August 1 - Other stops Along the way to Trois-Rivieres

The General Store in Yamachichi was the next stop. When we wandered into the store, we did not expect a store full of collectibles. Dennis, the owner, showed us the music hall upstairs and demonstrated his Pianola Aeolian. This mechanism is attached to any piano and plays music on 65 notes by a foot pedal worked by suction. The music rolls that Dennis used date back to 1904 when this unique player piano was created.

As a collector of bicycle photos and paraphernalia, I cherished the flowering bicycles I saw on a lawn along the route. There were six different bicycles with holders for flowers and I guessed that the owner must have welded each one.