Sunday School is a thing of the past in most churches
My mother, who was born in 1905, was christened in the now deconsecrated United Church at Lake-On-The Mountain.
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My mother, who was born in 1905, was christened in the now deconsecrated United Church at Lake-On-The Mountain.
Article content Watch words of the 1950’s, ‘Never on Sunday’, hold no meaning today. In my childhood years, the workaday world ground to a halt on the seventh day of the week and we enjoyed family time. All of the stores on Picton’s Main Street closed their doors, with the exception of just one drug store and the Bowl-O-Drome. Each pharmacy took its turn at keeping Sunday hours, enabling local residents to fill prescriptions in the event of an emergency. Local physicians also took their turns at being on-call. There was no ER at the old Picton hospital in those days. If someone needed...