Enjoy a hearty breakfast, browse through heritage displays, have your prized antiques appraised and learn about an interesting historical topic. Those are some of the events that await you as the Tantramar Heritage Trust hosts the 14th annual Heritage Day celebrations in Sackville.
The morning session (from 7:30 a.m. - 10:30) at TANTRAMAR REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL (223 Main Street) features a Heritage Day breakfast. Displays (until noon) will also feature exhibits from: Fort Beausejour National Historic Site, Westmorland Historical Society, Cumberland County Museum and Archives, Tantramar Heritage Trust, the New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame (focusing on the Olympics) and others.
Publications will be available from the Tantramar Heritage Trust and rounding out the morning session at TRHS will be the ever popular "Sackville's Own Antiques Road Show" (10AM - noon).
The afternoon session in Owens Art Gallery (61 York Street) begins at 1:30PM, when Margaret Fancy, Librarian Emerita at Mount Allison University, will officially launch her new database, The Chignecto Isthmus: Its History and Culture. Steve Ridlington will follow this presentation with Sackville Sports History: Two Fans and a Top Ten List, compiled by Steve and Wallie Sears. Finally, Kip Jackson will present Three Cheers for Old Mount A: A multimedia presentation.
For further information or tickets (also available at the door) please call the Tantramar Heritage Trust office 536-2541 or drop in to the Boultenhouse Heritage Centre, 29 Queens Road (open Tuesday to Friday), or tantramarheritage@nb.aibn.com or visit the Trust's website http://www.heritage.tantramar.com
All are invited to attend the events!