{"id":33384,"date":"2023-08-03T15:46:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T19:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=33384"},"modified":"2023-08-10T17:30:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T21:30:33","slug":"historical-society-wants-your-memories-of-growing-up-aurora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/historical-society-wants-your-memories-of-growing-up-aurora\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical Society wants your memories of \u201cGrowing Up Aurora\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

History doesn\u2019t have to be big and splashy. Every day experiences are just as important in informing who we are, where we\u2019ve been, and where we\u2019re going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Big and splashy, or even just \u201cmundane,\u201d the Aurora Historical Society wants to hear all your favourite memories of \u201cGrowing Up in Aurora.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This month, the Aurora Historical Society (AHS) launches its Growing Up Aurora exhibition, a compilation of stories and memories shared by Aurora residents about the community they call home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen people think of museums, they often think about the Victorian period or earlier; they don\u2019t think of the more recent history and part of the reason for this exhibit is to highlight the more recent time period and get people involved because\u2026I think people are very nostalgic for these memories,\u201d says AHS curator Kathleen Vahey. \u201cThis has been in the back of our minds for a few years, but things kind of got derailed with COVID. We\u2019re starting to come back and just doing a push for it to come out this summer as a constantly-evolving project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re never going to be able to capture every single memory of every single person in Aurora, but the purpose is to just continually be collecting stories, memories and things in perpetuity; this is kind of a kicking-off point to getting people thinking about it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The AHS is making a concerted effort in this instance to focus less on the Town\u2019s early history. Instead, they want memories of events and \u201cthings\u201d related to the Aurora Horse Show, early Canada Day celebrations, and even of trips just to get an ice cream cone at a corner store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m learning a lot researching, talking to people, talking about old photos, the different spots to hang out,\u201d says Vahey. \u201cI know we\u2019re a huge Canada Day town and have been for years; of the Horse Show, because that isn\u2019t around anymore; but what was it like going to school here? I know the schools have changed and morphed as well, but I think it all comes around to how much it has stayed the same as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPeople like to say, \u2018Oh, back in the good old days,\u2019 and \u2018things have changed so much, it\u2019s not like it used to be,\u2019 but kids are still growing up in Aurora, making great memories, and doing similar things. Maybe it has changed a little bit, but I think I think people will be surprised with the connections they might be able to make between the older and younger generations as well. It can be very mundane things that you maybe wouldn\u2019t think of, like someone submitting a picture of their cheerleading group from high school in the \u201870s. They may not have won any championships [but one person said], \u2018We just had so much fun and just laughed all the time. It was a great time and I loved it.\u2019 Those are just as important as the championship-winning games.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The aim of the new exhibition and ongoing project is less about the material objects than about the memories, so the AHS encourages everyone growing up or having grown up in Aurora to head over to their website and fill out the form that has some memory prompts. Once the exhibition is fully up and running, visitors to the AHS\u2019 Hillary House National Historic Site will be able to write down their memories for them to be pinned up alongside those of their neighbours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more, visit aurorahs.com\/growing-aurora.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Brock Weir
Editor
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n\r\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

History doesn\u2019t have to be big and splashy. Every day experiences are just as important in informing who we are, where we\u2019ve been, and where we\u2019re going. Big and splashy, or even just \u201cmundane,\u201d the Aurora Historical Society wants to hear all your favourite memories of \u201cGrowing Up in Aurora.\u201d This month, the Aurora Historical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general_news","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-8Gs","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 17:16:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}