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Gilberts: A look at Melba Simpson’s Tupperville

As many of you know, I have been co-ordinating a plaquing initiative here in Chatham-Kent for the last three years.

As many of you know, I have been co-ordinating a plaquing initiative here in Chatham-Kent for the last three years.

We are working on 11 new plaques to be unveiled this spring and summer. Look for more information about these plaques over that time.

Gilberts: A look at Melba Simpson’s Tupperville Back to video

We did have 12 plaque nominations to begin with this year. Tupperville was one of them. Unfortunately (for us) Kaelyn Gregory, curator of the Wallaceburg and District Museum, was working on it, and she is moving on to the Homer Watson House in Kitchener.

We certainly wish Kaelyn all the best in her new position, but we will miss her. She was a bright light in the Chatham-Kent heritage community.

That leaves the Tupperville plaque without a rudder, and while in the past I might have taken the reins, I have made a commitment to myself and my loving husband, Jim, that I........

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