The Townshippers Association officially announced the return of Townshippers Day on Wednesday, confirming The Record’s report from the beginning of March that the annual event will be back for at least the next three years starting at Richmond Regional High School on September 29. In an effort to make the celebration of local English more interesting to a broader audience, the gathering has been rebranded “Festival des Townshippers Festival” and will revolve around the theme, “Everybody’s a Townshipper.” “We feel this is something everybody is going to be able to enjoy,” said Townshippers Association President Gerald Cutting, “we’re all going to get together and we’re all going to celebrate what is, in a real sense, what it is to be an English speaking Quebecer in the Eastern Townships. For one day anybody can be a Townshipper in the same way that on Saint Patrick’s Day, anybody can put on something green and be Irish and celebrate an Irish festival.” See full story in the Thursday, March 29th edition of The Record.
T-Day becomes ‘Festival des Townshippers Festival’ for fall 2018
By Gordon Lambie
