Warwick Historical Society Minutes June 15, 2011

The evening began with a short film made by Dr. James Kitchen, Mel's
father, about the ice-cutting industry in the Poconos in Pennsylvania.. 
The film included a good amount of interesting footage from the late
1920's and early 1930's, with informative narration by Dr. Kitchen.
Following the film showing, Larry Carey and others in the audience
related accounts of similar ice-cutting procedures here in Warwick. Many
thanks to Mel,  and to Nadia Marti for her technical assistance.

The WHS quarterly business meeting followed, and was called to order at
7:40 p.m.

Present: Arline Lincoln, Case Vanderstelt, Rod Whipple, Helen Whipple,
Bev Shepardson, Dave Shepardaon, Calvin Fellows, Freddie Fellows, Nadia
Marti, Kady Woods, Charlie Brown, Clare Green, Patty Ernest, Ann Miner,
Barbara Walker, Martha Morse, Ed Lemon, Martha Kitchen, Larry Carey

Secretary's report was approved as read.

Treasurer's report: CD $10,056.49; Savings $4,045.63; Checking
$1,368.49; TOTAL $15,470.31

Report approved as read.

New Business

Changes to the WHS By-Laws were discussed, and will be voted on at the
September meeting.

Brian Miner has cut down the privet bush in front of the WHS building.
Some discussion followed on the advisability of taking it out
altogether. No consensus was reached.

A calendar was passed around for members to sign up to open the museum
on Sundays in July and August from 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.  In addition, three
2-hour slots were filled for Old Home Day, Sat. August 27.

Larry asked for help in selling WHS items at  the Town Tag Sale, Old
Home Days and the Holiday Crafts Fair: items include napkins, t-shirts,
maps, and note cards. Possibilities for note cards include Ralph
Witherells's paintings (with permission from his family), and the scene
of the WHS building and town hall painted by Deb Paulson. (see item #4
below) A motion was made and seconded to purchase 200 cards with Deb
Paulson's painting for $80, to be sold for $1.00 each. . Larry Carey
asked for ideas for presentations at WHS meetings. It was decided that
ideas should be given to program committee chair Barbara Walker, and Ed
Lemon will post finalized programs on the Warwick web-site.

Larry formally thanked Ed Lemon for his leadership on the ongoing work
of the archival committee. He stressed the need of all members to
support Ed's efforts on the very successful steamkite.com website.

Kady Woods reported on her acceptance into a 2-week summer program on
"Exploring New England" sponsored by Smith College. Congratulations to
Kady, and we look forward to hearing about her experiences at the
September meeting.

In 2013 Warwick will celebrate its 250th anniversary. The WHS will be
working on ideas for special exhibits, and hopes to have the booklet on
its collection by then.

Curator's Report - Ed Lemon

Ed has researched web-sites for purchasing cotton gloves for handling
antiquities. He has found availability of nylon gloves in medium size at
$20 for a package of 12. Nadia will ask her professor if nylon is OK.

Now that the warmer weather is here, work has resumed at the WHS museum
on Mondays from 1:00-3:00. The building has been cleaned and work has
begun on cataloguing the collections and the photo albums. Help is
needed in identifying individuals in old photos.

The WHS website is being recognized for its excellence by interested
parties near and far.

The meeting was adjourned at 8:40 p.m., followed by refreshments.  Next
meeting is Sept. 21, 2011

Respectfully submitted

Martha Morse, secretary