...HOLDERNESS250:
Sixteen in attendance. Highlights below.
Update of events schedule. Recommended that the vintage boat parade follow the street parade on Saturday instead of Sunday with a public viewing to follow. [Pete Francesco]
Finances: just short of $200 in special Historical Society account. More contributions need to be solicited [P.O. Box 319, 03245]
Website: http://Holderness250.org is up and running with 3 possible candidates being displayed. We must choose one before Dec. 16. Consensus was to go with format of #2 but bringing the best of the other two sites. Larry Spencer to work with Steve Solberg on this. Holderness School will carry the monthly website costs.
Fifes and Drums of the Mattatuck Band of Waterbury, CT., the nation's oldest continually performing band. Logistics involve housing 40-50 band members and seconds. They performed for the Holderness Bicentennial staying at J.B. Williams' on Kusumpe Point. Would Alex Ray feed?
After some amateur detective work the original Holderness Grant and Charter from King George III has been located. UNH will attempt to photocopy it digitally (clearer than in the past) and might even loan it to us if its security can be guaranteed. It is very fragile!
Suggested that we approach Scott and Rick King for a demo of early settler stone wall building. Abenaki Nations chief asked if they want to participate.
David Starbuck at PSU is an expert on Rogers' Rangers. May have some bio on the town's early settlers, 12 of whom were RRs.
Susan Webster is now chair of Trinity Cemetery trustees where Samual Livermore is buried. There is a desire to use the chapel there for a re-enactment of early English church service. Possibly Bishop Robinson or (ret.) Bishop Doug Theuner, but leaving in place Sid Lovett's Community Church service possibly following the pancake breakfast instead of before.
Should there be an observance of Holderness residents who have served in the nation's wars, say during the street parade?
The same for sporting events on the various fields at Holderness School?
Items to consider in asking the town meeting for an appropriation:
printing $400 - banner 300 - framing of Charter copy and watercolor 300 - advertising 75- Re-enactment materials 350 - Sound system 400 - Mass mailing 350 - What else?
Matching private contributions as well to offset.
Tink Taylor
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