The
CHS Annual Meeting will be on Feb. 24, 5 pm at the newly restored Episcopal
Church Parish Hall on Depot Street in Proctorsville. There will be a pot luck
supper, short meeting, and the film “The Homecoming” will be shown.
As part of establishing the permanent
exhibit “I Wrote and Waited,” which covers the 18 years Aleksandre
Solzhenitsyn, the 1970 Nobel Prize winner for literature and Soviet dissident,
lived in Cavendish, CHS selected this film as it begins in Cavendish. Produced
by the BBC, the film documents the two-month train journey across Russia as
Solzhenitsyn returns home to Russia with his family after twenty years of
enforced exile. Solzhenitsyn, the man who experienced and revealed to the
world the full horror of the Soviet gulag, is recognized throughout Russia as
'the conscience of the nation'. But despite the triumphant and emotional
homecoming, this is no easy ride for Solzhenitsyn, his wife and American sons.
Instead, they abandon their refuge in America to find their trans-Siberian trip
from Vladivostok to Moscow dogged by the KGB, the Russian Mafia, old-style
communist bosses, the tragic plight of ordinary Russians and the echoes of its
even more terrible past.
CHS is currently looking for new board members, as well as volunteers.
If you have an interest in Cavendish history, or would like to be involved in
the various programs of CHS, please e-mail margoc@tds.net
or call 802-226-7807. You do not have to be a resident of Cavendish to serve on
the board. We are also in need of volunteers who have experience or interest in
archival work, exhibits, displays, web design, fundraising, maintenance and
public speaking.
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