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July Meeting
Dear neighbors,
So much is going on in town right
now -- the Hope Triathlon
at 8 AM Saturday, HOPE4JAZZ at 4 PM Saturday (with clinic at 2), ....
And you probably read in Francina's column or elsewhere in the
newspapers that Roberta Holbrook Best would speak at Hope
Historical's meeting Tuesday on how she got the spectacular
Victorian art object she gave us and what she knows about it.
That program has been changed because
Mrs. Best won't be able
to make it. We hope she will be able to later.
Instead, we have arranged with
Penobscot Marine Museum to
project the 36 slides of old Hope they have in their Eastern
Illustrating & Publishing Company collection.
Most of you missed seeing some
of these at our May meeting.
Collectively, we will make our best guesses of their dates (somewhere
between 1909 & 1956), who the people and what the buildings are.
Eastern's photographer/salesmen didn't record dates and didn't
always get the captions right. One labelled Abner Dunton next to his
house shows someone who doesn't look like Abner next to John & Rachel
Power's.
So please come Tuesday at 7 PM.
at the Hope Historical Home
(Dave & Katherine Brown's). See the old photos of South Hope and
Hope Corner villages and help narrow down their dates and who & what
they show. You can see our Victorian art treasure too, but we will
have to speculate on the circumstances of its creation. Did Hope's
ladies, during the Civil War, intricately craft this remarkable work
of art out of their own hair as a memorial to the Hope soldiers who
didn't come back?
Bill Jones, Secretary
HHS Officers
President: Donovan Bowley
Vice President: Bob Appleby
Secretary: Bill Jones
Treasurer: Faith Hart
COMMITTEES
NOMINATING Herb Hart, Hope Chase, Bill Jones
PUBLICITY Hope Chase
PROGRAM Ron Smith, Bill Jones, Ann Leadbetter
HOSPITALITY & FOOD SALES Gwen Brodis, Ann Leadbetter
MEMORY GARDEN & GROUNDS Herb Hart, Barbara Carver
BUILDING Richard Brodis, Obed Hart, Herb Hart, Ron Smith
CARDS Barbara Ludwig
FINANCE-FUND RAISING Faith Hart, Florance Merrifield
WEBSITE Bob Appleby, Ron Smith, Gwen Brodis
ARCHIVISTS Faith Hart, Gwen Brodis
GENEALOGIST Florance Merrifield
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