Nostalgia extravaganza in Stanstead

By Staff Writer
Nostalgia extravaganza in Stanstead

When Mark Middleton decided to When Mark Middleton decided to ‘round up’ some of his old childhood friends to hang out this summer, he imagined a small get-together of 20 or 30 people in his parents’ back yard. Little did he know his ‘small get-together’ would evolve into a huge reunion reconnecting an entire community of Stanstead past. “I grew up in Stanstead in the 60s and 70s,” said Middleton. “I went to Galt for high school and like a lot of others, I guess, I moved away in the early 80s.” “I live on Vancouver Island now, but my parents still live in Stanstead. I went to visit them 5 or 6 years ago with my wife and we went to a museum. There was a guestbook there with a name I recognized. I had gone to high school with him and I realized that almost all of us go back to the community at times during the summer, we just never know who’s there and when. So, this is just a way to get everybody together at the same place at the same time.” See full story in the Tuesday, May 29th edition of The Record.

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