This is going to be a short brief since we’ll be publishing the quarterly newsletter in a few weeks, however, we are thrilled to let you know that the McEnaney’s amazing blueberries are once again ripe and ready for picking. As CHS board member Bruce will tell you, “they are the best ever as you pick them yourself.” Proceeds from the picking goes towards the CTES 6th graders trip to Sturbridge Village and the Carmine Guica Young Historians program.
The
McEnaneys blueberry patch is located at 354 Miner Rd. just over the Cavendish
line in Chester. It's off Smokeshire, which is off route 103. Berries are
$3 a pound . Thank you Bruce and Betty for your ongoing generosity. The kids
love this trip.
WHAT WE’RE DOING
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| Bob Naess & Dave Stern with "the doors" |
Museum: The doors have posed
more than one challenge this summer to Dave Stern and Bob Naess but they are
making progress and with any luck they’ll be installed this month.
Carmine Guica Young Historians: CHS is now working
with the After School Program (ASP) to offer a Roots camp for two weeks in
August. The first week will focus on how first peoples lived off the land while
the second week will provide “hands on history” for life in Cavendish for European
settlers.
The
state has changed the curriculum requirements so CHS has begun working with the
teachers in addressing programing ideas for the up coming school year.
Solzhenitsyn: We’re
entertaining people from around the world as they visit Cavendish during the
100th anniversary of Solzhenitsyn’s birth. CHS has a number of
speaking engagements leading up to the anniversary on Dec. 11. An evolving
calendar for the months ahead includes:
• September 7-8: Reading Solzhenitsyn: An International Conference Margo Caulfield will be speaking on Sept 7 as part of the program for teachers.
Her talk will be “The
Stories behind the Quotes: Using Solzhenitsyn's Writings for 21st Century
Students.”
• October
15: Publication of “Between Two Millstones, Book 1.”
Fast-paced, absorbing, and as compelling as the earlier installments of his
memoir The Oak and the Calf (1975), Between Two Millstones
begins on February 12, 1974, when Solzhenitsyn found himself forcibly expelled
to Frankfurt, West Germany, as a result of the publication in the West of The
Gulag Archipelago. Solzhenitsyn moved to Zurich, Switzerland, for a time
and was considered the most famous man in the world, hounded by journalists and
reporters. During this period, he found himself untethered and unable to work
while he tried to acclimate to his new surroundings. There are passages on
Solzhenitsyn’s family and their property in Cavendish, Vermont, whose forested
hillsides and harsh winters evoked his Russian homeland, and where he could
finally work undisturbed on his ten-volume history of the Russian Revolution, The
Red Wheel.
• November
15: Vermont Historical Society at the Marsh room, Billings Building at
University of Vermont. Presentation by
Margo Caulfield “I Wrote and Waited": Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Life in
Cavendish, VT
• Margo will
also be doing a presentation for the Oshler Center for Life Long Learning at
Dartmouth. Date to be announced.
• The
Solzhenitsyn exhibit continues at the Vermont Historical Society Museum in
Montpelier until October.
SAVE THE DATE
Sept: 9 (Sunday): Annual Phineas Gage Talk & Walk-Met at the Museum at 2 pm. Wear
comfortable walking shoes. The accident site is a little over ¾ of a mile from
the Museum
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
• Baby
Boomers: Recently CHS acquired a fan from the 1950s and it has sparked a
conversation that we have far more examples of life in 1800s Cavendish then we
do from more recent times. If you have items you would like to donate, CHS is working
on a “Life in Cavendish-Baby Boomer Style.”
• CHS is looking for new board members as well as
volunteers who can help with various activities.
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