President's Message
Dear Members and Friends,
GRATEFUL THANKS to your dedicated BHHS Board members for pitching in to assist this spring and summer to publish our summer newsletter and do all the work of regular operations while your president was under the weather! We are all very fortunate to work with such committed and caring volunteers and friends.
While it has been a busy and eventful summer, we dealt with the high and potentially dangerous temperatures of July by postponing our planned July 20th stroll in Hollis’s Goggins Woods and Annual BBQ in the Burt and Barb Pease Depot Street Barn to a safer, more temperate and enjoyable Saturday, September 7. We hope you will join us, whether for the stroll or the BBQ or both!
PLEASE NOTE also that our previously scheduled BHHS sponsored August 10th Tour of Buxton’s Royal Brewster Mansion was postponed due to unforeseen circumstances. We hope that you will join us another year for this unique and wonderful event! In the meantime, we participated in the Buxton parade that day (photos below), and hope you were able to visit the BHHS sponsored Artisan tables on the Helen Bruce Park in Buxton during DorcasFest, AND our BHHS table at Pirate Fest in Hollis that day as well!
You may be interested in checking the August 2019 edition of the Memories of Maine Magazine for the article on well known and respected early local artist, Gibeon Bradbury. Your historical society contributed information and photos.
We are progressing on our image scanning project being led by Brent Hill. To date, we have 643 images scanned and cataloged and we are hoping for donations or loans of others to add to our collection. Please consider what historic photos YOU might have and be willing to donate or loan to us for scanning.
You may have heard on the news that the Maine Bi-Centennial Celebration has already begun with four state events. FYI, your BHHS Librarian, Nancy Peirce, has researched the election and found Buxton voted in favor 365 to 11 and Hollis voted in favor 174 to 1. The statewide vote was 17,091 to 7,132. The ballots were not secret ballots. Rural community members who depended on their neighbors more than government sought consensus in their public decisions.
We look forward to seeing you at our fall programming, including: a tour with Matt Albrecht, owner and founder of River Cooperage and Millwork of Buxton in September; a program by Mark Allen Leslie, on his novel “True North: Tice’s Story”, a Publishers Weekly Featured Book on the Underground Railroad in October; and our Annual Meeting Potluck with speaker Robert (Butch) Yarumian III discussing his and Ed Churchhill’s new book on ownership of beaches in southern Maine in November. (See more details in the Upcoming Events 2019 section of this newsletter.)
Best Wishes to you all for a Happy Leaf Peeping Season!
Jan Hill, President
GRATEFUL THANKS to your dedicated BHHS Board members for pitching in to assist this spring and summer to publish our summer newsletter and do all the work of regular operations while your president was under the weather! We are all very fortunate to work with such committed and caring volunteers and friends.
While it has been a busy and eventful summer, we dealt with the high and potentially dangerous temperatures of July by postponing our planned July 20th stroll in Hollis’s Goggins Woods and Annual BBQ in the Burt and Barb Pease Depot Street Barn to a safer, more temperate and enjoyable Saturday, September 7. We hope you will join us, whether for the stroll or the BBQ or both!
PLEASE NOTE also that our previously scheduled BHHS sponsored August 10th Tour of Buxton’s Royal Brewster Mansion was postponed due to unforeseen circumstances. We hope that you will join us another year for this unique and wonderful event! In the meantime, we participated in the Buxton parade that day (photos below), and hope you were able to visit the BHHS sponsored Artisan tables on the Helen Bruce Park in Buxton during DorcasFest, AND our BHHS table at Pirate Fest in Hollis that day as well!
You may be interested in checking the August 2019 edition of the Memories of Maine Magazine for the article on well known and respected early local artist, Gibeon Bradbury. Your historical society contributed information and photos.
We are progressing on our image scanning project being led by Brent Hill. To date, we have 643 images scanned and cataloged and we are hoping for donations or loans of others to add to our collection. Please consider what historic photos YOU might have and be willing to donate or loan to us for scanning.
You may have heard on the news that the Maine Bi-Centennial Celebration has already begun with four state events. FYI, your BHHS Librarian, Nancy Peirce, has researched the election and found Buxton voted in favor 365 to 11 and Hollis voted in favor 174 to 1. The statewide vote was 17,091 to 7,132. The ballots were not secret ballots. Rural community members who depended on their neighbors more than government sought consensus in their public decisions.
We look forward to seeing you at our fall programming, including: a tour with Matt Albrecht, owner and founder of River Cooperage and Millwork of Buxton in September; a program by Mark Allen Leslie, on his novel “True North: Tice’s Story”, a Publishers Weekly Featured Book on the Underground Railroad in October; and our Annual Meeting Potluck with speaker Robert (Butch) Yarumian III discussing his and Ed Churchhill’s new book on ownership of beaches in southern Maine in November. (See more details in the Upcoming Events 2019 section of this newsletter.)
Best Wishes to you all for a Happy Leaf Peeping Season!
Jan Hill, President