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This soap was handmade by Edward Banting's mother-in-law circa 1940. Donated by Edward to the Museum on the Boyne.Marie Shields and Robert Douglas Banting discuss an "old fashioned threshing" at the Homestead:
Bob: The old fashioned threshing where everybody would come down…
Marie: All the neighbours.
Bob: You'd have to feed everybody.
Marie: And my mother always put on a white linen tablecloth.
Bob: For a whole bunch of farmers, that just got in from the threshing, that were full of dirt…
Don Shields (Marie's husband): Sweat.
B: And everything else. My goodness.
M: Traditionally it was the way farmers' wives did that. They were expected to do that.
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