Please also check the Cavendish VT Facebook page for photo albums of various CHS activities.
HAPPY
MAY DAY! Celebrated as a traditional springtime
festival or as an international day honoring workers, Cavendish’s Duttonsville
School use to make May Day Baskets, distributing them to various people in town. The Cavendish Historical Society (CHS) is bringing back this tradition by making May Day Baskets with Cavendish
home schoolers and the 5th graders at Cavendish Town Elementary
School (CTES).
WHAT
WE’VE BEEN DOING
Carmine
Guica Young Historians: The end of the school is a very busy time.
There are two days of May Day activities, including our 5th graders
planting herbs (sweet basil, oregano, thyme, parsley,
English lavender, cilantro, sage, and rosemary) for the CHS Annual Plant Sale (June 30).
The 6th graders
will be making poppies for the town’s annual Memorial Day activities (May 30),
and on May 16th will be cleaning in the Cavendish cemeteries and
placing flags on veterans’ graves.
On June 13th the 3rd
grade will be spending the day at Canterbury Shaker Village in New Hampshire.
Solzhenitsyn: The Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn Center has recently launched an English website, which also includes a Facebook page and blog.
Mary McCallum of Proctorsville, and a
commentator for Vermont Public Radio (VPR), recently spoke about Solzhenitsyn’s
need for privacy and how that might have changed if he were still alive. Listen
at the VPR website.
CHS has recently
received a bronze sculpture, a gouache
painting and a sketch of Solzhenitsyn by the artist Drago Cherina from Margo
and Ian Baldwin. These artworks will be on display at the Museum this summer.
100th Birthday Year Activities
• May 14 (Monday): Margo Caulfield of CHS will be
interviewed on Vermont Edition, VPR, along with University of Vermont Russian
Professor Kevin McKenna. The program airs 12-1 and again at 7 PM. A podcast
will be available at the VPR website.
• May 17 (Thursday): Noon. UVM professor Kevin McKenna will talk
about the influential Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and his time living
and writing in Vermont at the Third Thursday Talk at the Vermont Historical
Society in Montpelier. Third Thursday talks are free & open to everyone.
Bring your lunch, coffee & tea provided
• May19 (Saturday): 1 pm Exhibit Opening:
Solzhenitsyn in Vermont at the Vermont Historical Society Museum in Montpelier.
Produced in partnership with the Cavendish Historical Society and the
University of Vermont, the exhibit celebrates the life and work of
Russian novelist and historian Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on what would be the
100th anniversary of his birth through photographs, quotes, and family
memories. It is open through October 2018 in the Jackie Calder Gallery at the
Museum.
Museum & Stone Church: With any
luck the new doors to the Museum will be installed by Memorial Day weekend when
the Museum opens, thanks to Dave Stern and Bob Naess. Due to a windstorm in
April, our remaining sign on the Museum was blown down. In the fall, the sign
with hours open was destroyed when a driver backed into it. Carl Leiner has
signs ready to go, and we hope both signs will be up in the next few weeks.
Becky
Plunkard is working on door arrangements for both the Stone Church and the
Museum, while Svetlana and Kem Phillips will once again be working their magic
with the planter on the side of the Museum.
WHAT’S
COMING UP
Museum Opens: The
Museum’s summer season begins on May 27 and will be open every Sunday from 2-4
pm. You can arrange to visit at another time by e-mailing margocaulfield@icloud.com or
calling 802-226-7807
Annual Plant Sale:
CHS’s annual plant sale takes place on Saturday June 30. Transplanting starts
in mid May.
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 have plants you would like to donate to the
annual plant sale? Do you need help digging them up? We can provide pots, soil
and even some manpower. We begin transplanting after May 13.
• Painters, scrappers and repairers: We need
volunteers willing to do some basic carpentry to repair the banisters of the
Museum. We will also need painters for the steps and banister.
• CHS is looking for new board members as well as
volunteers who can help with various activities.
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