Historical Commission
Riverside Municipal Building
A meeting of the Historical Commission
AGENDA
Gill Historical Commission
Tuesday, November 19, 2024, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Riverside Municipal Building
Call to order: _______ Notes: Meetings are being recorded, in part to help clarify minutes.
1. Approve minutes from October 15th meeting
2. Treasurer’s Report and Business
Budget Account as of 11/19/24: Donation Account as of 11/19/24:
3. Old and continuing business
A. RMB basement inventory: disposition of large models of church and town hall (vote)
B. Update on Riverview St. parking and upkeep on Anchorage and abutment (Bob)
C. Recruiting new members: newsletter copy? Recruiting leaflet? Museum visit? (discussion)
D. Update: Digitizing Gill ledgers
E. Annual reports (fiscal year): Which have been done? Which are in the wings? Who might write the 2024 report?
F. GHC business cards: design and costs
G. Using the Four Winds sign structure with GHC/RMB overlays: content? process?
4. New business:
A. Battlefield Grant updates, nearing the end of 10 years of research:
1. In the works: Information panels for educating, commemorating, building community
(Example: draft from Rich Holschuh, Abenaki representative)
2. “The True Natives of Cape Cod Massachusetts and Their Food Ways”, Nov. 16, 1:00 p.m. at the Discovery Center, a presentation from a cookbook by Angela C. Marcellino, a member of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe. (See Tinky Weisblat’s piece in 11/12 Recorder.)
B. GHC’s museum collection: what to display, what to store, how to label (discussion)
C. Acquisitions for the collection (discussion and vote)
D. December meeting: change of date?
5. Other topics not listed at time of posting
Adjournment:
Next meeting: Tuesday, December 17, 2024, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m., RMB