10/03/12…Buried treasure, oral history and ‘Lions’ at Thame museum
MARCH EVENTS AT THAME MUSEUM – Saturday, March 10, 12 noon to 2pm ? Bring us your buried treasure! Anni Byard, County Finds Liaison Officer, will be at the museum to analyse free of charge your artefacts or archaeological finds. If you have any finds either from your garden or whilst metal detecting that you believe to be pre-18th Century, then bring them along on the day.
Thursday March 15, 7.30pm ? Monthly talk; ?A FARMER?S BOY? ? a talk by Bridget Fraser, Director of the Barn Galleries in Henley. Bridget is also an award-winning writer of short stories, writes poetry and children?s stories. She also performs poetry at the Henley Literary Festival.
?A Farmer?s Boy? is a collection of oral histories from the local farming community which has been made into a film. Bridget will be talking about the making of the film, which she described as a ?steep learning curve?, and the stories of the men who feature in it. A moving testimony to those who helped to shape our farming landscape over the past 75 years. A Farmer?s Boy tells the real-life stories of hard work, struggles, wartime spirit, adventures and achievements experienced by those who worked the land during the last century from the mouths of those who were there. It has been called
?A Poem to the past?
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