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Be. etween You' and Me B'Ruth Chambeî About Lynde>" HOuse WHIT A large buffet, 1875, factory made with an industiial motive and mnost unusual drawer pulls, isflot as handsomne as the other furniture. AmeiLdeaxnis an interesting piece of furniture in this room. This is a amail reed organ or a kind of accordian, but looks like a piano. A time elock made ii 91 was punched witb an attached armn which recorded on a 'rol of paper.. The paper roll could be moved by a handie and the roll could be remnoved and taken ôut. A hurdy gurdy barreil organ Is another thing of the past andlI think bas been used m i parades in Whitby some finie ago., There are two bedrooms completelyfurnisbed and- there are' clothes too ýof that period., So many things' to see and so mucb to learu about. In time there will be more restoration Including the kitchen. Visitors are always welcome, as tbey'are at, the Whitbý MHstorical Society, meetings held once a montb at Fairviewy Lodge on Dundas. St. These are informative and interesting sessions 0f ten with, excellent speakers and or films. After the meeting tea, coffee and cookies.. Membership dues are $2.00 per aduit and $4.00 per family. Miss Margaret Kennedy wil be glad to answer -any questions for you that you have about the society.' rBY FREE PRESS,.WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2.2,1979, PAGE 15 Whitýy oth Wbns- U.S.music award A, Whitby youth has won first prize in the American Guild 'of Music Annual Festival'lu the solo guitar. Mark Ftillerton, 12 of Harrison Crt. won the prize for solo'guitar, in the senior division for his rendifion of "Malmgena"; a Mexican- Spanish lssical composition.. The festival was held in 'Columbus, Ohioearlier this mônfh. ,Mark has' been -studying the Spanish electrical guitar for the last 46 months at tbe' United Couservafory of Music in Scarborough. Mark also won second place in the age acheivernent division and Was a member of the" first place band li 'bis division, the United Uniques. Wbat does he want to be when he grows up?' 've got two choices; pro- fessional ,guitarist or a doctor," he sgid. If looks as though 'he will, be a professional1 guitarist if be keeps this up. Our museuml, Lynde House 'is well worth a visit for old and young alike.,If is on Dunda s Street West, one of theé first sites to used west of 'ýthe town i n tbe eigbteen, hundredsfor a bouse. Fred Kane, the curator, an« architectural student at Toronto University bas gèiven ,rnany bours to researching the family history of ,tbe Lyndes, of . whom be is a distant relative. The house is furnisbed-with antiques of that time, many period pieces, glass and'china. Many Quakers settled in the Boston area ,And later scattered across -the country wbile sonie came to'Canada. Jabez Lynde from ýNew York state was one of them. He came f0, the Whitby area with his famuly, bis wife, their son and bis wife's father. Later on'the family grew and there were eight children in ail. They lived on, this site in a log cabin of some size. The time was about 1804 or 1805 when they first came to live in the Log Inn and they may have been there until af ter the War of 1812. Mr. Lynde was paid in gold by the government for services rendered during the war and tbereby amnassedquite a fortune for that time. He put froops up in bis inn, cared for governnient stores and ran dispatches, one link in the chain of messages between Kingston and York which is now knowýn a s Toronto. The Quakers neyer have done military duty of any kind but tbey contributed in many otherways. The government was able tokeep tbeir loyalty fbroughout the war years by using' tbem for these duties. 1At this'finie, clearing land'and building homes.-was a beart rendering task. Little material was available and they had few tools, only those tbey were able to make theniselves. Anything indluding food whicb wasn't available.hadfo bebrought*fomi York by foot as a rule. Trhe Distance bas offen been mentioned as eighteen miles, why I don't know as I should think if would be dloser f0 tbirty from Whitby to the centre of York, Probably -.--afý or around Yonge and Front Streets. Inferesting observations made in those early days, one of which was a. remark made by a British fraveller,- John Howison, "Canadians in addition to their indolence, ignorance and wanf of ambition are very bad farmers. "This fbhougb was sbared by many others. Somefbing we hear said to day was said then by W.H. Smifh, "the universal Canadian practise. bas been folIlowed in the clearing of the land, that of sweeping away everytbing capable of bearing a green leaf, althougb if, requires a generafion 'fo repair the devastafion 0f a few hou rs.' The parlor of the bouse is furnished wifh drawing room pieces, six beautiful occasional chairs, two grandfafher chairs and a setfee, all of rosewood from Perry's Castle.. There is also a lovely, ornate piano built by Joseph Rainer, in Whifby, at this fime. In this room there is a small amount of uncovered stencilling on one wall. At a later date the paper will ahl be removed to show this mosf unusual work. This work was done by the, Loyalistsand no doubt some Americans were broughf up from thé states, maybe around 18 25, to do this in the. Lynde bouse. This was a very expensive way f0 decorate and a ra re find in this area. Another siffing'room is furnished wifh good quality walnuf furnifure owned at one time by the Farewell famlly in Oshawa. DIAL- N-INSPIRATION of Automobiles. Dia- 668-1331 and hear a three ""'* ol ical Cohen minÎute inspirôàtionail messa»ge ýy 6380 Pastor Emmo Oltmouns of the' Ernmanuel'chu rchl at ~" 40 1 Rossland RoadW. in Whitby...'~ DENTURE THERAPYGLBL6380 CLINIC% 248 KINGSTON ROADPICKERING ~ ~ .... ..../ý 111 UNfAS SREE WES / ,,~/M, 668-1464'- %. i i i I