Please also check the Cavendish VT Facebook page for photo albums of various CHS activities.
RESEARCHING AND WRITING
March was
Women’s History Month. If you missed our weekly posts on Cavendish Women You Should
Know, you can check them out as follows:
WHAT WE’RE DOING
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| Tim O'Donaghue speaking |
Annual Meeting: CHS held their annual on March 31. The film “Alone in the Wilderness”
was a big hit as well as the presentation by Proctorsville resident Tim O’Donaghue,
who shared his photographs and stories about being at Twin Lakes in June 2018.
Based on expressed interest, we will be looking to show Part II in the series
later this summer.
Carmine Guica Young Historians: St. Patrick’s Day was once
again a fun day of activities with students in grades 3, 5th & 6th.
As always the Irish Soda Bread (recipe from County Cork) was a big hit. This
year the 6th grade learned how to make labyrinths while the 5th
graders, who are studying the Colonial period, focused on the first Irish who
came to America and their role in the Revolutionary War.
As we move
into the warmer months, lots of new school programming this year. On April 4,
we will be teaching the first graders how to make felt balls from sheep wool. On
April 8, they will learn the types of games that were played by early settlers
as well as Native Americans.
Solzhenitsyn: The Cavendish Select Board
has given approval for the Vermont Historic Road Marker for Solzhenitsyn. We
plan on submitting the application in the next few weeks.
SAVE THE DATE
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| Craig's old plant sale list |
May 25 (Saturday): CHS
Annual Plant Sale. NOTE CHANGE OF DATE. We will have a list of items
for sale in the May 1 Briefs. This change was made as the Museum no longer has
water due to the damage from the Town Garage fire and eventual demolition.
Consequently, it’s difficult to do the plant sale close to July 4 as it’s a
challenge in keeping plants hydrated when it’s hotter.
May 26 (Sunday): The Museum season begins.
Hours are 2-4 pm, every Sunday Memorial Day through Columbus weekend. The
Museum can be opened at other times by request at the numbers below.
HOW YOU CAN HELP
Anyone who would like to volunteer to paint at the Museum
and/or the Stone Church, please contact CHS at the numbers below.
If you have questions or wish to volunteer with CHS, please
call 802-226-7807, e-mail margocaulfield@icloud.com
After reading under Cavendish Teachers, #3 interestingly enough, this is my grandmother, Bessie May Morse. There is some misinformation stated that I wish to correct. Again, her name is Bessie May Morse but she was born in 1895 on September 12th in Cavendish. She did, in fact, retire after 46 years of teaching with most of those years at Proctorsville School. My grandmother did lead the toy band of which many of her students fondly remember her by. I have newspaper articles and pictures (thanks to many of her former students) to back up this information. Sincerely, Karen Morse Potts Henley, granddaughter
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