A FASCINATING look at life in the olden days will be on display at the Flaxmill Centre in Drumduff on Saturday January 30, at 2pm.
The event 'Wait 'Til Ye See' will have a range of exhibits including farm implements from the past, modes of transport, horse harnesses, old furniture, and a display of jam, bread and butter making.
A number of senior citizens will be on hand to explain how the items on display were used in daily life. They will also demonstrate the almost forgotten art of churning, hay rope making, home baking, and using locally picked berries to make some tasty jam.
There will also be a chance to see some modes of transport favoured in bygone days. The penny farthing, the tandem and the Raleigh bikes will all be on display. Older farmers will also be on hand to introduce young learners to items of horse harness, the hames, the bridle, the winkers, the reins, straddle and belly bands.
Children, parents, and grandparents can share an enjoyable learning experience together in each other's company discussing and appreciating the ever changing pattern of rural life.
The exhibition is part of the intergenerational activity project being undertaken by the Fair Share Committee.
They have already produced a book entitled 'Wait 'Til Ye Hear'. Some copies of the second print are still available. The project has its origins in recognising that because of the widening gap between generations in today's world many of the values of rural life in the past are being lost.
Publication of 'Wait 'Til Ye Hear' gave the older generation an opportunity to record some of their memories in print so that younger people at home and in school could read about 'olden times' and discuss with an older generation what life was like in the past.
As a consequence 2009 saw a number of exchange visits of older people to schools and return visits of school children and teachers to older peoples' venues. The exchanges between the older people and the children and teenagers demonstrated how useful and worthwhile the project was in promoting mutual understanding.
The most recent exhibition 'Wait 'Til Ye See' aims to follow on from the book and bring the olden ways to life.
