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Friday, December 2, 2011


Vote in the Kinmount Shoe Tree Poll

The Saga of the Knmount Shoe Trees continues with the following article from Kawartha Lakes This Week:

Shoe Trees Still Ruffling Feathers in Kinmount

Vote in the Poll featured beside the article
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Sunday, November 27, 2011


Kinmount Shoe Trees Get the Boot


Kinmount Shoe Trees UPDATE - November 2011
If you’ve driven west of Kinmount on Hwy. 45 lately, you may have noticed the legendary landmark, the Kinmount Shoe Trees,have been demolished and replaced with a "NO LITTERING" sign. It seems one either “loves” or “hates” the Shoe Trees. Though some may welcome the destruction of this “eyesore”, many are shocked, dismayed and angered at the devastation of such “a jolly, symbolic creation of hopes and dreams.”
Often referred to as “One of the Seven Wonders of Kinmount,”over the years the Shoe Trees grew to include 4 trees, a hydro pole, fencing and shoes strung on the hydro lines. It cannot be denied that the series of Shoe Trees was a unique, unmarked, tourist attraction. Who, among us Kinmount folk, hasn’t seen people posing for photos with the heritage display? But “People stopping to take photos, look at the trees or nail up shoes caused a traffic safety hazard,” says City of Kawartha Lakes Ward 3 CouncillorDave Hodgson, who initiated the removal of the Shoe Trees. At present, the answer to the following question remains elusive… Will the Saga of the Historical Kinmount Shoe Trees live on?


READ MORE.....

Kinmount - Area Shoe Trees No More - from The Lindsay Post


Shoe Trees Axed in Kinmount - from Kawartha Lakes This Week


Letters To the Editor at The Lindsay Post


More Letters to The Lindsay Post

 
More Letters at Kawartha Lakes This Week


Letters to the Kinmount Gazette


Kinmount Shoe Trees - Sarah on the Road update


Better to Apologize


Twas the Middle of Fall - poem by Susan Dier

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1 comment:

  1. crystaldragonAugust 19, 2012 at 5:56 PM

    This weekend my family and I went to Ottawa from Barrie for my Mother's 80th Birthday. We take the northern, more scenic route at least 2 or 3 times a year to visit her, always passing by the beloved shoe tree. We hadn't been that way in a year as we were living in Kingston for a while. We were, as always, looking forward to seeing and stopping by the shoe tree as we have contributed to it's growth for almost a decade. We loved coming to see our children's shoes we had left and enjoyed the memories we've had at the tree. We were thoroughly appalled to find it missing and extremely saddened to find out that the insensitive ignorance of some snobby city counselor had taken it upon himself to decide the fate of a part of Kinmount's history.

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