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Summer of 76

If you wish you could go back to the summer of 76 to relive your youth or experience it for the first time, we have exciting news for you! One of our volunteers, Will Pearson, has created a new exhibit for the Trent Valley Archives titled “A Peterborough Summer: 1976.”

Featuring photographs he scanned from our Peterborough Examiner collection of negatives, the exhibit highlights what summer in Peterborough looked like 50 years ago through its thoughtful curation of snapshots taken by Examiner photographers in 1976.

The exhibit will be coming to Dreams of Beans Café (141 Charlotte Street in Peterborough) in August, and will officially open on Friday, August 7 during the First Friday Art Crawl from 6pm-9pm. After the opening, the exhibit will be available to view anytime the café is open between August 7 and September 2.

Prior to the exhibit opening, it will be popping up at the DBIA “Movies at the Park” event on Tuesday, July 28 at the Quaker Foods City Square on Charlotte Street.

We hope you’ll take the opportunity to be transported back in time this summer!

Have you seen the updated Heritage Gazette?

We are pleased to continue and expand on the pioneering work of archivist Elwood Jones and Steve Gavard as we explore the near and distant past in this full colour publication.
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Trent Valley Archives

2 days ago

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Our Mainstreet Music tour is all about sharing! Since the tour focuses on the venues and musicians that dotted Downtown Peterborough's musical landscape in the latter half of the 20th century (a time period many of us experienced firsthand) we encouraged the live music lovers who attend our first tour on Friday, August 7 to share their own experiences enjoying live music with the group throughout the tour. If you want to take part in the tour and share your experiences, too, we're running it again tomorrow, August 21 at 7pm! On the tour, knowledgeable tour guide Maddie More will take you to some of Downtown Peterborough's most iconic music venues, telling you more about each one and the bands that graced their stages. Whether you're reminded of a band you used to love, or enlightened on a venue you knew nothing about, we encourage you to reminisce with us on this look back at what made (and continues to make) Peterborough's music scene special. Tickets cost $20 each and can be purchased on Eventbrite, here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/mainstreet-music-tickets-1988732692017?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=true ... See MoreSee Less

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3 days ago

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Summer's not over yet, and neither is our "A Peterborough Summer: 1976" photograph exhibit! You can view this thoughtfully curated look back at summer in Peterborough 50 years ago at Dreams of Beans Café (141 Charlotte Street) until September 2. And, every photograph you see in the exhibit is for sale! If a particular snapshot catches your eye, you can bring it home for $65 (if it's a larger photograph) or $40 (if it's a smaller photograph) in its frame. Once you've purchased your photograph, we'll put a sold sign on it until the end of the exhibit, when you can make arrangements to pick it up. These images of the exhibit on the walls of Dreams of Beans were taken at the official opening on Friday, August 7. Unfortunately, there is some glare that makes each photograph hard to see, so you'll have to visit the exhibit in person for the full experience! ... See MoreSee Less

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4 days ago

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The live music lovers who went on our first-ever Mainstreet Music tour on Friday, August 7 thoroughly enjoyed themselves, and if you attend the second tour this Friday, August 21, we hope you will too! Focusing on the downtown core, this tour features both the iconic and lesser-known venues that nurtured Peterborough's live music scene from the 1950s to the 2010s. Discussing the history of the venues themselves and the bands that helped put them on the map, you'll learn more about the local bartender who helped mint a Canadian legend, Peterborough's early punk and metal scene, the venue that is still dearly missed by local musicians to this day, and so much more! The tour begins at 7pm in Quaker Square on Charlotte Street. Tickets cost $20 each and can be purchased on Eventbrite, here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/mainstreet-music-tickets-1988732692017?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=true ... See MoreSee Less

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