Please also check the Cavendish VT Facebook page for photo
albums of various CHS activities.
WHAT WE’VE BEEN UP TO
Museum/Stone Church: Oct. 8
was the last day the Museum was opened for the season. While we are happy to
open it at other times, it’s awfully cold, as it’s not heated.
There
has been yet another delay on the doors. This time it was a fire marshal issue,
that’s since been resolved. However, our wonderful woodworker Dave Stern needs
wrist surgery and so the final installation will have to wait for spring. Dave
and Bob Naess have started preparing the area for the new doors.
Thanks
to Carl Leiner we have a much needed new sign for the Cavendish Stone Church.
If you are wondering what happened to the sign on the side of the museum, it
was destroyed when a trailer hit it. Carl is hard at work at replacing this
sign.
With
new signage and doors, the opening of the Museum in May 2018 is something to
look forward to.
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| Bruce McEnaney with students at Sturbridge |
Carmine Guica Young Historians Program: What a
busy month. Thanks to Stein van Schaik’s endowment, the 4th grade
had a day long workshop with experimental archeologist Charlie Paquin where
they learned “roots” skills of the first peoples of Cavendish/VT-flint
knapping, pottery, rope making, atlatl throwing and much more. Check out the
Facebook album for lots of pictures.
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| Learning to flint knap |
On Oct.
27, the endowment also covered the 4th and 5th graders
trip to Plimoth Plantation. The 6th graders spent that day at the
Sturbridge Museum, thanks to the Blueberry fund of Betty and Bruce McEnaney.
Check out the Facebook Album for
these trips. Rounding out the month was a Proctorsville Ghost Walk for 5th
graders and a visit to the W. Haven archeological dig by the 4th
graders.
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| Students at Plimoth |
Thank
you to the many volunteers that make this program possible- Bruce and Betty
McEnaney, Carolyn Solzhenitsyn, Pang Ting, Stein van Schaik and to the parents
who drove to Plimoth Plantation.
Researching Cavendish’s First People: CHS
provided a special post on
Oct. 9 in recognition of Indigenous Peoples Day, which has replaced Columbus
Day in Vermont.
Halloween: If you
missed CHS’s annual Cavendish Halloween post, check it out at the CHS blog.
WHAT’S
HAPPENING IN NOVEMBER?
On Nov. 1, the 5th grade will be
learning by doing with the annual Dia de los Muertos program. Visitors from
Russia will be here on Nov. 3 to see the Solzhenitsyn exhibit and on Nov. 8 is
the annual Fitton Mill Tour for the 6th grade will take place. While
a short month, preparations are underway for the school holiday program, this
year focusing on Poland. While we’ve been planning all year,, there is much to
do before January begins a year of various programs on Solzhenitsyn in honor of
his 100th birthday. 2018 is also the 170th anniversary of
Phineas Gage’s accident and various options are being considered. As always,
while planting season seems far off, we’re already discussing the 2018 plant
sale and when to start what plants.
HOW YOU CAN HELP
If you can help with
any of the following, please contact CHS margocaulfield@icloud.com; 802-226-7807 or PO Box 472, Cavendish, VT 05142
• Do you like to
paint? CHS has painting projects both at the Museum and at the Stone Church. We might just have a little bit of good weather
before snow flies to get in a project or two.
• Have Polish
traditions you’d like to share with the school children as part of the special
holiday program? We’re looking for craft ideas, foods etc.
• CHS is looking for
new board members as well as volunteers who can help with various activities.
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