We discussed our options for a new Humanities Council
Program and decided on having the rural N.H. comic and author, Rebecca
Rule return. (She spoke here to an enthusiastic audience in 2002.) She
will speak at Marlow in November of this year.
Maria Baril is about to launch our yearly membership
drive, and we agreed upon wording for the letter to prospective members,
new and old.
We reviewed plans for our February sponsored program,
"The Devil's Disciple," by George Bernard Shaw, to be
performed by The Hour Glass Readers. This is their Marlow debut.
We reviewed our program plans for the coming year. We
decided that, since our March "Meet the Candidates" was so
poorly attended last year, we would not do it this year. Our April
public meeting will be "Digging into N.H. History". (See
above.) For our General Meeting in May, we will hold another oral
history session in which we will capture history 'live by recording the
stories and comments of the participants. The topic will be Marlow in
the 1960's, "The Age of Aquarius". By June we will be gearing
up for our major fundraiser, the summer Monadnock Music Dinner, and we
will also be responsible for the Monadnock Music Concert itself as we
were last year. The Harvest Fest will be the first weekend in October,
and we expect to participate in our usual ways. October will bring our
General Meeting with the election of officers. In November we will be
treated to Rebecca Rule. (See above.) In December we will sponsor the
Marlow Christmas program complete with at least one original humorous
skit as well as readings and music by local talent.
We voted to spend $1,500.00 to hire Edward White to
repair all the windows and sashes at Murray Hall (the Grange).
The Town Budget hearing includes money for a back door
for the upstairs of Jones Hall. We are gratified to learn of this as it
is a fire exit which sometimes refuses to open, and it has a crack which
leaks cold air into the building all winter. We support this budget
item.
We received a letter of resignation from our
President, Mary Blank. We regret that Mary is unable to continue to
serve. She has done an excellent job in this demanding position. We
tabled the resignation.
We agreed that we need to put it on the MHS Forum and
elsewhere that we need people to step up and help us. Our Director,
Candy Wiggum, will be leaving before the term for that position has
expired, and she took the position temporarily with that understanding.
Another Director, Adam Plumb, will be off to college soon. Loisanne
agreed to put out the word and draft a letter for the Marlow Gazette.
Jeannie Merwin had asked that it be brought before the
MHS Board that our Marlow stone face beside Forest Road near the Marlow
Profile is in danger of being destroyed by the State Highway Dept. as
the other profile nearby was smashed by them last year as a precaution
for the snowplows. Loisanne reviewed her correspondence with the State
Highway Dept. on this issue. The consensus of the Board is that Jeannie
should bring this up with the Conservation Commission.
Re our work with the Conservation Commission: Adam
Plumb has documented the old cellar holes on Huntley Mountain and
surrounding roads, and we should be sure that this information goes to
the Conservation Commission for Marlow's Inventory of Natural and
Historical Resources.