CHS Briefs October 1, 2018

Please also check the Cavendish VT Facebook page for photo albums of various CHS activities.

Yes the new doors for the Museum are finally being hung! Things always seem to take longer than we plan on and as a result, the Museum has been closed for the last two weeks. We hope the doors will be working so we can hold our last program of the season at the Museum on Oct. 7- 1^st Peoples of the Americas and Vermont. In the event that construction is still underway, we will post notices at the Cavendish VT Facebook page and CHS blog.

Special thanks to Bob Naess and Dave Stern for their ongoing efforts on this project. 

WHAT WE’RE DOING

Carmine Guica Young Historians: Between taking the Cavendish Town Elementary School (CTES) 5^th and 6^th graders to Constitution Day  at Coolidge, RiverSweep,  and blueberry picking, the school year is off to a good start. October includes a special workshop on 1^st Peoples for the 5^th graders as well as the annual trip for the 6^th grade to Sturbridge Village. For the first time we will be taking the 4^th grade, along with a few students from Green Mountain Union High School, on the Fall Foliage Train History Tour.

Thank you to our incredible volunteers Doris Eddy, Bruce McEnneny, Peggy Svec, and Pang Ting. None of this would be possible without the contributions from Stein van Schaik and the McEnneny’s Blueberry Fund.

Solzhenitsyn:. While Margo Caulfied spoke at the Reading Solzhenitsyn: An International Conference at Northern Vermont University on Sept. 7, it was exciting to host so many conference speakers the following day in Cavendish.

Upcoming activities include:

• 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.

• The Solzhenitsyn exhibit continues at the Vermont Historical Society Museum in Montpelier until October 20.

• November 15: Vermont Historical Society at the University Heights South, Room 133.  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.

SAVE THE DATE

Oct. 7 (Sunday): 1^st Peoples of Cavendish Talk will focus on the earliest occupants of the land, dating back 11,000 years ago. It will include a discussion of how North America became occupied and evidence of first occupation in Cavendish. The talk begins at 2 pm.

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.