Today is #InternationalAskAQuestionDay so this is your opportunity to ask us some questions about the #museum, #localhistory or some other topic. But please, no math questions about Pi, even though it's also #NationalPiDay

We were pleased to have been the guest speaker at the meeting of the South Dumfries Historical Society this past weekend in St. George Ontario. Nice to be the one to relaunch their speaker series. The topic was of course, "Cutting the Cheese: a history of Ontario cheesemaking, one slice at a time". Great fun to meet the daughter of the late Harold Fraser of Uniondale - the first cheese maker to manufacture mozzarella in Ontario!

Will you be out and about with your Double Double from Tim Horton's during this March Break? Drop by the Ingersoll Museum and examine the banner sent to our Canadian troops in 2006 along with more than $700 in Tim's gift certificates. Did you sign the banner? Come check it out and see who you recognize. The banner will be on display this week only, March 11 to 16.

Open wide! Today is #FalseTeethDay so its natural that we look at some of the artifacts in the collection from the late Dr. Charles Kennedy. Here is an anatomical model of upper and lower jaws with and without teeth. Remember to brush and floss

Cheese! Do we have your attention yet? The museum will be one of the exhibitors at this year's Dairy Capital Cheese Festival taking place in Woodstock on April 28th in the Oxford Auditorium. The museum curator will also be speaking about the binding capacity of cheese -- from a genealogical point of view and the intermarriages of many different cheese making families.

On behalf of the museum we wish to acknowledge and help to commemorate #InternationalWomensDay by sharing these photos from our collection.

We're back on line! After a few days of telephone and computer issues, the museum seems to be back in order, from a telecommunications point of view at least!

#DYK that Ingersoll had one of the earliest telephone exchanges in Ontario? Unfortunately during some recent repairs to the museum's telephone line, our wires have been crossed with someone on Tunis Street. We apologize for the inconvenience this has caused to all parties concerned. With any luck the mistake will be corrected in short order. Can you hear me now?

This week's #FlashbackFriday also happens to be #OldStuffDay, so here are a random selection of photos of old stuff in the #museum collection!

We celebrate #NationalPigDay by sharing this postcard from the opening decades of the 20th century. This picture postcard is part of the Raphael Tuck & Sons "Photochrome" Series 6064 on "ANIMAL LIFE". It shows some of the swine of Saxony and was sent to "Mary, with love, Dad". We wonder if Mary squealed with delight when she received the card!

Some of the wonderful artifacts in the Museum School collection.

Today is #FloralDesignDay so we should look back at one of Ingersoll's more famous flower arrangers - Isabel Baxter. In the 1920's she and husband James Baxter were running a flower shop on Thames Street. When the Royal Family made their famous stop in Ingersoll on June 7, 1939 Isabel was asked to create a bouquet of flowers for Queen Elizabeth, the wife of King George VI. Fifty years later, when the Queen Mother was on a return trip to London Ontario, Isabel was asked to recreate the same bouquet.