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The sowyer's office, one of the first restorations. house behind Cook’s Tavern. The brick baking oven where the fire is built in the oven itself and then removed when the desired tempera- ture is reached (a matter of the baker’s 1n- tuitiont always has a little knot of spectators anxious to find out when the current batch of hread will be ready. For though it is then placed on sale in the Village store, there is only one way to he sure of getting it and that is by following it there! A taste of this good \tnrm brown bread is one more pleasant mem- ory to carry away into the twentieth century again. The Village is rightfully called a living mt}- scum. tor here is no static collection of me- mentos but a working community. To the left on entering one sees the Asseltine woollen mill. Here one can watch the whole process of blanket-making from washing and blowing the newly sheared wool through all stages to com- pletion on ancient but still perfectly working machinery The handsome blankets are for sale to visitors. In the next building, the sawmill, the eter- Hill l1t1_\' in every man makes a lingering visit, tor the great saw. driven by all its furiously Marking wooden parts. is like a mammoth umd-up toy that really works. The mill pond \\i'l|Cl'l powers these two mills is one of the many beauty spots of the community, with ducks and geese sailing contentedly along its surface. In this tranquil setting it is not sur- prising to encounter a flock of sheep ambling along the main street and. most beloved by all \isilttrs. two creamy white oxen with broad gentle laces. Few visitors resist the impulse to pin these great calm creatures. 'lhe Village tour taken this past summer by nearly two hundred and twenty-five thousand persons has been aptly titled “a tour through time." for in wandering in and out of over three dozen buildings, one strolls through a whole era. The 17844865 period depicted is represented by structures that would have been in a typical community of the time. but in order to mirror the whole span of years within the confines of one area, they have been re- 22 stored to different dates. Therefore, n01 d“ the houses, inns and stores would have existed in the state the visitor sees at any one rims For instance, the inhabitants of the Fttnghs Robertson house, originally in Mille l‘lucheand now restored in the Village to the ting m 1320, would not have liVed at the 3am, [We as, say, the doctor’s family whose 185m how was formerly at Aultsville. Within met my; ing everything, from the costumes for W m, habitants to the pictures on the walls :mi me most minute dressing table acceSsorie- 1-: .5 its proper place in time. Thus in th. complex of the Loucks’ family there rm; sented within one acre of land the wh gress of several generations of one fortunes. The visitor sees in one cont Glengarry School of Ralph Connor tam out missing the charm of earlier “selt m it was held prior to Glengarry day». [t]: home of the schoolmaster himself. The doctor‘s house, already mentt ;perhaps the most photographed of all. 10w, brick house of soft red, behind picket fence. Like the other homes it it family, the Keoghs, and though you no: see them you will be aware of them wt stand amid their possessions, authentic t n in the last tiny detail. The doctor’s aCCOUt stand open, his dispensary with instrun‘ .ttt laid out is ready for a patient. whilt ' hall hangs his shawl, flung on man} t venture out in the chill night on a mi» i Hl healing. His wife had a formal par! m Outside the doctor's house, The tiny bedroom provides much more light than appears possibl HOME AND COCHTRY