Arts et culture
Museum curator prepares for cotton-pickin’ second anniversary gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca Rockland
community’s heritage treasure house will celebrate its second anniversary this spring even as every room in the building is getting close to bursting with exhibit items. Which suits archivist Gilles Chartrand just fine. “I never imagined there would ever be a museum in Rockland,” Chartrand said. “It’s still incroyable.”
Chartrand took a break from his current twin tasks of cataloguing additions to the artifacts collection and starting to work out plans for the second anniversary gathering scheduled for the evening of April 29 at the museum’s Laurier Street location. As the founder, curator, collector, and main promoter and protector of the museum, Chartrand takes pride in acknowledging how much the local heritage preservation project has grown within such a short time. What began as a permanent home for his own personal collection of about 1000 books, photographs, folk art pieces, and other varied historical items from Clarence- Rockland’s past has quadrupled in size thanks to his own continued canvassing for artifacts, donations from several individuals of family estate collections, and the temporary loan for display of other Photo Gregg Chamberlain Pride of place among the latest exhibit items at the Rockland Museum has to go to the new/old harmonium that once was a venerated functional part of the decor at Église Très-Sainte-Trinité.
KIM’S GROOMING Dogs are my passion! The harmonium was relegated to the presbytery storage shed more than six decades ago after a newer organ was brought in to replace it. There it languished until it was sold during a clear-out auction to Nicole and Ronald Rochon. After the museum opened, the couple contacted Chartrand to see if there was interest in having the harmonium on loan for public viewing and appreciation. His reply is obvious. “This was so incredible,” Chartrand said. “It’s such a historic object.” people’s precious heirlooms. “Now there are more than 4000 items, easily,” Chartrand said. Among the latest acquisitions to the museum’s inventory and one of the heritage gems is a vibrant piece of Rockland’s church history. Occupying a place of pride in the museum’s geneology archives room is the original harmonium from l’Église Très-Sainte-Trinité de Rockland. “I never expected to receive this, the harmonium from the first church in Rockland,” Chartrand said. “Over 100 years old. It’s priceless.”
By tradition the second anniversary is known as the Cotton or Straw anniversary. So a “straw poll” of the comments in the guest book at the Rockland Museum would suggest that both residents and tourists are cotton-pickin’ happy that the
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Pierre Tessier, in a news release. “We study the situation daily and do everything we can to correct it as soon as possible.” Tessier noted that public works crews have to wait until the problem roads have dried out a bit before they can use the grader to re-gravel the sections with potholes. Using the grader on roads already sodden from snow melt and the past weekend’s rain just makes the situation worse. “We are aware that the spring thaw causes inconveniences to the public,” stated Tessier, “and thank the citizens for their patience and understanding.” Mail and newspaper deliveries may also be affected in some areas by the situation.
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