The meeting was called to order at 6:45 PM. Mary Blank, Loisanne Foster, John Salo, and Candy Wiggum were present. The Secretary’s and Treasurer’s reports were read and accepted.

Old Business:

“Four Days of Fury” will be held at 7:00 PM on June 15 at Perkins School. Chairs will be set up for us. We will need to set up our food table. We will not have our usual MHS gift and information table. Joe Marcotte and Mary Blank will see that the 1910 pumper is hauled out of the Hearse House and put on display in front of the school. Joe has arrangements for getting the other four engines in place there under control. This will be the first time since the 1941 fire that they have been together.

Museum Hours: Candy will host the Museum on June 18 from 9:30 AM until noon. Loisanne and Mary will do some summer hours.

Toleration Act Exhibit: Mary will ask for an extension on the initial blurb die June 15.

Liberty Elms: Candy reported that we are gaining contributions. She will go to the Select Board wth a package of information and propose putting one elm in the town square near the soldiers’ monument. We have a picture showing that there was one there, so this is a replacement. we have received several generous donations in memory of Geney Ames.

The Grange restoration: At the Grange the goal thermometer showing progress for the painting fund is up, and Ben Levesque has completed his Scout project of building window boxes which Candy has filled with flowers. This combination matches that of the Methodist Church. The sign for the Grange is in the works. Edward (Bucky) White has repaired the hole in the front of the building, evicting the nesting critters from it.

New Business:

Monadnock Music Dinner: The organizational meeting will be June 28. The dinner itself will be July 28. Mary has contacted Pat Gallup, and we do have the use of the inn for the event. Pat suggested having the rug concert for the children at the inn instead of at Jones Hall, and we discussed how to work this out.

Cooperation with Lempster: On quilt documentation day Mary talked with Bob Cilley, President of the Lempster Historical Society asking if Marlow and Lempster could work together on projects and programs, share speakers and field trips. The answer is a resounding yes.

Sign up for our trip to Colony House and Wyman Tavern in Keene: We will have a sign up sheet at “Four Days of Fury.”

Per our June Board Meeting we are planning a Field Trip scheduled for Friday, June 30th, meeting at the Chapel at 10 AM to carpool to Keene.

Our trip will include The Horatio Colony House Museum and the Wyman Tavern Museum.

The schedule would be as follows:

Depart from Chapel at 10:15

Park at HSCC ( 246 Main)

Walk to Colony House Museum ( 199 Main)

Lunch at 176 Main at 12:30

Walk to Wyman Tavern (339 Main) ( Walking to here is an option)

Return to HSCC at 3:15 to view their exhibit and facilities

(This Field Trip was postponed until next year)

Antique Tractors at Harvest Fest?: We are still waiting to hear from the Antique Tractor Association to discover whether or not they are willing to put on a display for the occasion.

Quilt Documentation: Lempster is sponsoring a N.H. Quilt Documentation Project, Phase II. Our Marlow Centennial Album Quilt (1886), though not in great shape, was documented for Phase I in 1991. We are now, through Lempster Historical Society, documenting it for Phase II which includes a more complete description and basting an identifying label on it. Julie Crossland is the Chair of the N.H. Quilt Documentation Project. For a complete description of this quilt and the documentation process along with hints for preserving quilts, see <marlowhistoricalsociety.org/phpbb> under “Genealogy.”

Marlow’s Veterans: This summer we will begin searching for Marlow residents who served in wars after World War II. We have complete documentation through World War II, but no records of who served in Korea, Vietnam, and the conflicts since then. We would like to preserve this information for posterity. If you can help, even with one name, please let us know. Loisanne Foster is the contact person: <losann@earthlink.net>

Gifts: We received from Nancy Feretti a box to archival material including items of antique clothing and a book,

The Huntleys Since the Civil War which will serve as an invaluable research tool as it contains, not only names and addresses at hundreds, but also social security numbers of deceased Huntleys so each can be precisely identified.

P.S.

Marlow Historical Society Web Forum: In the course of the year this has blossomed into a collection of more than 250 entries on Marlow history and genealogy grouped under several topics. It highlights a cast of historical Marlow characters, some of whom became “movers and shakers” in the outside world. We even have a narrative written by Solomon Mack who resided here in 1761 and parts of a letter by Caleb Blood, our first official minister. The Forum has become “Genealogy Central” for people researching their Marlow ancestors, and, though dialogue with them, we have learned a great deal about the town. The story of a town unique in all New England is emerging along with intriguing mysteries.

We currently have 30 registered users who post material. Last month the MHS Web Forum received over a quarter of a million “hits.” Join us in cyberspace.

<marlowhistoricalsociety.org/phpbb>

Respectfully submitted,
Loisanne Foster,
Secretary, MHS

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June 15, 2006