We'll call this being to order at 6:31 on the 19th of November 2025. President Craig Dairy. >> Okay. All right. So, um, first item on the agenda was the, uh,
the minutes there, October 9th minutes. They did send out some adjustments to those minutes. >> I got those in close. >> Okay. >> And do we have any other comments on the minutes from October 9th?
>> Well, uh, did we, um, change for number eight? Uh, third line down book launch November 29th. >> Yes, I've got that. That was corrected. >> December 3rd, >> right? >> Oh, sorry. Wait, number eight. Uh, book launch December 3rd at the Font School,
>> right? It has to be November 29th. >> Oh, it was I thought I had changed that when we were there. >> It's a Saturday the 29th >> and uh and we're hoping many people will come. >> And the price will be >> and the price uh which is down near the
bottom there, it says price will be $35. We we received a grant from the state and we're happy to say that we can um have a price that we think everybody will be afford. >> Great. Good news. >> Yeah, it is.
>> Any other changes people? >> That's all I saw. >> Okay. And the motion to pass minutes as amend to pass the um October 9th minutes.
>> All right. >> Okay. Unanimous vote. >> All right. Then um the bills the tree company uh bill for Hansen tree. It was paid the check went out end of October.
So, they should be happy. I saw an ad on some Facebook thing or something where you know how the stump jumpers they have now with a saw as they go around and you have on a trailer or whatever. This one here was like a
augur that starts right down, pushes down hydraulically and just makes chips like this all the way straight down, goes down like 3 feet or something. Those are the kind of things that we need over there. Right now, we're not planning to do any. Um, the Evergreen Cemetery was planning
to have some trees down still. Are they is that still effective? >> Yes, they are. They're taking them down >> with this company. >> I, you know, I don't know with the company. I was supposed to go to a meeting last night, but my god, I'm meeting I'm meeting out from things, you
know. So, uh, I I um hung around and and uh relaxed for a while. So, I don't know. They but they do have they've had uh uh people down there also. I I haven't walked through the cemetery in a couple of months. So really so I haven't seen what's going on. >> They were going to do some stump
jumping. Yes. >> Oh, they are doing the grinding. >> No, you told me that they were going to do some. >> Yes, that is right. Um the trees that were taken down near the prince the chapel. Okay. uh there were two or three
very large uh stumps down there and they wanted toh to grind those down. So, as far as the other trees go that they're taking down in the cemetery, um I haven't heard whether they're um going to grind those stumps or not. >> Right.
>> I I brought it last week and then forgot to bring it this week, but you know, I mentioned I've used some powder. So you can you can drill a hole in the stump, pour it in, >> you add a little bit of water and you let it sit there and it it prevent it kills the stump and it prevents it from sprouting.
>> Um doesn't remove the stump but you know will eventually wear away. >> Uh there's that. And when I was looking online to see could we get you know I just have a small jug of it if we could get it in larger volume. >> Also seems to be a thing. I've never tried it, but you can get copper nails
and nail those into the stump and what I read seemed to indicate it's it works pretty effectively. You leave them in there for like a month and the >> copper prevents water absorption and it kills the stump. >> Yeah. >> A little bit more environmentally friendly. I don't I might buy some and try it on a stump at my house and see if
it works. But so there might be some options that you know again it won't remove the stumps but it'll prevent them from Can you some stuff out for us? Because um we do have a thousand bucks in the budget. >> Yeah, >> we can get some of that to go. >> Approximately how many stumps are we
talking about? >> Probably 40 good size. A lot of a lot of And they're pine. >> And um I I noticed a st a tree that was taken down when Jack Bates uh lived at the uh old townhouse. >> And that must have been about 15 years
ago or 10 years ago that he had that down. And if you look at that stump, it's it's it's decaying. I mean they they go they go and um so um it may take 20 years or so but they're going to >> take a while and the the key thing is by
treating it is to yeah prevent it from >> resp sprouting right that's the important thing and because then we have to go around and chop those things >> again you know >> all right so next week we'll know next month we'll know about yeah buying some of that stuff the um the other thing was
that the amount we got from the CPA was 65,000 for that Um, so we have some surf 15,000 surplus right now. And one of the things that I had asked them for an estimate on was the uh the wiring or the
staying of the lynen tree there right by the townhouse. Now it's got the V. >> Y >> and they can run cables between three like two or three cables across from one to one so the thing won't split. Mhm. >> And so that's something that going to
try to get them to get a cost on and we may go ahead and um it comes under the project that was part of the project but it just wasn't included in their first bid there. You know, I've noticed um I was actually in
there or I was in No, I wasn't in the I was I was in the green. Uh I walked up into the green. I looked over to where that tree is that that has that that Y shape and some large limbs have come down and I I in between I don't know if you noticed but it was in between
gravestones I don't think anything >> everything that that miracle >> and these are big where they come from the tree I know but well way up you know I would think too now that wasn't cut so it wasn't from their work >> now that that's all opened up it might just be the wind
>> yes more >> um It's speaking I don't know if this is the right time to bring it up or not but do we have a plan to clean that cemetery or the town or maybe get a cleanup day and have the town pick up piles um because it there is quite a mess in
there that will need to be cleaned up. >> Yeah. Yeah. I think what I think it's the best way to go about that be nice to have like cordon off areas and have like okay this area here we're going to tackle today and >> have the DPW pick up the the waste from
it. But who's gonna do it? I mean, >> I don't like mind doing some volunteer work, but I don't think we should open it up to the public to volunteer. >> No, >> just throw a damage. >> Well, this is this is like sticks and raking and stuff like that, >> you know. But I mean, if we get this What about the scouts going different if
we were there with them? >> That's a possibility because they they've been in there before. They know to be >> delicate in certain areas. So, yeah, I can uh speak with them and see if we can get the cleanup day on. One of them might have a project >> which um would they be cover all the
troops on it or >> um there's uh there's only >> like three troops out there. >> No, there two of them left. So there's only one left. There's only one left. Yep. >> Okay. So if you want to talk to him about it then Yeah.
>> I'll talk to uh the supervisor about the the you know the pickup. I'm sure they'll pick stuff up if we pile it up. >> Yeah. I don't know if they have the manpower to do the cleaning, but I think they'll pick the stuff up if we can get piles. >> Is it too much to try to get it in in
December after Thanks? >> I think we can do some. I don't know if we'll get the old thing done, but I think we can get some. Yeah, >> Saturdays, Sunday afternoon, >> um, do you want me to speak on the other stuff right now from the stones and stuff or do you want to move the line? Um,
>> I got we got down here, so let's we'll go to that. Probably almost there anyways. Um, okay. So, the trees done, the uh CPA applications. We um
I guess we we hit on this prior meeting too with uh Linda about the um CPA committee looking at our three projects. We submitted uh requests for money for the uh stone repair like 50 stones
repairing and the fence the iron fence out on Main Street by the church and also for signage for the the cemetery. Um and they say well the signage isn't really acceptable as a project by itself
and the fence they're really concerned it may not be historic enough or something by itself either. But um the stones, they seem to be very amanable about stone funding uh repair for the stones. But they also said that um if we
combine them in a in like a package and that we show that this is part of the project for the master plan and we're following through and the fence certainly could be part of that and maybe even the signage too,
although signage we may not do. it would be great to have this year because you know with the tsentennial coming up. So with that, we do have a bunch of stuff to do to submit the report by um like the end of the first week in December um
with those three things to show where it fits in with the master plan, how we're following through, you know, making it look like it's going to be a multi-year plan or if we were going to do everything in the master plan. >> Yes. But um there's a lot of stuff in
there that needs a lot of work with the church as far as those walkways going around it, you know, and use the entryway on the side there. But the fences, um it's tough. It's like pulling teeth trying to get someone to get an estimate for doing that work. There's
only a few people that do it. And um I've talked to three of them. One one is the one that we have uh an estimate on the jobs. It's pretty high price. Um the other two I've been trying to get back
in contact with, they dropped out communications. I haven't heard back from them lately. So, um but the fence is, you know, it's it's we the guy that was there, he was telling us he thought it was about mid 1800s for the the iron
fence out. >> Did you Did you get those pictures I sent you? >> Um no, I don't think so. >> Well, uh I'll be very brief. Um, imagine imagine this is the sidewalk here. Well, right now our main uh and the main street's over here. Okay. The church is
back a little bit, say up here, and the fence kind of goes over there like that, not near the sidewalk. Well, um, around say 1900 or so, that fence was down here, right along the sidewalk, and it
went all the way from the Adams House all the way to Green Street. Okay. From the pictures, you can see it. And I I I magnified them for you also. And there must have been a gate in front of the church that you would open. Uh but maybe
not, you know, maybe, you know, from the sidewalk. Maybe it was open. I really can't quite see and and where the stairs are, whether the gate is there, but I do know the gate. Well, what happened was the gate must have started falling apart. So what they did was they they took the best part of it and they moved
it up here and and then and then here like that they put in a modern like modern uh uh steel uh rod iron or whatever which is right now it goes over to main uh green street kind of like thin little right over here. They just
took a little piece of it by the church and put it put it over there and that was it. and everything else must have been tossed out and been falling apart ages ago. Otherwise, why would they take down a perfectly good steel fence that ran right along right along the side? >> Why would they move it back?
>> Plus, remember that corner post >> on the right side there. >> That corner post that of the fence. Now, there's a hole there that shows that it goes out 90 degrees to the sidewalk. >> It It did, >> but that couldn't do it if it was out in the front of the street. >> Well, T, you can you can look at the pictures.
>> Yeah. I don't remember seeing it. When did you send those? >> No, I sent them right after our last meeting. I think it was I think it was uh >> the day after our last meeting. I I can send them off to you again. It's really not a problem. >> But um but I had really some really good
pictures um really clear uh photographs and uh one of them is from a postcard, one was from an actual photograph good photograph >> and you could really and I I you can kind of zoom in and really see that that's the fence. You can see the design and everything on there.
>> Oh, good. Yeah. >> Good. Yeah. >> But I have not been able to find any receipts um of, you know, who constructed it. My opinion would be that that fencel on the sidewalk was probably installed maybe by the town, you know, way back, you know,
I don't know. Um could have been installed by the church. I I really don't. But why would it go down to Green Street? I don't know. Yeah, you have to. >> And the thing is they moved it out with the granite. >> Yeah. Blocks underneath. >> I know. I know. I I I just have no idea
what how they did it or why why they did it except maybe it was falling apart. >> Yeah. You know, um I think I'm going to take >> Main Street paved. They move it like a paved. >> That's again the picture that that I looked at. I think Main Street was a
dirt road. the first the earlier picture, the later picture which was maybe 20 years later didn't look like I couldn't tell, you know. >> Well, maybe the fence isn't that original, you know. >> Oh, it's original location.
>> I I think it's I think I think that's original, >> but I mean in the location where it was >> Oh, the location was right. The original location was right down by the sidewalk >> because he was thinking it was put in when the new meeting house was put in >> the third. Yeah, it probably was put in
when the third was put in. That's my my guess. The 1830 drawings that we have, okay, have there's no fence there at all. There's only the stone wall here and the stone wall there, you know. No, no, it's just the stone wall here and
and the church goes, I think, over to the stone wall. We'll have to take a look at the old drawings that we looked at. and the stonewall then goes this way, you know, but um so there was no fence >> uh for the uh CPC. Are we is our goal to
and I was looking at the um the burial ground master preservation plan. I have it here just to see we trying to match up some what we're trying to do to the recommendations and and sections of the report. Yeah. Okay. >> And we have been actually kind of
following that thing. It's been worked out that way. Although we haven't been paying strict attention to like the uh the monuments, the uh stones, particular stones that uh the the who was it the guys there, the Fenon guys uh
>> pointed out, but a lot of them have been done because we did get the funding for the the grants for the um revolutionary ones. Then we got the grants for the Civil War ones. So um some of those are in there. And then what we have to do now is kind of meld our our monument
repair to the worst ones that are shown in the book. I think >> and um a lot of them are probably there. >> I think we have to identify those individually pretty much too. >> Y and get pictures and identify okay this is the one we're going to do and
this is these are the ones we're going to try to get done rather than just say well we got to pick 50 that we like. And we there has to be an understanding that you can't have ordinary people come in and say, "Oh, I'd like to help." The stones are incredibly heavy. I I was
going to bring a small stone in here tonight, but the damn thing is too heavy. You really need a cart to bring the darn thing in. It's not in my basement. I found it buried under moss in there. And I just wanted to show this. This is the kind of thingy we could show the committee. This is this
is what slate is. It's it's it's layer layer layer layer layer and it just falls apart. And look at this lovely ornamental piece here. >> It just fell off >> off of off of that stone that that I is in my basement. I don't know what we should do with it. That's another
another thing we should talk about. What happens to stones that can't be this stone can't be reinstalled. I don't think it's too it's too damaged. But um yes, they're heavy. um putting them together like this, it
it it's it's a science. I don't think an ordinary person can do it. I I wouldn't even try. Um some of them are marble and marble has a sugaring thing. It it dissolves because probably because of acid rain and somebody comes up there
with a brush and tries to clean it off, you you'll lose the stone. So, I imagine we'd use some kind of a liquid or something to be gentle. Very gentle with it. >> Well, he has some pretty good um Ben in there put in recommendations for how to do all this stuff.
>> Exactly. Exactly. Right. Precisely. Yeah. >> That's one of the things that uh he mentioned about the different stones, how to treat them differently, too. >> Exactly. Yeah, that's right. It's it's not it's you can't have just people go in there and say, "Oh, we can do it." You know, it's it's it's liability with
the the town. you know, somebody picks up a stone and loses grip and it falls on their leg, it'll break the leg, you know. >> Yeah. >> And and so it's on town property and uh I think it's because they were looking for they were asking earlier about Oh,
other towns have used volunteers to do work like this. >> Yeah. >> Um some some volunteer work could be done, but most of it's >> it's got to be done professionally or very carefully, you know, under the supervision. >> That's right. But we are trying to meld it to this
>> master plan. Why why do you ask it, Ken? >> No, I'm just catching up a little bit. But but it I mean it just for revisiting the master plan, it's only five years old, but here here, you know, continuing it's really so detailed and so it's
it's, >> you know, it's a very useful guide. Yes, it >> seems to be. So what's our next kind of step in this? It's this what we're putting in for now with the grave restoration. The um the gravestones continue with them. the fence, the
entryway, and then the gate, which is this uh over by the townhouse, the old townhouse. This Yeah. >> real ornamental gate there, which he didn't think was super old, but it's very similar to the one at uh Burial Hill in uh Philipp. So,
that apparently is going to be very expensive to fix and maybe it's something we don't want to spend the money on. They were talking like 19,000 for just doing the gate. Yeah, that's huge. >> Um the fence out front, they were talking like 20,000
or something like that. >> Yeah, I I I think in many ways if we take a look at the money, we should apply it to the most important things. And it would seem to me that the artwork and the memorials of former
uh people that lived here in town would have a priority. And uh if if we do the fencing, maybe we can do it little by little or something. I don't know. But it's that's very expensive. Yeah. >> Well, do you have those list those people >> and we know where their graves are exactly?
>> Well, we uh well um I you mean the original petitioners? >> I don't have it with me, but yes, I have a list of original petitioners that I was able to locate and their wives. >> And um by the way, this is this is the grave of the son of an original petitioner, which is kind of
interesting, you know. And uh I think a grand grandson, no great-grandson of a pilgrim, uh his name was Cook. But anyhow, yeah, I I have that and I can I can turn that over to you. >> Well, that's what we should go out there and look at these stones to pick out the
ones that we're going to put in for. >> Well, going to tell you the problem. >> I could find stones >> when they were trees, >> but now everything is different. I I it's I couldn't find the uh the grave of the first minister and I used to always
take people out there >> to show them the first minister in Kingston. >> But now you have new markers, >> new guide markers, new >> those monuments to figure it out. I'll figure You're right. Exactly. There'll be new new ways of doing it. Yeah.
>> But I will send that to you. >> Okay. So, we're going to look at seeing if we get some people scout clean up people just raking plastic rakes and um sticks and I'll talk to the highway super pel picking up stuff after
we're done with that. >> You know, we'll just take it a section at a time and work our way to the back. >> Yeah. >> That way there. And then we have to go out and just photograph and pick the the stones we're going to put in for here. >> Yeah. And I I took a few p I don't know if my I have my phone with me. I took a
few pictures already and u again I'll I'll I'll share those with you. Some of them are rather blurry after again. But yeah, just uh >> and we'll still document as much as we can on the fence. See what they say about the fence. >> Yeah. Um I didn't really um go over the whole master plan. I kind of skimmed
over it. So, I don't know if it's covered or not, but the tombs that are on the far side, the entrance coming in to Evergreen. Um, along the edges and the corners and stuff, there's some gaps and stuff. So, I don't know if those if that's going to be addressed at all or
we could even get a hold of the family, but at some point they might be starting to collapse in. >> Talk about the ones right by Evergreen. >> Right as you come in. Yeah. >> Yeah. Those I don't think they're owned by a family. I think those are there's no names on them, right? >> There are some names. Some of them are knocked out. It's just the brick
backing, but there are some names there. Most of them are fairly faded. I don't know if we can read them. >> And now they're that's marble, too. >> The marble for the the names. Yes. >> Remember we took we one had fallen fallen down and we brought it into one of the empty rooms. >> Yeah. Yeah.
>> Um those are, >> you know, that's on the part of the program. There it is. Okay. >> I think he estimated 35 $40,000 to fix that. >> Very expensive. Yes. And um they're probably going to stick together >> for a few more years hopefully. >> Yes. You know,
>> no I don't think they're imminent danger, but there are some openings. So I think >> at some point >> and the water gets in openings. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah. They probably have to be repointed >> and I I think I think they actually talk about the structure. >> We had a survey done of those
>> when we did the Yeah. cemetery thing. So there is a report there. >> Sorry. What were they? They were tombs. >> Yes. >> I think >> Yeah, there's there's tons of detail from that survey. It's >> was wonderful.
>> Okay. Um All right. Well, we kind of talked about number six. Um >> but I actually, if that's the right spot, I have some more information on all that. >> Yep. Okay. Okay. So, there actually is a Mass General law um for um gravestone
restoration and reproduction and they do highly recommend the use of local historical commissions and stuff and only nonprofit organizations can be involved with organizing the reproduction or the repair of stones. So, I if that helps you at all with the
CPC, it kind of has to come through us or through the state historical commission. Um >> that's good to know. >> Yeah. So, and I can get you that um bass general law if you need it. I'll read it out so you can log it if you want. >> It's actually general law. Uh it's uh so
it's actually CMR, sorry. 950 CMR 41.00. Um so there's that. Um as far as what CMR is that it's not a general, it's not code of Massachusetts
regulatory code of some kind. I told you I can't remember what it >> Yeah. Um >> but it's not >> it's not law. >> It's um >> No, it is. It is a law. >> Oh, it is. Okay. All right. >> Yeah, >> John, what did they say? Oh, okay. Go ahead.
>> Um so, speaking I spoke with Colonial Sar on a couple of uh Colonial Stone, sorry, on a couple of issues. um they would definitely be willing to come out and do a class with us um so that we can uh train specific volunteers to do the the gravestone cleaning um and any
Saturday or Sunday he prefers so we can come up to agreement at some point we can um have them do the class. Um it is safe to use that the D2 in the winter so we can do it anytime or we can wait till the spring. Um, the one thing we will need though and he recommended is we need to get uh respirators. And so I
need to find out if there's full respirators or just like an N95 mask because if we're just spraying it, it's fine. But if we do any of the um light brushing or the plastic scrapers to get the leechins off the leeins and anything that you see dark on there is actually
black mold and black mold you don't want to be breathing in. Mhm. >> So, um, if we're doing any cleaning that we're actually displacing that instead of just wetting it with a chemical, they recommend a respirator. >> Didn't we get some PPE with >> We have PPE. I don't think there I got
to see if there's an N95 mask in there. I know there's not respirators. Um, so I will talk to him again and find out if um those will be suffic if we do need like a respirator cautiousness. >> Yeah. Yeah. Is it permitted >> for them to come and train us and then
we could train somebody else? >> Uh yes. Yeah. So it'll be kind of like a train the trainer. We'll learn stuff. >> So we wouldn't have to keep getting >> we could be limited on who we decide to help clean this up. Yes. Yeah. Um >> and then um Yeah. So there was that part of it. Um
so he'll do the class. Um I did speak to him about the uh the tomb that right by Main Street. Um so he went out looked at it. They actually did repairs on it today. >> Um good. So two things he has in mind. One, it may have been a bad batch of
motor. So he actually took samples of the motor and they're sending it back to the company to see if that's what it was. They went around and checked the rest of the work. They didn't seem to find any other damage anywhere. >> You're right. Um, so another thing too is they've had in the past is people including grown adults get on top of those and jump. So I mean we could put
signage up. Is it going to work? I don't know. Um, so that's always a possibility too. Someone got on there and damaged them. >> But they did repair it today and they think they're coming back tomorrow just to double check it and touch up some spots. >> So that will be repaired. Um,
>> so were they willing to give lessons here in the for the end of the year? Yes. As just as pick a Saturday, Sunday and he'll come out. >> Are they charging for that? Uh, >> no. He said he'll he'll come out and do that. He just knows that um any other work in the future if he could be
considered for it. So I told him yes and course with the bing process and everything we consider him. So >> So what do you think about that? You think we'd want to do that now or wait till early spring? I think we should wait. Uh well, for one thing, I know
that well with the 300th activities that are going on and the 300th book Inc. activities that are going on, I think uh we're stretched to the to the limit as to >> things that you know like that I I believe. Don't you?
>> Yeah, that's true. >> I would like it to work on it in the spring for the summer and of course for the walking tour. >> Oh, yeah. But I I think right now it would be best for us to concentrate cleaning the grounds. >> Then we can get to the stones in the spring.
>> Sure. Yeah. >> Okay. So, you let him know we're looking at early spring when you talk to him about the >> And I mean, he can even do a class for us now where we just don't have to do the cleaning till the spring, too. >> Well, it's just like he says, these guys >> Yeah. >> pretty busy in the book. I I would like
to have a class when I know that like on the next Saturday I'll come up and do some ideas because I'll forget. >> Yeah. And um he did recommend also that we concentrate on the slate ones first.
>> Yeah. >> Because those will be the marble ones is just going to be spraying and then let them sit for a month and they'll clean themselves. But the slate ones we want to get that stuff off that could be eating them. >> Yep. That's right. What which stuff is that? The moss. >> The moss, the leechings, the darkness.
That's this chemical, the D2 will clean just about all of that. Um, and then you spray it. You may have to spray it again in a month. And then you just let it sit. Every time it rains, it reactivates. Um, and then it will clean off and then maybe like six months later, you do another coat on top of it
as coat. >> In D2, you can apply double. >> You can. Yes. as long as long as you do it like you don't want to do it um like in the afternoon when it's going to get cold, but as long as you've got direct sunlight on it, it will it will activate any
um and try not to do it below freezing, but you can still do it this time of year. >> Okay, >> think. >> No, thanks for finding that out. That's great. >> Anything else on that? >> I think I have it all. Um Yep, that's
about it. Okay. Luminires is on the 20th, I guess, right? Yes. 12:20. >> And you guys are having a place for the books, right? A book sale that night. >> Uh library alongside merchandise as
well. >> It's going to be at the um the regular library. >> Yes. >> Okay. I was wondering whether we could have something like um we talked to the people that make our date boards say look we're going to have maybe um end a
year special you know maybe $150 instead of $200 um and we'll push for them at the maybe this have a table there with this application you know fill it out now say $50 for your date board or something
like that. Um and try to push this, you know, sell a few of them on Luminire night. >> Are you guys going to be inside with the books that night? Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Um I'll probably be in the church. >> We tried doing sales outside last year. It didn't go off
>> for the book. >> No, for the merchandise. >> Oh, >> it was cold. >> Yeah. Yeah. So, for the special price, we'd have to get the >> We have to We have to talk to the Sorama. Yeah. I don't know how that'll
go over, but we'll see. >> All right. Um 300 Book Project, you guys just off a high up there going on. >> Oh, I mean, great news. Books are being bound. We should have them, you know,
maybe next Tuesday or Wednesday. It's not going to be all thousand at once. Um but they're they're coming and um our hopefully you've heard our community launch is um 2 days after Thanksgiving,
Saturday the 29th uh noon to 3 school. Um we're really excited about the whole thing. It's going to be really positive short presentations showing a lot of the the photos and other um really incredible visuals. Um Bill
Albertie, hope you'll read his poem. Bill um local poet you all know Bill probably who >> wrote the little story of the Jones River and that's key part anyway but um we have a bunch of events from there so
it's it's uh going well we got sales are are rolling out a bit but we got a lot of promoting to do and spreading the word and um later on I'd love to show you but not now I'll throw it out here some um sheets from the printer that
show the actual Each sheet has eight pages on it and you can just see the vivid detail and the graphic excellence. We just it's going to be very engaging. >> It's going to be beautiful. And when I first saw those actually right off the
press what what the book's really going to look like. It is the color pops right out at you. It is really lovely. It's a beautiful book. It's um I think when people look at it, they'll they will want to purchase it and and for the
price it's it is it really is. >> So the next date for then would be the 29th, the next event date for you guys. >> Yes, that's our opening >> um a bunch over the next >> Yep. Will that be all day? >> 10 days. >> Yeah. >> Will that be all day?
>> Wow. >> The event. >> Yeah. Noon to 3. >> Noon to 3. >> Noon to 3. Yeah. And if people keep buying the books, we'll stay till 4, maybe five. H >> how how are you getting word out about that?
>> Uh group emails are starting to go out through the rec department. They're about to do one. We have our own list. >> Um through some um entities in town like Georgia Village, Historical, etc. Um social media, Facebook helps, but that
doesn't >> Yeah. um little you know whatever media is still around in terms of old print were >> we're doing we were we had a a nice local scene um >> uh did a nice uh excuse me a um taping
of us that that's a YouTube um and Tom and Jan and I talked and showed some of the book and that was that was great push that out but >> great yeah I would just mention one other thing that that we're so really grateful that the the
book is going to be accessible for a lot of people because we're discounting at $35. Um, and you know, just say it briefly here in a in a public meeting that we owe um great thanks to Kathy Linatra for
um putting that through the state budget and we have a we have an earmark that is that is coming through. We're going through those steps as John well knows. Um, so it's it it's not in hand, but it is it is coming. And that really is kind
of a gamecher because with the publishing, with the printing cost and all that, the book really needed to be at about $55, which is a lot. You add in >> everything else. Um, so it's really we're
it's a good feeling that you know seniors in this town who might say no I I can't buy a $50 bill but maybe for 35 or people can buy a couple for their families and >> well and and this we had many
contributions many contributors um but this is a professional book so we we had to hire a professional designer uh to do the book and and It shows a professional photographer, you know, these people were expensive, but it
shows and uh and I think the town deserves it and getting the state grant town will be able to enjoy it. You know, I think it's really great. You know, I I I I think and and along with, you know, what the 300th committee is doing, I
think it's a great match. You know, we have something that's going to go right along with all the events. >> Yes. And we'll have a we're going to have a great kickoff December 4th um that 42nd uh brew. Um >> yeah, tell us more about that. >> Oh, John.
>> Okay. >> Yeah. >> What? >> You finished with you finished with the book and I can move on. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Okay. Um so yeah, so with the 300th committee, um we're happy to announce that our our first like official kickoff thing is going to be join with the book
committee um on December 4th at the um 42nd Brewery down in the center on Summer Street uh 5:00. So uh we'll be in there. Uh people welcome to stop in. We'll answer any questions. We'll be selling they'll be selling books. We'll be selling merchandise. Um, and the uh
42nd uh brewery cooked their kulch beer and they reabeled it um >> it's a special for Kingston, right? >> It's going to be the Jones River Pulch water from the Jones River. >> They're taking a dollar out of every
sale and donating it to the 300. >> All right. >> So, that is and special thank you to the book committee. Um, they allowed them to use this picture of the Jones River that they overlay. You can barely see it, but they overlay the Oldtown map in it. So, >> yeah, that's cool. That is cool. Yeah.
>> Great. >> So, um, that will be on the 4th. Um, and then our first official um town event will be on um January 31st. That will be the gala. Uh, tickets are $75. There will be dinner, music, and a silent
auction um to raise some more funds for further events. Um and that will be at um Joel Trading Post on Elm Street. >> That was January 31st. >> January 31st. Yep. Um so we have other events planned throughout the year and
um we actually just came from the 300th meeting and there's a lot of interest going on in town. A lot of people are finally getting excited about it. They want to do more things. Some of the events we had planned um over the last month, multiple people have come to these different working groups and want
to be involved. So, um, we have a lot more interest right now and it's going really well. Um, we are going to be probably we're looking at either a drone show or fireworks the night of the old home day. Um, looks like we're probably
going to end up with fireworks show, but it should be a pretty significant fireworks show. >> Sorry, when is that? >> That will be during the old home day and that will be either September 19th or a rain date on the 26th. Now, did you say the 4th of July? We'll
we'll be doing something on the 4th. >> We're not doing anything on the 4th, but we're actually the 20 So, the the town was incorporated on the 16th of June, and I think we had our first town meeting like the 28th or the 29th. >> So, uh unfortunately the 16th is a
Tuesday night. So, we kind of split in the middle of those two dates more towards the town meeting. We're on June 27th, we're going to read a proclamation. Um we're going to request a proclamation from the governor. Um we're going to read that um probably on the town green and then um we're in I'm
in the process of trying to develop and um get a stone that we can com commemorate our Revolutionary War veterans. We don't have one in this town. Um and a possibility of putting it in the old uh burial ground because a lot of them are buried there.
>> Absolutely. That may be a good spot. You should look and see. we have a veteran section in the back, so that would always be a possibility. >> Um, >> so we'd also like to try if we can get that completed, either dedicate that or even >> not do an official digging, but maybe a groundbreaking ceremony and then maybe
later in the year, Veterans Day or something we could dedicate that, >> but um so we'd like to do that on so it won't be on July 4th, but we'll do that on uh June 27th. Close enough. So um we'll have the proclamation and then I know I think you had suggested maybe the declaration. So maybe you could have
someone do that at that time. >> There was there was a time there the declaration of independence was recited by the minister uh in the church uh uh several weeks after uh it was
written, you know, and uh and all the people had to go to church and listen everybody in town. >> I wouldn't expect him to bring it out to the old burial ground or the town of Green. Maybe we could get um Nick to actually display the letter from Thomas
Jefferson the town has somewhere. >> That would be nice during that month. >> Yeah, sure. Yeah, that's right. [clears throat] >> Signature is right. I hope you're all watching the Ken Burns. >> I am. >> I I need to watch. I know this week. Yeah, >> Michaela, what was the date on that?
>> That is January 31st. >> Jan, it is January. Okay. that uh anybody watching um you can find um all this on the town website. Um there's going to be a banner going up on the the first page the homepage. It's kind of
difficult to find where the different committees and stuff are, but we will be getting a banner put up. So as soon as you get on the home page, you can click on that. >> Do we need tickets to get >> to the 300 to the gala? Yes, >> the gala. Yes, they're $75. Um they'll be going on sale uh they're on sale now
um cash or check. Um they'll be going on sale via the rec department for electronics um December 1st. So >> do you know uh could you potentially get them at the luminaries? >> It's a possibility. Yes, we might be selling them with the merchants. Yes. >> Yep. >> We should we should
>> Are they electronic tickets or is it actual physical tickets? >> Um I'm not sure exactly what they're doing with if they're going to have physical ones or just writing names down. Um but then it's just um online will be um just submit to the rec
department like you would for any town program. >> We just we're limited as a committee where um the towns can't get something like a Venmo. So we that's our only option is to go through the right department. >> Y it sounds like it's been busy.
>> Looks great. What a year it's going to be. >> Y big one. >> It is. >> All right. Well, I have no news on the powder house. There was someone over there the other day too, but I didn't stop. So, um, they had been working on it. I don't know where they are
that next time. Um, did anybody go to the, uh, planning board meeting, Main Street meeting they had a couple weeks ago? You didn't. >> Did you? You were home. >> My god. Okay. >> Briefly. >> Yes. [laughter]
Is there anything important that we should know about that? >> Well, the I don't know. It was kind of around a couple of tables and you had some input on, you know, pointing out on the map where this problem what you see along
Main Street. Um, but a lot more than that. So, it it was a little little bit free form. I don't know how they're going to gather and compile. I mean, it was a lot of people there, so they got I'm sure they got a lot of specific suggestions. Um >> but it was it was just kind of people
were circulating and talking to the consultants and the town planner and um so I didn't get a sense of what the whole you know how is this going to come together right away. >> Who were the consultants? >> I I don't know. I mean I met one >> but yeah
>> it's kind of jet lag in and out. >> Oh god. You know you you know when Ken was over in Paris he was doing work on the book Paris. Imagine being in my work. >> That doesn't sound so bad. You know,
sitting outside cafe in Paris and you could be at home. >> Yeah. But I Yeah, that's a good story. They'll talk about you. >> That's right. >> I said um the NAPC webinar. Did anybody go to
that last one? No, I don't have the bandwidth right now. >> I see it either. All right. Any other new business tonight? That's all I have on the agenda. Any other Tom? Really? >> Good. >> John, anything else? >> He really is getting his bandwidth
filled there. >> And Ken, you're going to put those out in a little bit, but what? Anything else? No. Jim, >> no. No. Just next meeting, December 10th. 6:30. >> December 10th. December 10th. Okay.
6:30. Very good. Okay. So, um shall we adjourn and then look at the book pages or does that sound good? >> All right. >> Make a motion to adjurnn. >> Okay. >> Second. >> All in favor?
>> Okay. Thank you guys.