Saturday, 27 June 2009

Friday 26th June 2009 Edmonton Fort - Soap Stone Carving



















Yes another sunny day.

We were off to Edmonton Fort a living museum with relocated buildings from all over Alberta, with working farm, waggon rides, Indian demonstrations.............. Dru had arranged for a guide, Emily and she led the group round filling us all with interesting facts and arranging a tram ride back to the entrance for lunchtime.

Our hosts had arranged a picnic in the woods just outside the fort and this was really lovely on the sunny day we had.

Well the morning was pretty special but in the afternoon we set off to meet Ken Griffiths a Rotarian artist who showed the team how to carve soapstone. Well we had all thought this would be a serious challenge but Ken coaxed everyone into making a stone whale complete with fins and then we were shown how to oil it to bring out the feature in the stone. What a super experience. Rod thanked Ken for a super experience.

An evening with our hosts rounded off another great experience.

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