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Pahiatua Shears celebrates 50th jubilee this month
18 Feb, 2021 07:52 PM
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Bush Telegraph
By: Steve Carle
Pic: BTG080310JackFagan Caption: Jack Fagan, a chip off the old block, at Pahiatua Shears in 2010.
Pic: BTG220221SHEARS3 Caption: Balfour was the venue the Pahiatua Shears for many years, seen in its heydays.
By Steve Carle
Pahiatua Shears will be having its 50th shearing competition on the last Sunday of this month on February 28.
Gordon (Flash) Duxfield is the chairman/convener.
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Founding committee member Philip Morrison has not missed a competition in the last 49 years.
Foundation committee members: Dave Wolland with a Golden Lister shearing hand-piece with a Predator comb he used while shearing in England with Philip Morrison holding a Pahiatua Shears ribbon in Pahiatua.
Self-Guided Tour of Historic Gainsboro for a greater perspective and understanding of Black history in Roanoke and the surrounding region.
We hope this list will introduce you to some of the amazing examples of Black history and culture that are part of our community in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Booker T. Washington
Before he would go on to become one of the most prominent and influential African Americans in the United States, Booker T. Washington was born into slavery on a farm in Franklin County. Today, that farm is the location of the
Booker T. Washington National Monument, which spotlights Washington’s life and legacy, while also offering a glimpse of what it would have been like on a tobacco farm in the mid 1800s.