Cream of the crop

Yesterday, we attended the Markerville Cream Day at the historic creamery in - wait for it - Markerville. The creamery is the bones of a socialist program that funded the operational costs and a butter maker to pioneers who could muster the funds to put up an acceptable building and had about 300 head of dairy cows. Now it's a museum, but they still keep in touch with what matters to plain folk, by selling Foothills Creamery ice cream. Yes, it is a celebration of the pioneer dairy industry and ice cream all in one. What a day! The kids enjoyed the craft station, the face painting, the cow-that-you-feed-hamburgers-to-and-they-come-out-the-bum. It was all very educational.