Market Day in Lisburn Town Centre

You’ll have to come to downtown Lisburn on a Tuesday. The place is packed with shoppers, and the vendors have a great array of wares. There are fishmongers, folks selling fresh produce (some of it from local market gardens), and others selling bedding, clothes, jewellery, crafts and art. On the main street there is always a Brethren preacher who is preaching using old-fashioned language in a voice that makes him sound like a town crier. Just around the corner last Tuesday a busker who appeared to have emigrated from India was playing an accordion. As I listened more closely, I realized that he was playing the song, “Red River Valley.” The incongruity made me smile but so did the song because it made me think of growing up on our farm in Pipestone.