Tourism Thursdays: September is Practically Here

🍂🍁September is Practically Here🍁🍂

           When September is fast approaching that normally means that the Heritage Farm show, Rodney and Wallacetown fairs are almost here.  

  The Annual Heritage Farm Show at The Backus-Page House takes place September 9th&10th. Come and see a variety of heritage skills being demonstrated, explore your rural roots and experience the living history museum first hand. Tractors, displays, poultry and cattle with be there. Its also a great time for the kids, enjoy carnival games and vendors as well this year at the farm show. The Back Pages Band is playing 12 – 4pm on Saturday, September 9. The Pierce Family Band is playing 12 – 4pm on Sunday, September 10

           

           The Rodney Fair! September 15th-17th. The Fair includes tractor pull, parade, sheep show, miniature horse and cattle show, demolition derby and tons of entertainment. Its a great time with great food , filled with amazing family fun!





        Bring the whole family out for great entertainment, agriculture, rides, tractor pull and much more! At the Wallacetown Fair, September 29th - October 1st. This years entertainment include, the tractor pull, fair ambassador competition, Mud Men, demolition derby, midway rides, Marshall Dane, horse racing, agri-magic show, baby show, cooking with John and so much more!




Thanks for reading
Sabrina Merks

Behind The Scenes Sunday

Good afternoon!
I wanted to post a thank you to everyone who has been reading our blog posts this year.  A new media project started in March has so far been very successful.  One aspect of has been an increase in outreach through social media.  Today I checked our total blog views and we have surpassed the 25% increase in viewership!!  Since April we have increased our blog views from 16406 to 20583 as of today. 
I attribute this increase to the almost daily blogs from the staff and volunteers this season such as Media Mondays, Toolbox Tuesdays, Catching Up With Catie, World War Wednesdays, Tourism Thursdays, I Love the 50's, Foodie Fridays, Service Saturdays, Saturday Sitings, and Behind The Scenes Sundays.  We are glad you are enjoying our content.
Since this project goes until the end of March, I have a set new goal to increase views another 25% to 25729.  All you need to do is continue reading our posts, share with your friends via email, Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ and leave us some comments so we can get some discussions going. 

The past two weekends have been spent at local events.  Last weekend was Wallacetown Fair where we contributed a Hunting and Camping themed display, a Canada card table display, and we took our gift shop and fall fundraiser to the commercial exhibit room.  Yesterday I spent the afternoon at a Ladies Afternoon Fundraiser for Breast Cancer Research held at the International Centre between Rodney and West Lorne.  I took some gift shop items and raffle tickets to sell along with our Family Harvest Party flyers.  It was great to meet fans of the Backus-Page House Museum and people new to our area who have yet to visit us. 

There's one week of our season still left to visit us and have a tour.  The 20th Anniversary Exhibit  is over and we've emptied out our collection storage room into the exhibit room and upstairs bedrooms.  Through a grant from Heritage Canada we have painted the storage room, will be protecting the historic flooring and Carr McLean will be installing proper museum storage shelving units to house the collection pieces when they are not on display.  When the room is completed and the upstairs bedrooms straightened up, I will be hosting a reception for society members, museum donors, dignitaries and the media to see the results.  For those in attendance it will be a peak "behind the scenes".

Angela Bobier
Cultural Manager

Upcoming Events - More details at www.backuspagehouse.ca 
Family Harvest Party  October 25  1-8pm
United Empire Loyalists with Arthur Pegg  November 13  7pm
Christmas Feast in the Museum  December 6  5pm  (only 4 tickets available now)
Home for the Holidays tours and crafts  December 8-12  10am-4:30pm

Quilting Bee dates to be announced soon.  E-mail me if you are interested in hand quilting.  info@backuspagehouse.ca