Almaguin Highlands Digital Collections

2nd Station, Guitar Pickers

Description
Media Type
Image
Item Type
Photographs
Description
The Historical Society is particularly indebted to Waitstill ‘Waity’ Croswell, Joyce Crossman, Jack Crossman, Orma Quinn, Lynn Abbot Lennox, the Wellever family. Richard Moore, Norma Hill-Watt and the late John Macfie for the photos and associated descriptions.
Notes
In 1979, the Crossman’s added a restaurant and in 1992 they added the craft room and patio. The place became known as “Ole Guitar Pickers Corners”.
“Ole Guitar Pickers Corners”
The Meeting Place
There is probably no more important place to the fabric of a town than the place where people go to meet. It is here, over a coffee or gathered around an old wood stove that gossip is exchanged; where the news of the world is analyzed and advice provided for world leaders; where local historians wax eloquent. While Hockey Night in Canada may no longer be the drawing card that brings people together to watch the only television set in town; and while daily business and work schedules preclude the daily gathering around the stove – the ‘meeting place’ remains central to the community. It is where you go to be at home. But, a fact that architects and town planners fail to understand is that the attraction is not the building. It is the people. It is home. For decades “Ole Guitar Pickers Corners’ has been that place. It is Ahmic Harbour.
Place of Publication
Ahmic Harbour, Ontario
Date Of Event
1979
Subject(s)
Local identifier
00009a
Collection
Whitestone Historical Society Archive
Geographic Coverage
  • Ontario, Canada
    Latitude: 45.66681 Longitude: -79.78297
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Copyright Holder
Whitestone Historical Society
Contact
Whitestone Public Library
Email:eva@whitestonepubliclibrary.com
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