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V. : pg \_"‘*‘._ £4 R»; Hts?‘ Volume 9 Issue 4 Dec/Jan 2006 President’s Report We apologize to anyone who didn’t get the interim newsletter in a timely fashion. The newsletter was sent out well before December 1, but due to extremely heavy mail volume at that time the Post Office didn’t deliver all of them for nearly two weeks. As I stated in the interim newsletter, I have been thinking about a way to contact the membership on a more frequent basis and suggested to the Board of Trustees we establish an e-mail system to solve the problem. Here is how it will work. If you send an e-mail message to our website, we will save your address. Please title your message as e-mail newsletter request. Once we have a good number of addresses we will send frequent updates and other information relating to the Scituate Historical Society. The e- mail address is: [email protected]. Already we have received many requests for this service \_,/and I hope to have our this system up and running later this winter. January Dinner Meeting The January dinner meeting will be held at the Harbor Methodist Church on January 21 at 6:30 p.m. The speaker will be Stephen Puleo, author of Dark Tide. Dark Tide is the story of the great Boston molasses ood of 1919. This book has received excellent reviews from many reviewers including The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, and the Associated Press. I just finished reading the book-it is one of those books you can’t put down. We have also made arrangements with Front Street Book Shop to have a book signing after the program. They will have some books available, but I would suggest you buy the book in advance from Front Street Book shop to guarantee you have a copy. Reservations are selling fast now so I suggest you make yours very soon to avoid disappointment. I March Dinner Meeting At Barker Tavern Featuring Etrusco ***Remembering Etrusco 50 Years Later*** Tickets for the March 10 dinner meeting titled Remembering Etrusco Fifty Years Later are now available at the Little Red Schoolhouse and the Front Street Book Shop. The dinner meeting will take place at the Barker Tavern and are $50 per person. The meal choice is Scrod Francaise, Charbroiled Prime Rump Steak, or Statler Breast of Chicken. \_/ The dinner meeting will commemorate the 50"‘ anniversary of the grounding of Etrusco and will also be a community event to recognize the excellent work done by the Etrusco Associates. There will be a power point program that will provide a history of the ship with never before seen images from WW II through the Scituate Historical Society Page 1 DeclJan 2006 D .,,;.~;’:a..-U‘.v‘. 1._,au~',_ _ ~/\‘1_5... v.-‘0"\:;: 5,!~".‘.'r" <2. ;w_.-. 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I would suggest you purchase your tickets very soon to avoid disappointment. 2006 Calendars Available Now Thanks to a tremendous effort by Marshall Litchfield, our 2006 calendar is now available for purchase. They are $12.00 and are fantastic! Everyone that has seen this calendar agrees it is our best yet. The photographs are simply stunning. They are available at the Little Red Schoolhouse. The calendars are a major fundraising effort so buy several! Last Chance Sale at the Maritime Museum a Big Success and Kingjewelers Donation to the Museum Our annual sale at the Maritime & Irish Mossing Museum was a big success with sales in excess of $1,100. I want to thank all those that stopped by and supported this sale. As mentioned in the interim newsletter, King Jewelers had a special exhibit and sale of Chelsea Clocks last month. King Jewelers has donated $500 to our maritime museum from the proceeds of their special sale. On Going Society Preservation Efforts LHWSOII TOWER It will be reshingled next spring! Thanks to the efforts of Paul Miles, this restoration effort v/ is now a go. As you may recall, theshingling estimates last summer came in much higher than anticipated due mostly to the short time between a start date and required completion by Fall 2005. It was decided to re-bid the project this fall to allow contractors more time complete the job and the cost estimates did in fact reect a lower cost. In December the Board of Selectmen approved the funding from the MBTA Historic Preservation Mitigation Fund. We expect the reshingling to begin in late spring 2006 and to take about sixteen weeks to complete. This fall we put together a comprehensive funding request to the Scituate Community Preservation Committee for work on four historic buildings in Scituate as outlined below. GAR Hall: Last summer the Society decided it was time to request funds from the Community Preservation Committee to complete the GAR Hall. The Society purchased this historic building from the Town of Scituate in 1996 and we have done a great deal of work on the building since that time. However, we recognized that the completion cost which exceeded $100,000 was out of reach. Paul Miles, Peter Leavitt, and I worked with our contractor, Dana Green of Yankee Wood Products, to establish estimates of all work still needed to be done. The total cost was $138,000. Cudworth House: Much work has been done to preserve this historic house over the last few years, but the » most important issue of preservation still needed to be addressed-climate control. Paul Miles obtained estimates to install a heating and air conditioning system to deal with this issue. The total cost of this project is $26500. Massachusetts Humane Society Boathouse at the former Young’s Boatyard: As reported in a previous newsletter, the Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts donated funds to put on a new roof last % Scituate Historical Society Page 2 DeclJan 2006 summer. They were anxious to assist with this work because very few of these boathouses still exist. However, the sills are in poor condition, the building must be raised a couple of feet off the ground, and the entire building must be reshingled. Eventually we envision the Scituate Recreation Program using this facility for sailing '~_ \/ classes. The total estimated cost of the work is $45,000. ~ Moss Storage Shed at the former Young’s Boatyard: This is a small building that was used for many years to store dried moss is adjacent to the Mass. Humane building at the boatyard. To my knowledge it is the only moss shed in existence. It is particularly unique because many of the mosser’s names are written on the inside walls. The estimate to stabilize and repair the shed is $25,000. Now that you have read what the urgent needs are, you want to know what action the Community Preservation Committee took! Here’s the answer. The committee recently voted to spread out the work on the Mass. Humane Boathouse over two years as we suggested, to vote all the funds for the Moss Shed and the Cudworth House and nearly all the funds for the GAR Hall. I am very appreciative of the work done by Peter Leavitt who is our liaison to the Community Preservation committee for his efforts in making sure the committee understood the historical significance of these buildings. The next step in the process is for the CPC to obtain approval from the Board of Selectmen and the Advisory Board. From there action goes to Town Meeting next March. I am quite confident all of this will happen! Dave Ball WHAT’S IN A MARITIME NAME ? During one of the Lawson Tower Open House days this summer I had drawn the bell deck duty to talk \7about the bells and answer questions, including the sights seen from the windows.