Admission Time

Do you remember Grace’s? Admission time for me, one of the book’s co-authors, I don’t remember Grace’s! Over the past 4 or 5 years as we’ve been working on the book and listening to people’s fond memories of Grace’s I feel as though I’ve come to know her and what made the restaurant so special, but sadly, my experience of Grace’s is all second hand. I came to Guelph in the late 70s to attend university, and I was living in Fergus for the first few years I was here, so really did not get to know much about the Royal City. By the time I moved to Guelph, Grace’s was long gone. But more than 3 decades after the restaurant closed I continue to be amazed by the number of people whose memories are triggered by the picture of that humble little clapboard building that we have included on our poster display.
We’ve started attending fall markets and craft shows to promote the book (see our calendar for a full schedule), and wherever we go people want to stop and talk about Grace, the restaurant and the way Guelph used to be. We knew when we started this project that lots of locals still had fond memories of that time, but I don’t think we anticipated just how many people were touched by Grace in a way that has so strongly survived the passage of time. We look forward to our ventures out to the local sales and the chance to share memories and stories with all of Grace’s fans, both the old and the new ones we’ve converted with the publication of this book. Hope to see you at one of our events!