Dominique Guay of Cookshire, Raymond Robert of Compton, and Simon Lussier of Cookshire were making Abenaki ash wood baskets at the Eaton Corner Museum one happy Sunday afternoon in August. It was Old Fashioned Day, the Museum's annual celebration of old time crafts and skills. Many others demonstrated various crafts from yesteryear. New this year were dipped candle making by Chantal Bolduc, and researching geneology at the museum archives. Turnout was better than last year, said the Museum's President Sharon Moore, with 95 adult visitors and a dozen or so children. One of the popular spots was the tearoom, with free scones. In the Foss House were women demonstrating needlework such as chicken-scratch embroidery or quilting. Outdoors were displays of antique tools and machinery, and horse and wagon rides by Rainer Lowry. And in the old Congregational Church, old time music by Jan Graham and Ron Hazeltine.
"A big thank you to everybody," said Moore, "volunteers, crafters and the people who came." And yes, look for Old Fashioned Day again next August!
