If you have questions or would like to volunteer with CHS, please e-mail margocaulfield@icloud.com or call 802-226-7807.
PLANT SALE/ORDER NOW: CHS’s Annual Plant Sale is May 29 (Memorial Weekend Saturday), with an “early bird special” the night before, on the Museum grounds. Once again we will be offering tomatoes to go (Early girl, Sun gold, cherry) as well as the salad buckets and herb pots. We’re now taking orders until May 10 (Monday) for these items.
Tomatoes are $10 and come in five gallon food grade buckets. Salad buckets are $15 a piece and includes a variety of greens. These can last you the whole summer and into the fall. Herb pots include a variety of herbs, each one being slightly different. These are $15 and come in a suitable container for gift giving.
We
have some new gardeners contributing this year, so we hope to have a plant list
at the CHS blog by May 20. We’ll also be posting on the Cavendish VT Facebookpage as we get closer to the event.
We will only being doing deliveries this year for those who are home bound.
If you have questions, call, e-mail or text to the numbers above.
VIRTUAL CAVENDISH ESCAPE ROOM: We’re so excited to announce an on-line “Cavendish Escape Room”designed by Lorien Strange, a Cavendish home school student. Already winning awards for her writing, one of the CHS board members noted after playing the game ..even if Lorien doesn’t become a writer, and I don’t see why she wouldn’t, she already writes better than most of us.
We gave her a variety of Cavendish history books and she managed to incorporate quite a bit of local history, including Phineas Gage, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the Duttons, Fitton Mill and so much more.
As far as suitable ages, Lorien noted the following, I had my younger brother, who is almost ten, play test the game. He got through it in about an hour and ten minutes. Wonderful activity for a wet rainy day to do with kids or by yourself. Can you beat Lorien’s brother’s time?
Thank you Lorien for combining history and gaming in such an interesting and fun manner.
ALL SET TO DIG: Thanks to Dave Gallagher and Ana, our amazing duo who gave us the CHS Cares Closet, we now have the screens to do some archeological digs in Cavendish. If you are interested in learning more about this, contact us at the numbers above.
SUMMER PROJECTS: If you are a local you know how challenging Route 131 is at the moment. A major road replacement and repaving is underway, which will not be completed until the fall. However, work will be taking place on both the Stone Church (thank you Doug McBride for the staging) and the Museum (thank you Chris Chadwick for taking care of the broken window).
UPCOMING EVENTS
May 28 (Friday): Plant Sale Early Bird Special 5:30-7:00 PM. Farmer’s Market Covid requirements apply-that means masking and social distancing.
May 29 (Saturday): Annual Plant Sale from 8:30-Noon. Note the CHS Cares Closet will be open so a good time to load up on free summer reading, puzzles, art supplies as well as cloth and surgical masks.
June 19 (Saturday): Midsummer Night’s Eve Cavendish Village Ghost Walk. Meet at the Museum at 8 pm.
July 11 (Sunday): The Museum will be open from 2-4 pm for the season. This is dependent on Covid regulations.
July 31 (Saturday): 11th Annual Cavendish Town Wide Tag Sale. 9-2.
September 12 (Sunday): Annual Phineas Gage Walk & Talk, meet at the CHS Museum at 2 pm. Walk portion if about a mile and a half and includes a visit to the site of the accident.
NEW AT THE CHS BLOG
• Carmine Guica Young Historians Update for May: Includes information for remote learners, teachers, parents etc. Contains a lot of historical information and resources for the month ahead. https://cavendishhistoricalsocietynews.blogspot.com/2021/04/cgyhu-for-may-2021.html
WE COULD USE YOUR HELP
Plant Sale: If you are dividing plants or have extras, please consider donating them to the CHS Annual Plant Sale. We can provide you with pots and soil. If you need some assistance we can possibly help with that as well.
COVID-19: CHS continues to collects items, stories etc. associated with the pandemic for archival purposes. If you have something you would like to donate, please contact us.
CHS CARES CLOSET: If you or someone you know would like to receive items from the closet, but can’t get there, e-mail margocaulfield@icloud.com or call 802-226-7807 with your requests for books, puzzles, craft projects, hands on history kits, masks etc. If you have items you’d like to donate to the Closet, please call 802-226-7807 or e-mail margocaulfield@icloud.com
Donations for CHS can be sent to CHS, PO Box 472, Cavendish, VT 05142. Checks should be payable to the Cavendish Historical Society.
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