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you'll make the acquain-
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loggers: storekeepers, cooks.
an

half the people of a.
valley. You won’t meet
them in person, but you'll

feel almost as if you have — —

thanks to the remarkably
realistic sculpted figures
that fill the house. .
Like many other people in
British Columbia, Mrs.
 McKirdy has decided that

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Dam reservoir. Mrs.
McKirdy wants. to show.
another side of the area.
“Some of the women in
town had a pottery club and
they sort of beat me into
joining,” explains. Mrs.
McKirdy. “I was making a
mug one day and decided to

_put a face on it. From then
on, I really got. involved.” Hm

The involvemént meant
sculpting representations of

the people’ who made the
valley.

“Tt wasn’t the
politicians or the wealthy,”

says Mrs. McKirdy. “It was |

the nameless ones who built
this valley.”

Her sculptures. so far
include a pig farmer with

’ his pigs, a man leaning on a

farm shovel to talk, loggers

at work or. at play, local
people in their stores or

other businesses, horses

drawing logs through the jg
, a trapper on
horseshoes, and all kinds of &

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other people who have lived

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Mrs. McKirdy obtains her
clay from a local creek. She
uses everyday substances to
produce the textures she
wants on her sculptures:
bark for the trees, knitting
_ rolled over the clay to give a
ribbed cloth texture, other
textured cloth for surfaces. -
‘Sometimes I know what I
‘want. when “I © start;
sometimes it just happens.
while I’m working,” says
Mrs. McKirdy. “I just want
a to show how things used to
(This Roam at Home
story ‘is one of a series
produced by the British
Columbia. Ministry of the.
’ Provincial Secretary and
Travel Industry.)

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