A Day in the Life - a look at the Bruce 160th Battalion

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 Nancy White (far left) of the Museum thanks the cast: (L)James Lindsay, Rebecca Brands, Caitlin Bettie, Barry Cumming, Larry Cardiff & Kevin Gruberbauer  

Rebecca Brands and James Lindsay rehearse their lines

Bruce County Museum & Cultural Centre presented its last production in the series "A Day in the Life" on Sunday afternoon, November 8.

The production, scripted around Remembrance Day, featured a day in the life of an officer in the Bruce County 160th Battalion that fought in World War I. It took the audience through a time when young men, mostly from the farms, signed up freely thinking it an adventure that would end in a matter of months.

The play was researched and written by Julie and Larry Cardiff and, with a handful of actors, presented a time-log from the beginning of the war to a poignant look at three men in the trenches reading letters from home.

Co-producer Larry Cardiff reads a poem from a young soldier to his mother

Kevin Gruberbauer(L), James Lindsay and Larry Cardiff play the soldiers in the trenches

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Sunday, November 08, 2009