President's Message
Greetings Members and Friends,
We welcome the June 21st Solstice and the beginning of summer after a very busy spring 2018! Again this year, we have teamed up with Bonny Eagle Middle School teacher, Kristin Klin, 6th grade Cunningham Clan Leader AND this year’s Educate Maine’s York County Teacher of the Year, to work with students on their local history projects. Students were charged with making a children’s book on a local history topic. Quite a number of students have made email inquiries with us and come to do research at our Buxton-Hollis Historical Society research library. One parent arrived with a car load of students, certainly keeping our volunteers hopping while assisting students, all searching for information on different topics! It has been a great way to introduce students to the resources of their historical society while making history come alive, and to encourage them to be good citizens by helping them feel connected to their communities. When complete, their books will be posted on our historical society web site.
We welcome the June 21st Solstice and the beginning of summer after a very busy spring 2018! Again this year, we have teamed up with Bonny Eagle Middle School teacher, Kristin Klin, 6th grade Cunningham Clan Leader AND this year’s Educate Maine’s York County Teacher of the Year, to work with students on their local history projects. Students were charged with making a children’s book on a local history topic. Quite a number of students have made email inquiries with us and come to do research at our Buxton-Hollis Historical Society research library. One parent arrived with a car load of students, certainly keeping our volunteers hopping while assisting students, all searching for information on different topics! It has been a great way to introduce students to the resources of their historical society while making history come alive, and to encourage them to be good citizens by helping them feel connected to their communities. When complete, their books will be posted on our historical society web site.
We also received a letter of inquiry and visit from Mia Kovacs, a Bonny Eagle freshman, who, in her Earth & Space Science class, is learning about different types of energy and how it has impacted surrounding areas and communities. Brent Hill, one of our volunteers (and a recent C.M.P. retiree), helped Mia locate information on her chosen topic, Skelton Dam, which was opened in 1948 and caused Saco River gorges to flood, among other things.
We celebrate our young local historians and their teachers, who have the wisdom & insight to assign such thoughtful and multifaceted projects!
We celebrate our young local historians and their teachers, who have the wisdom & insight to assign such thoughtful and multifaceted projects!
We also are grateful to the All That Dance Studio Competitive Dance Team and their Director, Darcy Leavitt, for their participation in Maypole dancing for the third consecutive year at our BHHS Victorian White Party! Many thanks to BHHS members for making colorful floral crown wreaths for dancers to wear! What a wonderful way to welcome spring and commemorate renown historical figure, Kate Douglas Wiggin’s “white parties” held at Quillcote in Hollis. (The event took its name from the white clothing worn by women in and around 1900.) We appreciate, as well, the lovely renditions sung by the Bonny Eagle Select Chorus led by Director Alan Thomas. A big THANK YOU, as well, to Carla Turner for making the south lawn, as well as the private Kate Douglas Wiggin library, of this historic site open to the public. Extra benefits this year once again included visits to (and feathers from) three rather shy resident peacocks!
Happy summer to you all,
Jan Hill, President
Happy summer to you all,
Jan Hill, President