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SUNDAYAUGContest unearths local talesBY GRANT HAMILTONA writing contest that focused on personal views of Brandon history has brought in a wealth of new information to the Daly House Museum.“It tends to be family lore, which tends to disappear unless written down, said Daly House vice-president Murray Graham, who was one of the contest’s judges.Collecting such tales was partly the impetus behind the summer contest.The last time a collection of oral histones was done was for the city’s centennial in 1982, Graham said. And although that collection of stories is still available at the public library, in the generation since, a whole new batch of stories has arisen.“Oral histories tend to give colour to the bald facts,” he said. “You get the flavour of history, which is the anecdotal — although sometimes hard to verify.”Contest winner Gerry Bue-abier collected more than 100 pages of his family’s stories, and said that the problem of verification was ever-present.“Our family consisted of a group of liars,” he said with a laugh. “We had a tendency to embellish everything.”However, by cross-referencing stories from multiple sources, and by cutting out the most wildly outlandish of the tales, he think he’s pretty close to the truth.For the win, Beaubier was awarded a commemorative lamp, featuring scenes from Brandon’s past on the shade.Museum officials said it was “almost one-of-a-kind.” Runner-up Linda Wakefieldtook home a full set of Eco-Odyssey “Voices of Experience” oral history publications for her work, which drew upon her experience as an employee at downtown movie theatres as they closed.“I wrote about theatre endings,” she said. “I worked in the Capitol Theatre when it was on Eighth Street, where the Gallery is now, and I was the last concession attendant — the candy girl it was called then.”After the original Capitol closed in 1963, the teenage Wakefield moved over to the Strand Theatre, but she kept the memories of her first job.» See Collection’ on Page 3Linda Wakefield, second from left, took second place in the Daly House Museum’s historical writing contest this summer, while Gerry Beaubier second from right, took first place. Wakefield was presented with a full set of Eco-Odyssey booklets and Beaubier won a commemorative Brandon lamp, which was presented by Daly House president Donna Henderson, far right, and museum curator Eileen Trott. far left. (Grant Hamilton/Brandon Sun)\bt:sFentlduetob«hekT aw sisti give Mil woi of 1 sho of 1WOIkicalscgraingparCpargropeethetheprethe(MpreLe;tiothe»S
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Brandon Sun
Brandon, Manitoba, CA
Sun, Aug 10, 2008
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