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NEWS RELEASE (CNS593) -->> NS MUSEUM--THANKSGIVING WEEKEND EVENTS NS MUSEUM--THANKSGIVING WEEKEND EVENTS ----------------------------------------------------------------- Thanksgiving weekend marks the last few days before many museums operated by the Nova Scotia Museum close on Oct. 15, and the museums are seeing the season out with special events. Attending an event at one of the museums is one way to celebrate the long weekend. On Sunday, Oct. 13, visitors to the Fundy Geological Museum in Parrsboro, can join a "Travel Back in Time Walk" and take a guided tour to West Bay. They can find out what the area might have looked like hundreds of millions of years ago. The interpreters show novice geologists where to look for fossils, fissures in the rock and other clues to what the world was like in prehistoric times. Also on Sunday, the Balmoral Grist Mill, Tatamagouche, is holding its annual Thanksgiving open house from 1 p.m. - 4 p.m. The miller will be grinding grains at the only working grist mill left in the province. Wagon rides, live music and picnic tables make for a great day outdoors. In New Ross, costumed interpreters at Ross Farm Museum are preparing for winter on Monday, Oct. 14. Visitors can find out how families lived through a Canadian winter without refrigerators, freezers, furnaces and cars. The interpreters are preserving food, splitting a huge pile of wood, and repairing snowshoes and sleds. Visitors to the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic, Lunenburg, are invited to come aboard the Theresa E. Connor, the museum's Grand Banks schooner, Monday, Oct. 14. They can tour the forecastle of the vessel, the fisherman's "home on the ocean" and get acquainted with the rigorous life of the men and boys who fished the Grand Banks. At Starr's Point, near Wolfville, Monday, Oct. 14, 1 p.m. - 3 p.m. the staff of Prescott House Museum, is using an apple press to make apple cider on the lawn. Inside, a special collection of apples of all varieties, rare and common, makes the entire museum smell delicious. Museums remaining open year-round are the Firefighters' Museum, Yarmouth; Fundy Geological Museum, Parrsboro; the Museum of Industry, Stellarton; and the two museums in Halifax; Museum of Natural History and the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. -30- Contacts: Ross Farm Museum, Sandra Creighton 902-689-2210 Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic, Jim Tupper 902-634-4794 Prescott House Museum, Caroline Power 902-542-3984 Fundy Geological Museum, Ken Adams 902-254-3814 Balmoral Grist Mill Museum, John Taylor 902-657-3016 trp Oct. 03, 1996 - 3:15 p.m.