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Local lamp collection ; Or,,no Weekly limes, Wednesdays August 17, 1983-9 A collection from Orono The Kirby Schoolhouse Museum has a number of new and interesting displays open to the public this month which in the main part refer to collectible items and are from collectors in the Clarke Township area. ' Collection of Tea Towels The above collection of lamps has is from the collection collection of Mr. Robert Lambert of Newcastle. They are in many shapes and do represent a numberof eras in the past history of the country. How many remember these scene. The display is just one of many that now appear at the Kirby schoolhouse Museum and was provided by Eileen Stephens of Orono. The above collection of tea towels represents but a hart of the total collection on exhibit exhibit at the schoolhouse museum. This collection has been provided by Mrs. Jeanette Layng of Clarke Township. Used at Newcastle Dairy - the above exhibit at the Schoolhouse Museum dates back to an' era when a newcastle Village dairy thriv ed in the Village. The collection has been ' provided by Jack Gordon of i Newcastle. Most people have heard of the Dionne Quintuplets. They'll be 60 years old next May 28th. Sorpehow, it doesn't seem all that long ago since this multiple birth startled the world in what became one of the big news stories of the century. V , The story began about 4:Q0 a.m. on that rainy morn- ing^n 1934 when Dr. Alan'Dafoe, a country doctor, drove up to the small Dionne farrrthouse halfway between between Callendar and Corbeil, two villages a few miles from North Bay. As .he hurried into the housë, a midwife told him that two babies "had already arrived. She had placed them in a butcher's .basket, the only thing she could find nearby. Dafoe delivered three more babies, then, turned turned his attention to Elzire Dipnne, the mother. The babies were put beside the first two in the butcher's basket., Their combined weight' was 13 pounds, 5 oz. We saw the basket the other day at the- Quint's Museum on Highway 11 as*you go into North Bay. The museum,consists of the original farmhouse, which was moved to its present location and»artifacts galore. There are five of everything.' On the veranda are five baby carriages. carriages. Inside' are the five original eyedroppers used to feed the babies, five rocking chairs, five sets Sf blocks. The Quint's pathetic, sometimes tragic story as they grew older is récordgd in framed newspaper stories hung on the walls of the museum: How they were 'taken from their farrtily and made wards of the State. How they were exploited, put on display in a glassed ' in nursery, Sorge 5,million people a year came to get a glimpse of them. In a court action, Oliva Dionne, their father, managed managed to get them back to rejoin the family in the Dionne's 18 roorn mansion which he had built. It was surrounded surrounded by barbed wire. . Ron Gasparetto, the museum's curator, drove us over to see the big houçe which is now a nursing home. Mrs. Dionne lives a reclusive life in a nearby bungalow. Oliva died 4 years ago. Two of the Quint's have also died. . The remaining three live close to one anotfjer in a Montreal Montreal suburb. ' •