3rd place, $100 , won by Jacob and Steph L yon, ticket #144, sold by Arlene L yon.

Congra tula tions to our July dra w winners, and best of luck to all our ticket holders for the 2021 Trip of the Month Club dra w for August - the ‘Hello/Bonjour’ packa ge inc ludes round trip airfare to Montreal and home from Otta wa, 2 nights’ accommoda tion a t a 5-star do wnto wn Montreal hotel, 2-hour Montreal city bike tour , 2 first c lass sea ts Via Rail from Montreal to Otta wa, 2 nights’ accommoda tion in a 5-star do wnto wn Otta wa hotel, 2- hour tour of the Rideau Canal Locks, 1 day hop/on hop/off bus pass, round trip airport to hotel transfers. As some restrictions are still in place for tra vel, a voucher for $2,500 from Geta way Travel or cash option of $2,250 is a vailable instead of the trip. The Uxbridge Cosmos 4 Thursday, August 5, 2021 Our two cents Enjoy the history of your backyard As COVID-19 restrictions gradually ease, people everywhere are eagerly venturing out again, and what better place to start exploring that your own backyard? The Uxbridge Historical Centre (UHC), unofficially known as the Uxbridge Museum, will reopen this Saturday, and it has lots of interesting exhibits and activities to entice visitors from near and far. Its first exhibi - tion is Quilts on Quaker Hill, and features 24 quilts that have either been made and given to the museum by community members, or are part of the UHC collection. The quilts date from the early 1800s to 2021, and, ac - cording to the museum, “the unique patterns of quilts in this exhibition connects the community with Uxbridge quilters, the role of the quilter in the community, and the enduring relationship in Uxbridge to the craft of quilting.” For youngsters inspired by the quilt collection, the UHC is offering take- home craft kits. Craft options are all heritage inspired and include kid- friendly quilting, bookmark weaving, and more. All supplies and instructions are included in each kit. The kits are available for pick up dur - ing museum operating hours for a suggested donation of $3 per kit, and are appropriate for children aged five and up. The UHC opens up under new leadership, as manager and curator Pat Neal retired from the position at the end of June. Taking on the role of manager and curator is Jessica Lanziner. Helping Lanziner are assistant manager and curator Robyn Pegg, as well as four summer students who, despite being closed to the public, have been working at keeping the cen - Letters to the Editor tre’s social media active, cataloguing artifacts, and developing tours for the Thank you for beauty individuals as sexist or racist, (guy By now, I had hoped more people throngs of visitors the UHC hopes to entertain. objectifying the woman at the bar, would be aware of the fight women For those who aren’t willing to brave a public space just yet, it’s possible to I would just like to say thank you to or guy with the pointed white have taken up in order to attain visit the UHC online. A virtual tour of the 2019 exhibit “Rye, Rebels Rutledge Jewellers for making a cloak), we need to better under - more equal rights, advantages, and & Restraint: Uxbridge During Prohibition” is available at uxbridgehis - piece of Uxbridge look beautiful. stand that we are talking about op - protections. Women’s right to vote toricalcentre.com, as is an informative blog. The gorgeous flowers and carts are a pressive forces acting on a larger was fought for by women, and e Historical Centre says it’s maintaining a strict safety plan for all visi - eye catcher. Thanks again. scale, and permeating all facets of eventually granted by men (who tors, and all appropriate COVID-19 protocols, as set out by regional and D. Ruddy our society, including our collective held the power to do so). Today, if provincial health authorities, will be in place. All visitors will be required to Uxbridge understandings, attitudes, and men as a group chose to deny wear a face mask while on site, including outdoors while on a tour. Tour world views. women their civil rights, they could. groups will be limited to four people, with one staff member, and only one Re: ‘Am I Wrong?’, July 22 edition Bringing it back to Mr. Varley, he Women, as a group, would not be tour group will be allowed inside a building at a time. was able to find examples of sexism able to accomplish the same. So, to Even though we like to travel, there really is no place like home. I felt a mixture of emotions while (the oppressive force that advan - ask that women start demanding reading Roger Varley’s “Am I tages cis-men to the disadvantage of equality from men ignores not only When one of Wrong?” column entitled “Time to cis- and trans-women, and gen - history, but the current lived reality fight back, ladies.” A column in derqueer people overall) in many of women in a society in which men these disappears, which he describes his awareness of different spheres of our society. are the gatekeepers to rights, advan - A LOT disappears. the existence of sexism (yay), but From the discriminatory regulation tages, and protections. then expresses a desire to see (control) of women’s clothing in Feminism is an equality move - women pick up the proverbial sports, to pay inequality, to in - ment. People try to misconstrue it pitchfork and fight back (nay). If I equitable access to jobs, to dispro - as a fight against men, a way to flip Support our local may use another idiom: Mr. Varley, portionate sexual assault cases in the scales and position women you are barking up the wrong tree. workplaces (including the Armed above men, when it is not. This de - businesses so they can As much as the bark is appreciated, Forces), women, as a group, experi - monizing tactic shuts down conver - support The Cosmos. the message is directed at the wrong ence disadvantages on the basis of sations of sexism, playing into a group of people, showing how im - their group membership. deep-seated interest in denying this Because without them, portant it is that people address This does not exempt women form of oppression (similar to ef - we can’t continue to these topics in order to lift the veil from contributing to the perpetua - forts to deny racism with respond - of ignorance and actually effect tion of sexism (re: the female offi - ing with ‘All Lives Matter’ to ‘Black deliver the news you want and need. change. cial that criticized the female Lives Matter’). 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All material herein, including advertising design, is copyrighted, This practice has and continues to process by which we teach people, to examine your group’s history and and may not be reproduced in any form without permission. result in inequitable outcomes, overtly and covertly, the norms of socialization), build meaningful re - where dominant groups experience our culture, including the groups lationships with women, and share privilege and advantage at the ex - they belong to and all the assump - power with them when possible. pense of marginalized groups. tions and values placed upon those Tonia Lyons As much as we like to paint certain groups. Uxbridge The Uxbridge Cosmos 5 Thursday, August 5, 2021 ...I’m just sayin’ The Barris Beat column by Justyne Edgell column by Ted Barris Quarter life crisis - ish Non-essential travel, the real antidote

I’m not sure if it’s a full on quarter life crisis, side hustle or just a hobby. Find something As we all find ourselves craving to talk to my sister wrote on her first travelogue in but it's definitely a little freaky. People are that keeps you involved in learning, growing somebody and do it at close range, I bumped June. “He and his cameraman travelled getting married left right and centre, some are and gaining experience. into a friend outside the grocery store re - around the U.S. in an RV, seeking out inter - starting families and others are moving across Find people who relate to your stage of life. cently. And we got caught up. First things esting people and stories. I always thought the country and even around the world. I’m It’s likely that your friends are feeling very first; we made sure we were both double-vac - that would be the best job. You know what’s about to turn 24, and for some reason I still similarly to you, and chatting over how you’re cinated. Then, we lowered our masks, so that even better? Having your own RV and driving feel like I’m only about 19. I feel like I’m get - feeling can really help! It doesn't need to be a we didn’t sound like we were mumbling, kept wherever you want to go, seeing incredible ting old but at the same time still feel so serious sit down, but just collectively freaking our distance, and began to catch up on each places and meeting interesting people – and young! out over it can feel a lot better than freaking other’s lives. doing it for pleasure, not work. … So that’s I loved my time in high school. I liked hav - out alone. You realize you aren't alone in feel - “Everybody well in the family?” I asked. what we’ve started doing.” ing the path laid out for me, when I knew ing the way you do. In my eversowise 24 “Yup,” she said. “All doubled-vaccinated, in - As a tribute to Kuralt, Jim and Kate have that what I was doing one year would lead to years, I’ve found that, when you open up to cluding away-from-home kids.” named their RV “Charles.” the next step for the following year. And this people about how you’re feeling, they usually “I noticed you sold your house recently. Are I remember the Kuralt features too. In the feels crazy to say, but in high school, four can relate in one way or another. you leaving town?” early 1970s, I thought I’d combine research - years until university felt like a long time. Thirdly, don’t get fixated on what you did in “We’re leaving everything,” she said. “We’re ing my first book – steam navigation on the Then my five university years flew by. I al - school. After my university concentration in going to try the nomadic life.” Canadian prairies – with a van road adven - ways find myself shocked when I realize how television and video, I sometimes feel like I'm It must be partly as a result of the pandemic. ture. I convinced my girlfriend to liquidate long I’ve actually been out of those good ol’ letting my education down by not pursuing a We’ve all found ourselves penned up, staying our car, buy a van, convert it for travel and high school days (six years now!), and how career in that field. But I’m happy doing what at home, following the rules and avoiding hit the road. We got off to a good start. We grown up people my age are now. I’m not say - I’m doing. My business is feeling successful non-essential travel for so long, that with found a used 1967 Dodge Fargo van, had it ing I’m immature; actually, I pride myself on and I feel that I'm growing in what I'm things opening up, as a reflex, a lot of us feel inspected, spent a few thousand dollars con - having great emotional intelligence and I doing. By not defining myself by what I stud - the urge to travel. In the case of my friend – verting the panel section into living space. think that can really only come to those who ied, I’ve been able to branch out and experi - similar to many – they’ve had a house, poured Then, on a short trip into the country, I blew are mature. ence new career opportunities and find new everything into it for decades. They’ve raised the engine. A total loss. Fortunately, friends It seems, however, like every time I open In - hobbies and passions. a family, watched their kids grow, go to uni - loaned us a VW bug, and we downsized our stagram or Facebook, I find out that someone Always remember that what people put on - versity and then vacate home permanently in van road adventure to a bug and tenting ad - else is engaged or pregnant or newlyweds. line isn't always the whole truth of what pursuit of their own career and life paths. venture. Miraculously, Jayne still married me, And these aren’t older cousins or family they're living, so comparing yourself to them Now, with the equity of a house in hand, and the book was published in 1977. friends. These are peers! Classmates, people I is pretty pointless. I find that especially true they’ve decided to liquidate and do something As illustrated by my sister’s example, a lot of grew up with! It's not that I think “it’s crazy” when it comes to someone or something that they’ve always wanted. “No schedule. No us who’ve coped with the pent-up desire to or that they’re “ahead of the game,” it just we consider to be similar enough to ourselves plan. Just hit the road,” she said. escape home after the pandemic have spent seems to startle me every time I see these big that it feels “close to home.” It's quite likely Then, I spotted Richard Crouse’s story in recent days planning trips, counting air miles, life announcements. Some of my shock is that you're only seeing the perfectly staged the weekend papers about so-called “van - and dusting off suitcases, carry-ons and back - probably the “comparing yourself to others” moments of life online. It's good to remind ning.” According to his feature, people have packs in hopes that non-essential travel might side effect of social media. The “quarter life yourself that everyone's life moves at a differ - picked up on Jessica Bruder’s book, Nomad - soon resume. Some have already optimisti - crisis” is a coined term, so it’s likely that this ent pace. land: Surviving America in the Twenty-First cally booked flights to sunbelt locations next sort of thing has happened generations over, Ultimately, if you feel that you’re struggling Century . It’s the book on which the Oscar- winter. Meanwhile, a lot of have but the fact that we have everyone's informa - with getting into your adult life, there is zero winning movie Nomadland is based; the hero - been looking south, wondering when the tion and life updates so easily accessible shame in seeking out professional help to ine becomes unemployed when a factory Americans might open their side of the bor - makes us more aware of the frequency and navigate the life changes. closes, watches her town dying, and according der to fully vaccinated Canadians wanting to volume of grand life changes right as they This is all just the insight I've gained after a to the movie trailer, “embarks on a journey visit family, friends and vacation spots in the happen. year sitting at home, working online, and through the American West, living as a van- Lower 48. So far, the U.S. by land, is a no- So, because I like to think of myself as the working in media fields that are very driven dwelling modern-day nomad.” Or as Crouse van zone. friend who is emotionally intelligent and ma - by social media and digital perception. And writes, she’s “exchanging four walls for four That means for those of us not in the market ture, who gives good advice, I have taken it by my experience seeing a million people get - wheels.” for an RV or assigning our air miles to over - upon myself to generate a few thoughts to ting engaged. By coincidence – or perhaps they were in - seas flights or considering cruises an option help us as we observe these giant life changes I’d say I experience an “oh my god are we re - spired by the movie or the urge to shake off again, non-essential travel remains pretty lo - or enter quarter life crises. These are some - ally that old?” moment almost daily. And I the effects of the pandemic – over the winter, calized. We’ll be restricted to daydreaming what backed by psychology, but mostly actually enjoy seeing how other’s lives are my sister and her husband searched online for over travel sections in the newspaper, camp - backed by just my opinion, so maybe take it turning out. As a photographer, I know those a recreational vehicle. They found one across ing down the road at an Ontario provincial all with a grain of salt! meaningful moments are really special. It’s the country, bought it, packed up some essen - park, or venturing to a bed and breakfast First off, pour yourself into something you easy to get wrapped up in what others are tial living utensils, rendezvoused with their within striking distance of home. Whichever love. As we finish school and get into adult doing; we should all remember to take a chill new RV and are using this summer to explore it is, travel appears to be the universal life, things may seem to get a bit mundane. 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Church, where Montgomery’s hus - and the stage - once more. about the life of the famed author. Church that Lucy Maud Mont - Boyce had seen Uxbridge actress band, Ewan Macdonald, was minis - Maud of Leaskdale , a one-woman The popular play turns 10 this year, gomery’s husband preached at. Jennifer Carroll on the stage in ter from 1910 to 1926. As Carroll show that has been presented every and only three performances will be When he first settled in Uxbridge, Uxbridge and had worked with her spoke her words, it felt as though since it was written (including last open to the public: Aug. 26 at 7 actor and playwright Conrad Boyce in several productions. Even though Maud had been there in that church saw the importance of the Leaskdale she was very young and living in all along, just waiting to be chan - Manse National Historic Site as a Dublin, Ireland, at the time, he nelled back into existence. Her joys tourist attraction. The Lucy Maud knew she could be the perfect choice and her sorrows — coming as a Montgomery Society of Ontario for the part of Maud. As he created bride to the first home she could call (LMMSO), which is based in the script, choosing excerpts from her own; the births of her children; Uxbridge, approached Boyce with Montgomery’s journals and shaping the agony of the World War; the an idea for a play about Mont - the excerpts into a coherent account death of a stillborn child — Lucy gomery and her life in Leaskdale. of her inner and outer life, he con - Maud Montgomery was there, de - The play, they said, had to be ap - tacted Carroll to see if she might be scribing it all. Tears and standing propriate to the Leaskdale surround - interested. She was. ovations occurred after every single ings and educating for visitors. The Carroll received the script while performance. The summer of 2012 LMMSO agreed to back the play still in Ireland and saw the potential was hot one, and Carroll’s costume and act as producers. for an incredible acting opportunity. was made of a light wool, and there Boyce delved into Montgomery’s She set about learning the lines, and was not yet air conditioning in the journals, especially those written be - found that the writing somehow church... tween 1911 and 1926 (the lent itself to being spoken out loud. “It was hot but not unbearable - I Leaskdale years). In those pages, he The words came easily and naturally. always think to myself, ‘if Maud found the author’s own elegantly Carroll’s costume had to be practi - lived (and worked and gardened and written entries, her dry wit, and her cal and suitable to the era. Two kept house) through the heat in an keen observations. The idea came: women familiar to the community outfit like this, then so can I.’” re - theatre scene were called upon to calls Carroll. “When I think back to Sea Buckthorn give Maud her look. Local seam - the first years we did Maud of stress Denise Randall designed and Leaskdale in the church before geot - Har vest & U Pick Loca ted in the hamlet of Leaskdale, we made the blue two-piece suit and hermal air was installed, I walked are fruit, berr y and vegetable gro wers. cotton blouse, and Debbie Begg de - that play through some pretty hot Gro wing organically and chemical free. signed a beautiful flowered hat that days and evenings.” This amazing Super Berr y is one of our Maud herself would likely have ap - During following summers, the main crops We supply berries, juice and young trees. Also a vailable a grea t proved. play continued to be a popular at - selection of garlic inc luding; P orcelain, The debut performance of Maud of traction. In 2016, Carroll per - Rocambole and Purple Stripe. Leaskdale in 2011, was to a limited formed in before an August 11 to September 4 audience: the delegates to the audience of delegates to the biennial Wednedsay 1 - 5 pm LMMSO International Conference L.M. Montgomery Conference at Thurs. & F ri. 10 am - 5 pm in October 2011. The audience was the University of Prince Edward Is - Sa turday until 1 pm captivated. Maud’s own turns of land. The following year, Carroll Montgom er yshir e phrase, her shared confidences, and performed at the Indian River Fes - her acerbic wit were given voice by tival in PEI, in Whitby and in Orch ar d an actor who had the confidence Toronto. 12049 Durham Rd. 1, Leaskdale and skill to make the character come But the most moving performances 416-346-6349 alive. There were many tears and have been in the small, unadorned much laughter throughout the two- country church with the old hour presentation, and when it was wooden pews (and now air condi - over, there was delighted incredulity tioning) that was Maud’s own, and - how brilliant the play, how marvel - where her presence lingers. lous the actor, and how did she ever Jennifer Carroll is now almost the same age as the woman she portrays. She has two children, as had Maud. She has matured and deepened. She speaks the same lines, but with per - haps even more authority. But every single performance is as fresh and Jeff MacLeodJeff MacLeod new as the very first one, and every Financial Advisor Financial Advisor performance draws the same emo - The Co-operatorsThe Co-operators 102-2 Campbell Dr | Uxbridge 102-2 Campbell Dr | Uxbridge tion from its audience. 905-852-1811 The Lucy Maud Montgomery So - cooperators.ca/local/jeffrey-macleod905-852-1811 cooperators.ca/local/jeffrey-macleod ciety of Ontario, proprietors of the Leaskdale National Historic Site, Home Auto Life Investments Group Business Farm Tr avel present the life of Lucy Maud Montgomery in many ways, through tours, demonstrations, talks, and artifacts. But LMMSO president Melanie Whitfield says, “the most profound is Jennifer Car - roll’s presentation of Maud of Leaskdale .” For more details about Maud of Leaskdale and other events at the Leaskdale Manse National Historic Site, visit lucymaudmontgomery.ca The Uxbridge Cosmos 7 Thursday, August 5, 2021 COSMOS BUSINESS BULLETIN BOARD

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