A N A L L - V O L U N T E E R N O N - P R O F I T M O N T H LY N E W S PA P E R S I N C E 1 9 7 6 VOL XLIII NO 8 AUGUST 2019 FREE TO RESIDENTS GRE G RUT H THE DASHING photographs were all “Elmer’s Store.” gentleman in the photos taken at the Lesure Farm I...
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A N A L L - V O L U N T E E R N O N - P R O F I T M O N T H LY N E W S PA P E R S I N C E 1 9 7 6 VOL XLIII NO 8 AUGUST 2019 FREE TO RESIDENTS GRE G RUT H THE DASHING photographs were all “Elmer’s Store.” gentleman in the photos taken at the Lesure Farm I can’t be absolutely is my grandfather, Harold between 1914 and 1920. certain as to who the A. Lesure. He was born Harold Lesure won his photographer was. It in Ashfield in 1903, and first ribbon at age 14 at could be my great grew up there on a the Three County Fair. It grandfather, George 320-acre family farm. It was presented to him by Lesure, but I always was a diversified farm: the Agricultural Society. heard he was a “no cream was sold from the He continued to enter nonsense” man, and I milking cows to the contests, and win, up don’t know if he ever Ashfield Creamery, oxen until he went off to picked up a camera. and steer sold from the college to study Some photos might have herd, maple syrup in the engineering. come from an iti
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