Please also check the
Cavendish VT Facebook page for photo albums of various Cavendish Historical Society (CHS) activities.
UPCOMING EVENTS
July 14 (Sunday): In response to Vermont
banning single use plastics, CHS will offer a Replacing
Plastic Workshop, 2 pm at the Museum in Cavendish. Participants will learn how
to make a no sew tote from an old T shirt, a “pooper scooper,” and how to fold
a beach towel so it can be a carrying case as well as a pillow. Please bring an
old t shirt. This is a free hands on workshop open to the public. If this seems like an odd workshop for a historical
society to offer, keep in mind that we are good repositories of how people once
lived. Sometimes we need to draw on that knowledge to help people adjust to
changes that are more reflective of past eras.
July 27 (Saturday): 9th Annual
Cavendish Town Wide Tag Sale. The CHS booth will be in the gazebo on the
Proctorsville Green.
September 8 (Sunday): Annual Phineas Gage Walk
& Talk. The talk portion begins at 2 pm. We will be walking out to the site
of the accident, which is approximately ¾ of a mile from the Museum.
Comfortable shoes are recommended.
October 13 (Sunday): In honor of Indigenous
Peoples Day, CHS will present a talk on the First Peoples of the Okemo Valley,
2 pm at the Museum.
WHAT WE’VE BEEN DOING
ARCHEOLOGY: We had planned on taking
the 5th and 6th graders out to the dig, but the never
ending rain in April and May caused serious flooding so the trip will be
rescheduled for the fall. In the mean, we are thrilled that Young Historian
Emery Benoit, she has been with us since the program began in 2010, will be
among the first students this fall at Castleton University’s new archeology
program under Dr. Matt Moriarity, of SCHEP (Southern Champlain Historical Ecology
Project) , which we’ve been
involved with for the last four years.
BUILDINGS: We’re waiting for Bruce
McEnaney to return from England to start on the steps of the Museum. Bob Naess
and Dave Stern continue to work between the rain drops in completing the front door
project.
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| Cleaning gravestones |
CARMINE GUICA YOUNG HISTORIANS: Yes the school year is
over, but we’re hard at work planning for the 2019/2020. Before we launch into
plans, we want to thank our 5th and 6th graders for their
hard work in cleaning the grave stones in the Cavendish Cemetery. A week later
these two grades learned a great deal at the American Precision Museum in
Windsor and from St. Gaudens, just across the river from the Museum. Thank you to our volunteers Bobby Glidden, Bob Naess and Pang Ting.
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| 5th & 6th grade at St. Gaudens |
To help
our local teachers, as well as other schools who have been in contact, we have
set up a web page “Resource for Teachers: Trip Opportunities.” This site lists places
where students can learn more about their town, state and country. These are
catalogued by travel time from Cavendish Town Elementary School (CTES) as well
as by state. This list will be continually updated with new resources as well
as notes about experiences.
New for
the upcoming school year is Carmine Guica
Young Historians: Preserving and Serving Cavendish VT. This program is for
students at CTES. They serve each other, their families, community, state and
country. In so doing, they learn basic civics, how their community functions
and what type of citizens we want them to become. The teachers have been very
helpful in identifying various projects that students can do. More information
about this program will be provided in September.
A very special thank you to Ernestine van Schaik whose
support to the continuation of this program. While we couldn’t do this without
her financial help, we also want to recognize her creativity and ideas
about programs and activities to try. As a former teacher, she is a wealth of
information.
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
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