Talbot - Nash Family Reunion
1963
Lethbridge Herald Newspaper

Thanks to Marlene, we have this great article that was printed in the Lethbridge Herald in 1963
about the Talbot/Nash Reunion that took place at Lomond, Alberta, Canada. Read and enjoy.
And many thanks to Marlene for sending this along.

Talbot Family Reunion 1963 (Lethbridge, Herald) The Talbot family, descendents of Thomas and Sarah Nash (Homesteaders of Spring ridge, near Pincher Creek in 1901) held a family reunion in Civic centre in Lomond on Sunday, November 29th. Two sons of Dan Nash and a grandson of Tom Nash, and their families, were present, making a gathering of 125 persons. The day was spent curling and skating, with games laid on the dining room for the younger set, when they tired of the skating. A smorgasbord supper was served at 5:30 p.m. Dispensing with speeches, Russell Briscoe read what could have been the Will of Tom Talbot, had he made one: A Most Unusual Will “I, being of sound and disposing mind and memory, do here hereby make and publish this my be last will and testament in order as to justly as may be, to distribute my interest in the world among succeeding men. That part of my interest which is known in law and recognized in the sheep-bound volumes as my property, being inconsiderable and of no account, I make no disposition of in this, my will. My right to live, being but a life estate, is not at my disposal, but, these things excepted, all else in the world I now proceed to devise and bequeath. Item: I give to good fathers and mothers, in trust for their children, all good little words of praise and encouragement, and all quaint pet names and endearment, and I charge said parents to use them justly as the deeds of their children shall require. Item: I leave to children inclusively, but only for the term of their childhood all and every flower of the field and the blossoms of the woods, with the right to play among them freely according to the custom of children, warning them at the same time against thistles and thorns. And I devise to children the banks of the brooks and the golden sands beneath the water thereof, and the odors of the willows that dip therein, and the white clouds the float high over the giant trees. And I leave the children the long, long days to be merry in, in a thousand ways, and the night and the train of the Milky Way to wonder at, but subject, never the less to the tight hereinafter given to lovers Item: I devise to boys, jointly all the useful idle fields and commons where ball may be played. All pleasant waters where one may swim, all snow clad hills where one may coast, and ponds where one may fish, or where when grim winter comes, one may skate, to hold the same for the period of the boyhood. And all meadows with the clover-blossoms and butterflies thereof; the woods with their beauty; the squirrels and the birds and the echoes and strange noises, and all distant places, which may be visited, together with adventures there found. And I give to said boys each his own place at the fireside at might, with all pictures that may be seen in the burning wood, to enjoy without let or hindrance or without any encumbrance or care. Item: To lovers I devise their imaginary world, with whatever they may need, as the stars of the sky, the red roses be the wall, the bloom of the hawthorn the sweet stains of music, and aught else they may desire to figure to each other the lasting ness and beauty of their love. Item: To young men, jointly, I bequeath all the boisterous, in-spring sports of rivalry and I give to them the disdain of weakness and undaunted confidence in their own strength. Tho they are rude, I leave to them the power to make lasting friendships, and of possessing companions, and to them, exclusively, I give all merry songs and grave choruses to sing with lusty voices. Item: And to those who are no longer children or youths or lovers, I leave memory; and bequeath to them the volumes of the poems of Burns and Shakespeare and of the other poets, if there be others, to the end that they may live in the old days over again, freely and fully without tithe or diminution. Item: To our loved ones with snowy crowns, I bequeath the happiness of old age, the love and gratitude of their children until they fall asleep.” A sing-song followed the supper with Alex Fraser of Lomond at the piano, and Arthur Charlesworth leading the singing. To finish the day, the family gathered at the home of Oliver and Doreen Hart to listen to tape recordings of two songs written by Winnifred Dragland (Talbot) and set to music. David Strand was the vocalist. Farewells were the harder part of the day, but plans for the summer reunion were already in the planning stages.