Sunday, July 28, 2019

Enderby Arts Festival a Guild tradition






The Enderby Arts Festival, which marks its 10th anniversary this weekend,
has grown from a small artisans market to a major community event that
features local performers, family activities and vendors from as far away as
Alberta. The Enderby & District Arts Council created the festival to replace the
defunct Enderby Summer Fun Festival and Tube float and added food trucks,
live music, and then a family fun area to the mix. 
According to Neil Fidler, secretary and board member of the Arts Council, the
popularity of the event is helped by the fact that Enderby is a “nice, small town
that is close to everything.” 
The festival draws on an active, regional arts community and an older
demographic that actively supports local artists, both of which also contribute to
the festival's success.
Retirees, who make up almost a third of Enderby's population of around 3,000,
are historically critical to the viability of the festival.
“Like most small town organizations, we are run by volunteers, Most of our active
volunteers are older. We do get younger people, but they don't stick around
long,” said Fidler.
Festival organizers have found the right mix of entertainment and artisans to
appeal to a range of ages, from children to seniors..The reasonable table fees
appeal to local artisans, who fill around 40 tables each year.
Artisan demonstrations are always a hit with fairgoers, said Fidler.
“We've had the (Shuswap)spinners and weavers come every year since we
started. You always get people who come to watch.” 
Retired teacher Lis Borthwick is one of the guild members who demonstrates
fibre arts every year.
She says she always enjoys connecting with people at the festival, including f
ormer students, who find the spinning and weaving demonstrations fascinating.
“Enderby is lovely place to do it.  I taught in Enderby in for 20 happy years. I
owe that community.”

Written by: Anne Patterson



Saturday, July 27, 2019

The Shuswap Spinners and Weavers
will be there all day Saturday.
Stop by our tent and say hi!


Wednesday, July 24, 2019

We sometimes have Show and Tell at our Tuesday 
evening Spin In at the Okanagan library.  
Lis crochet this lovely "Lost In Time" shawl for her mom.  
Come join us on Tuesdays 6 - 8 p.m.!


Wilma's first skein! 

Saturday, July 20, 2019

Grindrod Days
Bea and Rod spent the day spinning at Grindrod Days.
Come spin your weedend at Grindrod.


Bea spinning and Rod plying.



Linda comes every year with the tractor club. We come out to
spin while she uses her hand crank 1912 Singer.
This front machine is her early 1900 treadle
Reliance sewing machine.

Here Rod is plying his own home grown alpace fibre, "Isabella"

All types of tractors come out each year to Grindrod Days.

Tractors all lined up.


Wednesday, July 17, 2019

What a  view!!
Sherry, Judith, Elvi, Darlene, Carole and Wendy.

On Wednesday, July 17th Anne P. hosted her first Spin In
at her home near Pritchard.  Thank you ladies for coming
out and spinning with Anne.  What a fantastic view
overlooking the Thompson River!


Anne lives up the mountain! Her husband lead the ladies
to their home as it was a long ways up!


Wendy and Anne (our host)

Sara

Louise and Darlene

Lynne


Elvi
Wilma and Marianne



The resident house dog!

Elvi, Lynne, Louise, Darlene, Sara, Wendy

Jacquie, Carole and Judith

Sara, Wendy, Anne, Wilma, Marianne and Jacquie
Thank you Sherry for the pictures!

Sunday, July 14, 2019

R. J. Haney Heritage Village & Museum

Pioneer Days was held on Sunday, July 14th.  
A few of the Spinners and Weavers spent the day 
spinning at Haney House on their veranda.  
Thank you ladies for coming out to Spin!  
It's always nice to talk with friends and see 
old acquaintances pass by during the day.

Lis, Elvi, Ann, Bea and Carole

Thursday, July 11, 2019

Have you heard of "The Little Lake Project?"
This is a free drop-in wet felting work bee held at the 
Salmon Arm Art Gallery. Go to their web site for more details.


Web site is located at the right of your screen.

This is Wilma's first skein, she's hooked!  
Come spin with us on Tuesday evenings at the 
Okanagan Libray in Salmon Arm 6 - 8 p.m.


Saturday, July 6, 2019

R. J. Haney Heritage Village & Museum

On July 14th, R. J. Haney Heritage Village & Museum is celebrating Pioneer Days with a community party!  Take a trip back in time and learn about what life was like in the Shuswap way back in 1907.

Such a great event.  
The Shuswap Spinners and Weavers will be there spinning.
Looking forward to seeing you at Haney Heritage Village! 

Friday, July 5, 2019

Haney House a family legacy
Members of the Shuswap Spinners and Weavers guild
demonstrate their art at Haney house last year.



Maggie Haney, the matriarch of the family that settled in Salmon Arm
around 1903 and built a homestead and house on 80 acres, was
unusually independent and strong-willed for a woman of her time. 
Her marriage to R.J. Haney, a gentleman farmer, railroader, money
lender, and entrepreneur, was also unconventional. As a 30-year old
bride, Maggie was considered old. She and R.J. had two children,
Marjorie and Vern, and raised them in an elegant two-storey
house with leaded glass windows, an English- style bath and toilet
and a formal dining room. According to Salmon Arm Museum Curator
and Archivist Deborah Chapman, Maggie Haney's life as a new
mother was punctuated by long absences by her adventurous
husband. Deborah details the life and times of the Haney family in her
article ‘Daughter’s legacy Established R.J. Haney Heritage Village’
published in Photographic Memory Salmon Arm’s past in essays and
pictures. R.J.’s absences were accompanied by sporadic separations,
during which R.J. hunkered down at other homes he owned on and off
the property. Finally, the coupled turned to a Salmon Arm lawyer to
draw up a separation agreement instead of a divorce. A spirited series
of negotiations between Maggie and R.J. ensued over property
division. The first property survey gave R.J. an extra half-acre.
Maggie objected, and the line was moved again, giving her an extra
half-acre along with a corner of R.J's root cellar and barn. That small
victory for Maggie was offset by the fact that R.J. would not grant her
a registered right-of-way of her 40 and a half acres. After two years of
haggling, Maggie became a woman of property at the age of 56.
She promptly relocated to the coast. The family house, along with 40
acres, was willed to the District of Salmon Arm after the death of
daughter Marjorie in 1984 on the condition that the property was
developed as a park in memory of her father and managed by the
Salmon Arm Museum. The family legacy became R.J. Haney Heritage
Village. The Shuswap Spinners and Weavers guild has been part of the
Heritage Village history for many years, and members are regularly
invited to demonstrate the arts of spinning and weaving on special
occasions, including this Father's Day. 

Source: Photographic Memory Photo:
Courtesy of Shuswap Spinners and Weavers
Written by: Anne Patterson