Marlow
Historical Society Minutes & Reports
May
2007
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Marlow
Historical Society / Executive
Board Meeting / May
15, 2007, 6:30 PM The
meeting opened at 6:40 PM with Mary Blank, Loisanne Foster, Art Schmid
and Candy Wiggum present. The Secretary’s Report was read and accepted
as read. Since our meeting
in April consisted of preparing to mail the membership and contribution
forms, it was the March minutes which were read. The Treasurer’s
Report was read and accepted as read. Old
Business: Loisanne
reports that Kathy Harvey is continuing the conservation work on our
1876 Album Wedding Quilt. We have received and set aside donations
specifically for the project adequate to cover the cost, so no money
will be expended from the general fund for this. In
support of Marlow Conservation efforts, we have donated to the Marlow
Library Saving Special Places: Community Funding for Land
Conservation by Brian
Hart of the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests and
Dorothy Tripp Taylor of the Center for Land Conservation. Mary
reports that John Asseng has pruned the elms which were planted in the
fall. We thank you, John! We still need to stake the trees and protect
the trunks. Candy
has repainted the sign for the Hearse House, and it will go up soon.
Candy has also planted pansies in the Murray Hall window boxes. Al
and Mary Blank will set out and apply sealer to prevent decay and secure
the bench by the new elms at the
Quiet Spot beside Murray Hall. Art Schmid advised getting a
“high-end” sealer for the job. The money for it will come out of our
Liberty Elm Fund. Mary will contact Joe Baril and ask him to set the
plaque for The Quiet Spot in concrete. Al will repair the outhouse
before Memorial Day. Loisanne will ask the Marlow Art Colony if they
would be willing to paint it fancifully after a coat of spray paint has
been applied. Mary reports that the cost of painting Murray Hall is now
entirely paid. New
Business: Our
2007 project for Murray Hall will be to have an identification sign made
for it. Candy reports that the cost will be $120.00. We
hope to improve the Highway Department peninsula along Route 10 north of
the village and plant two of our three remaining elms there. Mary will
meet with the Selectmen and Highway Department about the feasibility and
process for accomplishing this. A drainage problem will need to be
solved and fill added before grass seed and elms are planted. We
have one elm tree left, after the two for the peninsula. Candy suggested
that we put the last elm where the cherry treefell along the side of
Jones Hall. We agreed. Another
2007 project for MHS will be to restore the Hearse House. This will
involve a thorough cleaning, inside and out, including a power wash for
the outside; scraping, as necessary, and painting. Art Schmid
volunteered to contribute the paint, a new ultra-paint that flexes. Art
asked about the condition of the Hearse House roof, and Mary reported
that it is in good condition. We hope to accomplish the painting with
the help of a work crew, perhaps for our June 21 meeting, if the prep
work can be accomplished by then. Art will ask Bucky White what needs to
be done to prepare it. Loisanne suggested the title, “The Magic of
Midsummer’s Eve.” This
plan is in keeping with our new policy of generally involving our
membership rather than attempting to entertain in a world filled with
media entertainment. We
need to be ready for Memorial Day and the opening of the MHS Museum at
the Chapel. We need to clean the museum and move the new bookshelves
from the middle of the floor to the office. Art, Loisanne, Mary, and
Candy volunteered do this Saturday morning and Mary will fine-tune
before the opening. Mary volunteered to take care of the refreshment
table on Memorial Day and Loisanne volunteered to be the docent at the
museum from 9:30 AM until noon on that day. [Since Loisanne was, after
all, unable to do this, she
found two people who graciously agreed to fill in for her, Gen Ells and
Johanna Kent. Pam Little,
Gerry Plotts, Leaugeay Taylor, and JoAnn Hartwell indicated that they
would be willing to help with this at another time.] We agreed that our
public event for May would be our participation in Memorial Day and
museum opening. Loisanne and Candy volunteered to take care of the June
and July museum hours. Mary
has discovered more Marlows in her “Other Marlows” Project:
Monadnock
Music Concert and Dinner will be on a Saturday night this year: August
11. We need to raise $600.00 through solicitations. We will do a letter
asking for donations for the concert at our June 5th meeting at The
Chapel. We
will participate in the Newport History Fair with a Marlow booth. Mary
is preparing the set up and display, and Loisanne is preparing booklets
from our MHS archives. Although
we will be selling sweatshirts, note paper, and the usual items, we plan
to emphasize our projects and our Web Forum, especially the genealogical
aspect. We will be giving out bookmarks with our web address. The fair
will be at the Newport Opera House from 9:00 AM until 5:00 PM
on Saturday, June 2. Mary,
Loisanne, and Candy will cover it. The
HSCC Forum is at the Jaffrey Civic Center on June 21, beginning at 9:30
AM “Four
Days of Fury,” the Marlow fire documentary by Charlie Strickland and
Tracy Messer will be shown at Stoddard Old Home Days on July 12. Mary
suggests that we do a fall program emphasizing Marlow genealogy
highlighting the work of the MHS Web Forum. She suggests that Loisanne
make a Powerpoint presentation on this.
Loisanne is considering..... Respectfully
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