I aun so 'glad to hear that the Women's Inatltutee of Ontario are going to compile village Matcry books, Events move very fast nowadays, houses are pulled down, new roede‘ are made, and the aspect of the countryside changes complet- sly sometimes in a short time, It is a.most useful and sstistYing task for the Iomen'e Institute members to see that nothing valuable is lost or forgotten, and women should be on the alert alwmys to guard the traditions of their homes, and to see that water colour sketches and prints, poems and prose legends should find ' their way into these books, The oldest people in the village will tell us fascinating stories of what they remember, which the younger members can write down, thus making a bridge bo- tween them and events which happened before they oere born, After all, it is the history of the cmmmnity which in continually interesting to us, and your village histories will be the basis of accurate facts much valued by historians of the future. I am proud to think that you have called than, "The Tmedamuir Village Historian‘, "Fonxwonn' _, "Written by Lam/‘1mm.