Each year, the Neilson Store Museum and Cultural Centre is pleased to hold a series of “Back Room Talks” on topics of interest to our island community. All are welcome to attend these Talks.
Back Room Talk Series for 2025
Schedule Coming Soon!
Past Back Room Talks
June 2023: Mabyn Armstrong – “A Turtle Protector and Conservationist”
May 2023: Dr. Audra McMullen – Rebuilding of Stone Walls and Civic Communion
May 2022: Stephen Bruce Medd – “If Lilacs Could Sing: Poems and Song”
February 2020: Suzanne Pasternak – “The Old Woman and the Wishing Tree / The Tibetans of Belleville”
November 2019: KFLA Public Health -“Fall Prevention Starts with You”
October 2019: Ross M. Stuart – “How to Build a Tin Can Banjo / Ukulele”
April 2019: Matt Ellerbeck – “The Conservation of Frogs”
March 2019: Suzanne Pasternak – “1917: The Halifax Explosion and the Boston Tree”
November 2018: Suzanne Pasternak -1918: The Boy Soldier from Hillier”
May 2018: Thomas Sylvester – “The 1857 William Perceval Map of Amherst Island”
April 2018: Terry McGinn – “A Demonstration of Tabletop Role Playing”
March 2018: Janet Scott – “Owls for Dinner: An Introduction to Project SNOWstorm”
March 2018: Larry Jensen – “Sailing in the Caribbean 600 Race”
October 2017: John Schutzbach – “My Wanderings in Europe and the People I Have Met”
June 2017: Matthew Maas – “The History of Amherst Island, Its Stone Walls, and the Drumgoole Family”
March 2017: Margaret Maloney & Peter Large – “The Galapagos and Machu Picchu”
February 2017: Gloria M. Hunter – “Nurse at the Top of the World”
January 2017: Shyanne Shurtliffe – “The Martha’s Table Experience”