The tradition of Apple Pie Day lives on in the Town of Mossbank this year
For as long as anyone can remember the folks at Mossbank and District have used apples from their trees to make pies for Apple Pie Day— the third Wednesday in August.
Friends, family, former residents and strangers came to the town 45 minutes drive south of Moose Jaw for the apple pie with ice cream and cheddar cheese.
The tables in the museum visitor centre, once a one-room school, were full of pie slices as the afternoon event started but the pies weren’t so abundant at day’s end.
Most folks enjoyed the picnic like atmosphere outside on this sunny day. Some bought whole pies.
Apple Pie Day is the main source of funds for the Mossbank and District Museum, located on the north end of Main Street.
The cluster of buildings centres on the Ambrosz blacksmith shop, the only remaining old style blacksmith shop in its original location in Saskatchewan.
The Ambrosz cottage with iron picket fence, apple, crabapple trees and lilac bushes is next. Two other buildings have an assortment of pioneer displays and an exhibit related to the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan base that was here as well as machinery.
Pie guests were encouraged to view the museum.
The museum tries to keep the community connected to the past and the struggles pioneers had.
“We’ve got to keep it going,” said volunteer Ken Kirkpatrick. “The young people don’t have a clue about the past.
“I set out a typewriter for some of them and they looked at it, said 'I don't know how to turn it on’.”
The museum missed only one Apple Pie Day in 2020 because of the pandemic restrictions.
