Executive Board Meeting / Marlow Historical Society / Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2007

Present: Mary Blank, Adam Plumb, Art Schmid, Candy Wiggum, and Loisanne Foster

The Secretary’s Report was read and accepted as read. The Treasurer’s Report was read, explained, and accepted as read.

Old Business:

We have paid another $50.00 toward the Murray hall painting, reducing the debt to $600.00.

Art Schmid asked what remains to be done at Murray Hall. We spoke of windows, electrical work, and finishing the interior. We agreed that, now that the building is sound, electrical work should be next.

Accolades: We congratulated ourselves on the huge success of the Christmas program, which was entertaining and popular and termed by some, the best they had seen. Several people expressed a wish to be involved next year. Although some wish to see the exact same program next year, we plan to do a variation on the theme.

Adam Plumb reported that, because some of the land owners involved did not respond or declined to allow their property to be used, he cannot carry out the Eagle Scout Project of the History Trail, so he is planning to do a project on Marlow’s Profile (rock face) instead. We agreed to help him all we can.

We agreed that Loisanne should contact Kathy Harvey to ask her to carry out our Marlow Album Quilt Conservation Project, as previously outlined, at the cost of $250.00. Mary, Candy, and Loisanne each pledged to contribute $40.00 to complete the funds required so we will not have to draw from the general fund for this project.

Candy asked if we had talked to Tony Davis yet about transforming “the island” by the old Marlow Cafe, the Newport Road Triangle, into a more welcoming entrance to town along Route 10. We have several more elm trees, which we propose to plant there. Mary will discuss this with Tony Davis and appropriate authorities. Adam suggested that we contact the Agriculture Department at UNH as an inexpensive alternate source of more trees.

New Business:

Art requested software and instruction for the Treasurer’s work.

The Pot Luck Supper and Work Night to kick off the new year will be held at 6:00 PM, Thursday, Jan 18. After supper and a brief business meeting, we will work together on the membership renewals and fund drive. Annual reports will be available.

We discussed the 2007 calendar. For the February meeting, several possible topics were suggested for our ongoing Oral History Project: Historic Marlow Romances, Marlow Sports Stories, and Wild and Wooly Weather.

March will bring our “Meet the Candidates Program” and the food concession at the Town meeting. We decided to lighten the complexity of the food offerings, but have just coffee, cold drinks, breakfast foods and dessert finger-food. [Later, when the Town Warrant came out with 29 articles, we changed this to include soups and breads.]

We need volunteers willing to handle the business of the Monadnock Music Concert (which has never been our responsibility) as Leon and Lydia Stevens are no longer available to take care of it, and, of course, we plan to carry out our Monadnock Music Dinner, traditionally our largest and most labor-intensive fundraiser of the year.

Other suggested programs:

Tracy Messer, speaking on the history of PC Connection.

The scuba diver from Maine, owner of the Terra Cotta Pasta Co., who regularly dives into the Ashuelot behind our dam and brings up interesting artifacts. He has expressed willingness to speak to us about his finds.

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