Today’s post comes from Sheila Wiebe, marketing specialist at Bronte Creek Provincial Park.
Sometimes you must go back to move forward. Take the family picnic for example.
Up until Victorian times, picnics were exclusively enjoyed by the wealthy. After all, picnics were very grand affairs with tables, linens, crystal, chairs, servers, — and gourmet fare, of course!
But the Victorian era saw the picnic cross class boundaries. Even the picnics of the early 1900s were more formal than today — a far cry from our blankets and coolers, but the idea was ultimately the same.
