Call the meeting of the Newbury Historical Commission to order at 7:13, Thursday, June 12th. I'll rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of
United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, for liberty and justice for all. Okay, that's out of the way. Minutes from the May meeting. Everybody please peruse those. See if we
get any errors. to me. Any errors or emissions? I'll attain a motion to accept as written. I move that we accept the U meeting minutes from Thursday, May 8th
uh as written. Second. Second. All in favor? I done. Okay. One didn't give us the treasures report. No, we do. Yeah. You have no
treasures report. Did you hear me when I said I was on the phone with people like Yeah. of course. Okay. So there it is. Um so
for the 24 available I'm trying to figure out what's the most important part here. Well, the general account fund is the money we spend as we go. The special account is the MIA, right?
So, we have about $800 left and the gift fund is the money that's people. And I was think so available cash minus whatever bills he have add up to 79. $797.18,
right? So, he still has to pay that. We've got three weeks to spend it. The jippy. No. Isn't that Well, isn't that part of committed? Where is he committed? See how it says? Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah. And then now he has
to he said it's I believe he said on the phone it will cost us almost that much money to replenish the stuff that was given out yesterday. Oh good. We gave out a lot of stuff yesterday you guys did really because the you know that book we have we call it the coloring
book but I forget who it was done for the 75th 60 and it's like you know pages of it's coloring up in a cute little but it's it's a lot of pages. Yeah. So, and one of the teachers said she had already taught it. She had a
copy. Yeah. And Yeah. And and they loved it. And she loved it. Everybody loves it that comes in. It's the funniest thing. It's like, "Oh, this is awesome." Cuz it's informative but not difficult. So, he thinks we need the 800 to reprint all of those. Well, for he he um when I
talked to him on the phone, something else came up. Oh, because we need to get more. We need to print a few more things. So we 55 things went open. Right. Right. No, which makes sense because like so I don't know that each magazine had a postcard and a um a
schoolhouse. I think part of this expended thing is the is is the um the portable party. Yeah. Right. So I don't think he had time to actually calc. That's why I think that n $700 is what he said we were going to pretty much use
up the whole thing. Okay. It's a That's a pretty heavy stock paper, too, though. You might be able to go down a little cuz it's it's pretty heavy stock. Yeah. If you make it with a little bit less of a grade paper, right? Do a heavy stock cover, but the pages don't need to be as heavy as they are. It's actually not a
bad solution. Yeah. Before we get into spending money out of that 794, does payroll come out of that? No. No. My payroll has nothing to do with this. And my payroll is done already. No more money. Did you see the email that the assistant cler uh accountant sent that I
forwarded to you this afternoon? Yeah. Okay. So, you got that? I did. I thought I It's probably floating around here in the night. But yes, I did. I did see it. And I did.
There's no more money for me. Okay. I got to deal with Jeff. There might be like, you know, 50 cents or something. Well, she sent she sent that email last month reminding us that we're going to run out of money. She just sent it again today that we're going to run out of money. So, and lawn last month never
opened the email. So, we need to make sure that lawn when he he's seen the town because once again I told them to CC the historical commission email account that the town created for us and yet that seems to be beyond the
possibilities of doing it. So, I'm not sure why this is a problem. So, we need to make sure that Lawn Yeah. has a copy of that email and has read it and he has less than like he's got 20 something days to orchestrate all this. Yeah. He
knows that part. He knows that when the this is June, the end of the month, he's got the third till the 30th of June to make sure that any and all bills have been um submitted created created. Yeah. I mean, some people don't do their
billing until, say, the 15th of the month, so we won't get the bill until July 15th, but it's for stuff that happened before June 30th. Gotcha. That happens a lot. So, he puts an order in for the printing now. They give him the amount of money. They tell him how much it's going to cost, but we might not get
the printing until And they let him pull that forward. No, they'll they'll give him the he'll prepay because he's already paid it before on some of these things because we've done them so many times, but The invoices have to save this season. Yeah. And he's he's
actually well aware of that. Good. All right. Well, we're going to make sure this all gets tied together. Yeah. Cuz I was literally was talking to him this evening about it and what was left and he was talking about the three things that um went out the door with
the kids that cost so that instead of he wants to replenish them all because one of them was postcards and the other was the little um house information booklet and then the heavy duty coloring book. So, um some things
he had already planned on getting more printed before the end of this month and he's going to up the amounts now because we had that about visit. Okay. We need somebody to make a motion that lawn is to expend the rest of the
budget on printing at the discretion of the treasurer. And then any additional orders that we still need, he is to order them in July. So it balances out.
Okay. Okay. Interestingly, chair can't make a motion. That we it's at his discretion to use it up and then if he's still ordering more stuff, it's a second invoice for July. Yeah. and he's aware of because we just had
this discussion. Be a motion. Okay. I move that uh we instruct Long to uh use up the remaining funds um and if there are uh further purchases that he make sure that that money is appropriately allocated at his discretion
for I hear a second March 27th. I'll second. All in favor? I seriously it doesn't have that people get really confused what fiscal year we're in. Well, it
always confuses me so awkward. It's the end of the fiscal year, which is June 30th, which so it makes it 2025, right? As of July 1st, it's fiscal 2026. Whoever made up the halfway. Well, because some money out of it.
Yeah. No, you can if you want if you went to start a business and you wanted to start, you know, in August, that's your fiscal start date. So that means your fiscal year end if you choose to do a 12 month.
Okay. Okay, I guess some people will go to December 31st and call it a partial first year and then start in January just for that reason because people go but all right so that's why it happens like that and master gardeners just um
what they did was they did a cut off period so that they could realign with the first of the year for their fiscal year because they were on the July 1st as well but most fiscal with is um most um what are we what are municipality stuff. Most government things is
thanking something um is always July 1st. No idea what you know. Fourth of July. I have no clue where they Somebody made some money on it. So, yes, somebody made some money
off. Won have any comments on the upper uh lower green study committee? He did not mention it at all. And he just gave us an update last month. So we'll uh and they came they went before the um select
select board I believe. Yeah, last week they went before the I believe the planning board or the planning board. Um I think it was I think they've gone through both to both of them and now they're waiting planning board for um
things to get processed and finalized to go to this with Mass Historical Commission. They're just waiting basically. Well, they're pretty much that's it's got to go forward and then they'll tell them if they need to do anything else because
everything has to be settled hopefully without needing to be voted on by anything else. Yeah. So that if we have a fall meeting, it can be presented at the fall meeting to be passed. So we'll see what happens. But he is um
up on that as far as can be I guess considering they don't I don't remember year that we didn't have a fall meeting. So it's been a long time. It's pretty standard. Okay. Website report. Everything's pretty much still the same. Um I got a
bunch of pictures yesterday of the kids which I'll add to my pile to update. I need to actually just sit down and do the actual updating. And I was going to write up a little blurb and L was going to send it to the Daily News. Super cute. Oh, good press release. But um you scroll past, but
they even had the kids all like dressed up and stuff. Yeah, it was really cute. And then what did you how many kids did you say? 60 or so. It was like three classrooms worth. Yeah. 55 kids and then the chaperons and teachers. Where are they from? Uber elementary. She'd ring
the bell and then the kids would shift out different little groups of kids. They used to jump rope and they rode all over the black. They looked for their names on the monument. Yeah. Good. Yeah. It was cute. And there there were at least one or two in each class on the
monument. So Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, we have a lot of families that have been here since since then. So, it's nice. And there was a young boy who who recognized James Jackman. It turns out he lives in in the old Jackman farm on Green Street. So the one that my husband
grew up in. So that was kind of fun. I know. I told him I was like, I'm glad you guys came and like did this. You know, there's no reason why they, you know, could kind of add that into a Yeah. Eva had a great I think you may have already left, but Eva had a great idea that maybe the next time we do
this, one of their teachers actually teaches a lesson. Yeah. In the classroom, you know. Well, when we have more than five minutes, they had five minutes, five to eight minutes in that classroom before we had to switch out. So, yeah, it was like a 45 minute long field trip. That was enough though cuz
they were pretty wild. They were the kids. No, they just came from the Spence PS little farm. What were they doing there? Who knows? Harassing. So, they might have been running around. So, they were still all They were pretty wild. I I I almost went in there with a
ruler and I thought to myself, they're only there five minutes, but they were a little bit too much. I think if we were going to have a short visit like that again, we really got to rein them in cuz the schoolhouse won't survive it. They were wild. That kind of switch. We let
them chop writing all over the chalkboard. And I actually said I was like, "Some of these kids have probably really never written on a chalkboard." Know what a chalkboard is. Y like it. But we did think about the books. Well, actually I did. I think they should have been standing in the back of the room, not sitting. But with the books and the
paperwork that was falling out of the books, that was not good. Yeah. Lesson learned. I don't think there was any serious. But everyone that No, everyone that walked out cuz I was outside the door. They were thrilled. All those kids, they were they were yelling to the other kids how much fun it was. And one
of them said they thought it was going to be spooky, but it isn't. Yeah, I it's it's that teacher standard in there from the outside looks spooky. So, yeah, it was cute. Definitely a worth of hours. Oh, definitely. You know, and the
schoolhouse looks so good. Yep. It does look fantastic. I'm I'm actually a lot more uh impressed with how it turned out. Yeah. Than what I expected. Beyond expectations. Okay. Correspondence.
The only correspondence we got was confirming that they got Eva's thing to be on the for the real trail sales. I actually confirmed with them because it goes through their site, not through my email. And when I got an email saying sign up, I'm thinking I already did
that. So she confirmed that I had already done it. Yeah. Yeah. But I guess it goes through the thing and then it bounces back to them after the fact. It was So yeah, it was Yeah. But at least I did it did go through. I was afraid it hadn't any discussion on signs or any of
that stuff that we never have. We had but some right but somebody stole one I think last year too. Remember the year before they took both of them. We had none for at that point and then last year it seems that one walked away last year. Oh maybe the one that was up by
Robin House. I think lame. So but we'll see when we when we get closer to it. We'll make sure we get them. All right. Um, and are we extending hours or what are we doing about that? Yeah. Didn't we already talk about that the last time, but I'm not sure. Is it not in I think
it was 10 to 10 to 3. 10 to 3 something. And I didn't bring my phone. I have it written in But it's in September. Yeah. So, she has time to to straighten us up. Yeah. All right. Um, schoolhouse address, 260 High Road. So, that's been
made official. I just put that on there every because people kept saying I mean do we does it have an address? It's it's officially that's the thing on the town website. That's what it says. You look up if you look before and it just says and nobody and everybody kept saying I didn't even know it had an address. I just kind of left it on there because
somebody else is going to ask and it's on there. So technically it's High Road. It's not like the little side road or whatever. Yeah. That which doesn't even have an check on maps in the attic. Yeah, we haven't done that yet. climb up there. That was
just stone. I drove by there and again I meant to stop and take a picture but there was somebody on my tail so I couldn't like stop. It definitely looks like it needs to be pushed back. Like it's making me concerned. Why is this not Yeah. I was like, why is this not done yet? And is it poison ivy or
something else that's growing? But it looks like it's the witches stone. Oh, we already jumped that. Sorry. Did I go past it? No, no, we did. We skipped your windows. Um, but it just looks like it's not in the wall a little bit for me. Like I don't know why. Just like when I drove by it like
caught my eye. I'm like you need to have that. I'm hoping that I'll get together with uh with James next week. I'd like to get signs but down the road the back road of the schoolhouse that says leaves of three let it be because the whole length of the wall is poison ivy town.
You need to have the goats just kind of chew it up. It's the whole town. So, do you have goats that you've got? Yeah, I trust me, I very tempted to get the Okay. Uh, window update. Yeah. So, I I sent the pictures of the damaged window
to uh to James uh so he's aware of it. Um, and I asked him I said if possible, because now we're open, could they possibly repair it in place without removing it and putting a piece of plywood up there? Right. Right. Right. We'll see what happens. I haven't heard back from him yet. Hopefully, he doesn't have to wait. It's definitely damaged.
Oh, yeah. Yep. No, but I thought you thought you could get you had something you could get it off with when we were No, no, no. This is This one. This is different. Not the glass piece of them of the repaired mop. That's crap. Yeah. Yeah. I still want to know what's up with that weird pane of glass though.
That is weird. It's like hazy. One one out of all of them has like a haze on it. We should talk about that. So, that's one that needs like a piece of the wood in the um some epoxy kind of redone. Yeah. Yeah. He should be able to do that. It's a small amount. That
shouldn't Yeah. But it's not right. But it's not huge either. And it's not like in a weird spot that you have to take it out. That's bizarre. I don't know what's going on with that at all. Oh, yeah. Crap. It just po And they had something on there and it just didn't stick. It just popped out. So, do you have a
piece? No. And of course, so many people run their dogs around there. You know, a stick hasn't got a chance. [Music] Okay. So, you got to talk to James about window windows and two rocks. Father stone. Yep. Father stone and the the
stone on central. Yep. Okay. Um that's that. Uh two me two board members uh terms are up this year, Jan and Eva. So, you've got to send that uh letter
into the selectman. Did it weeks ago? Yeah. Done and done. Good. But I haven't heard anything. We're always a priority. They must have Did they have another meeting before? Well, they must be before before they And but because it's like two weeks out. Mhm. There's no
agenda yet. So, okay. Um so, this is this is still all unfinished business. update on the DDB. Um, what are you talking about that changing
the time period on the DDB? Yeah, we're talking about ex extending the time period and also giving us a an escape hatch on that the whole hearing process in our past. Um, just an an alternative for a case that's really obvious, an alternative process. I've
got to get that clause out that we talked about last year. It was a thin law on the match pressed today that there's a law going through um and it's going to affect the DVBs
in the whole state, right? Oh, um if they don't if what they have what they say is not in um concurrence with the what the new law is. So um if you don't do it, you
should look at the mass press. Is do they have a draft of the new book? They give you the they give you the uh the code was there. I thought I printed it but I cannot see it. So I must not have her. It's sitting in the printer cuz it was kind of a little crazy when I went
to leave the house. Um you think I had people there. So I'm not sure. Um it's they put the the the number that it's it's going to be for the um select
for the uh on the state paperwork, but um it's it has to do with the timing of things like how many months out things can be and because it's going to it's also going to affect um historic districts information. It's
going to it's going to be a zip a zipper ripper thing, I guess. So, okay. So, if you don't usually go in there, go in there. You can ask his press. Not difficult to find. How you find it? Oh, and that reminds me, FYI, because we
changed everything. If anybody was using me cards that I had made years ago, I have them in my wallet somewhere. The um now the website address is incorrect because we changed it. Ah, so and it's not like it's an easy fix because it
went from Newbury Mass to from town of New Town of Newbury I think it said before and um and now it's new ma.gov. So it's not like you could just like do a little quick scribble but just so in
case you want to just put a line through it and put the right thing on the back if you go to hand them out. Lon says he's almost out of them. He uses his all the time. I've ever had one. So, no one's ever needed one for me. So, like I had like 10 in my wallet for like the longest time. The thought was when I
started doing this, there was numerous meetings in Boston. I went to two of them. There's 200 people in the room. They're all the heads of all the historical commissions in Massachusetts. And there'd be a lecture on this document, how to do
this, and there'd be a question and answer series. It did completely away with that. So, we have no contact with the head of the Mass Historical or any of that. And there'd be seminars and it' be training all this stuff and and they
were in uh somewhere in the Boston metro area. Um, it's lame. So, I thought a lot of it was at the library. It's nice to network and just to like get people together and well the one I went to book line something it was somewhere in
the city. I printed this out for you. Um the sub this is from uh mass historical not Hamilton historical commission um Hamilton historic district commission.
This is one of the uh their annual their monthly minutes and the format um and how they write it. And this is purely justformational stuff. It doesn't have anything to do with anything that's
in it, but I thought it would. So, they've got some uh two forms on here. So, uh application for certificate. This is this is what I was getting. This is in order to get before them to do
anything, you need to fill out a form to get permission to come in. Yeah. So, you fill out the form and then we read the So, they don't just have random people showing up and Yeah. Yeah. No, no more I write people showing up about how am I going to paint my house. You fill this
out, then you get okay, then you get an appointment kind of before the board um to stop a lot of the screw screwing around. um read that. Yes, I will. Thank you. I thought I was on there this week and I thought, "Oh, that's pretty professional
looking." And there's a lot of terminology and the way it's all laid out I thought was really good. One of the things I think I gave you, did I give you a little stack of papers? Just it? Yeah.
So, no, just give me the three pages, agenda, two pages of the agenda. It's somewhere in the mess. Hang on one second because I did it for you.
I made copies. This is what happens. The nightmare of trying to get out of the house tonight was just I have no idea why. I live alone. You think it would be difficult. She's looking a friend of mine is uh up in Sebrook
just became I guess you're still a author or writer. Uh does children's coloring books. Now, would we want to make a color the coloring book we have is new specific? Yeah.
So, we're all set with that. We don't need to do anything. You mentioned that you there might be some changes. We thought Yeah, I thought they could there could be some changes or additions. I mean, we could we could in theory prep it for the 400th. I mean, I know it's a
few years out, but we could like do a a new maybe or or a secondary one or something. I don't know. like addition two. So, it's that plus the next the next swing of things cuz I I think the
format it's in right now is good. Yep. I just think some of the information should be tweaked and um I'll read it through again. You want to just take one, mark it up. Yeah, take one, mark it up, and then like in I just think it, you know, there could be
added, you know, activities for the kids, whatever. I'm sure there's more facts we could add that like to town, you know, if you wanted to add a couple more pages. You don't want it to be too big, though. So, it's this happy medium of maybe, you
know, tweaking it a little and getting some more stuff in there. Yeah. I hope I know I made multiple copies of that and I don't know what this is. Because this is the three coins. It's all about coin information. Yeah.
This one is from historical commission meeting summary 912 2012. You remember that meeting, don't you? No. And the 375th anniversary coins. The historical commission discussed the fate of the bronze and silver coins. Barbara
Rogers made a Barbara Rogers. I've told you how far back that historical commission is. made a motion to have Chris send a letter to Tracy on the board of selectman requesting me take position of the silver coins the bronze coins would be
left in the possession of the town and they'd like to keep from a selectman stating that they would like to keep the gold coins as tokens of appreciation as the situation arises.
The letter will also state our intent to to sell the silver coins and the proceeds going towards the historical commission for future projects again. So reiterating tucked away somewhere waiting for somebody to earn
them. Yeah, exactly. What was the price of gold back in 2012? Way less than today. So that's why I keep saying that money, the special fund
was the coins. Good find. You know, got boxes, boxes, boxes, papers, find out historical commission website. And I could have sworn I made three cop copies of this for everybody. So now I
don't know where they are. sentence. I I don't It's incomplete. What's a choppy sentence? Well, it just jumps the Where are you on that on 2012? Yeah. Okay. Well, that's not the only one that's there, right?
I think I gave you like three or four months worth of minutes. [Music] Anniversary. Yeah. So this is October historical commission discuss the fate of the silver coins
remaining from 350th anniversary. Chris spoke to Tracy Blaze who said the town wants to keep this Chris spoke Tracy that said the town wants to keep the silver coins at the town hall for the
town meeting. Tracy explained if the historical commission would like the town to sell the coins, we should indicate in such a memo to Tracy and the select and the coins would then be sold because the coins are
considered town profit and proceeds from the sale must go into the town's general fund. At the ne next historic commission meeting, the votes voters would have to approve the appropriations of those funds to the historical
commission. Uh motion at the same meeting. Motion build town made a motion for Chris Relic to send a letter to Tracy requesting the following. Silver coins are to be sold and the town should manage the sale. Proceeds from this sale. Uh proceeds
from the sale of the coin should be placed in dedicated account for transfer to the historical commission. Gift fund pending voter approval. Proceeds from the sale should be used to future program endeavors prioritizing prioritized by the historical
commission. Unanimous vote. a gold coin kicking my own because if we sold it, there would like double our special fund. I'm sure those are no one will ever find those. Are they Are they actually gold?
Really? Mhm. Right. That's my I can't believe they spent I'm not sure if they're Yeah, but what was it? What was it? A full ounce. Like what were they cladded? Like what how much How big were they like weight wise? like a a
silver dollar for like weight wise. Was it a full ounce? Well, they all were depending on what was in them. I'm trying to think of the one I had. Bronze one would have been lighter than the gold one. Probably the same cuz they were all the same size. They were the same size, but the metals don't weigh
the same, do they? Historical commission meeting December 12th, 2012. Brief sale of the coins. Brief discussion ensued about the sale of the silver coins. According to an email from Tracy dated 121212,
uh I just want to let you know based on the committee's vote, we are moving forward with the selling of the coins. Whatever amount is received from the sale will be recommended for appropriation at the town meeting to the historical commission purposes. Chris has been appointed as liaison to work
with Tracy in gift crafting a warrant article. So the appropriation goes to historical commission gift funds. So again that is what that special fund was. That's not what it may have been part of
it. So it would have been the April third April of 2013 panel meetings where they would have possibly put it on the wall. I think I tried to find that one and I couldn't find it. That's awesome because
this is this is 1212 1212, right? Okay. So, the next town meeting would have been the following April, which would be April of 2013. The other article is also very interesting on this December minutes
meeting the last uh business for the historical commission. Um, so, uh, we discussed the role of the Newbury Improvement Trust. Whether or not this group is even active, no one
had a clear sense of what Newbury improvement trust does or how it operates. The 375th anniversary committee gave $1,500 to the Newbury Improvement Trust. when the anniversary committee disbanded in
early spring of 2011. We have no idea what ever happened to this money or if it ever got moved to the correct place. So that's another thing. So what I also the
you don't know what the starting starting balance because the historical commission did exist and there was three members but they uh gave them the boot because they weren't meeting at all and the 375th
functions were very large and also made money. So there were deposits from all the events that happened for 12 months. It was a whole year of events. Really? Yeah. Yeah. So and there was the
book. There was multiple. Do you have some small book? I do. Then then we did there was there was the other the the softbound book and then we had the house tour. We had the event on the lower
green with the chicken barbecue and the bands and rowing the boats down the river and then he had the orchestra and goves. Um, a lot of stuff that generated revenue. So, um, does that include the picnic
with the the hay stack thing? Was that part of that? Yes, the hay stack was part of that. Um, I've got the the card I had the book back in my house. Oh, that's right. Yeah. See, I wasn't
So, if you have anything that we can share. Okay. Find it, please. And you can I think all I have is that little booklet. If you have anything, you can even leave it down the schoolhouse for me or something in the room if you want. So, we don't have one of those little books in there, huh?
I saw one. It's little the Chris book. No, I think Pur is the only one I've ever seen. Really? Didn't you like bring it to a meeting one time vaguely? Yeah, I think that's the only time I've ever seen that. And I don't know of one that Chris did. The 350th or the 375? 375.
375. 350. There's one book at the schoolhouse about the 375. But it's just the one that one thing. There isn't anything else that I know of that's down there about it. So, I'll keep an eye out. I'll
Well, there was image. There was images. There was images. And then there was the the first barriers burial settlers burial ground book. The mapping book. The um that all came out Cunningham the
Cunningham book. We had those things. Yep. Yep. They're down there. They're on the in the back table there cuz I remember that we have three cemetery books down there. No. Do we have those on lanyards or anything or
a system to keep track of that doesn't they don't walk out in between two coloring books or anything? Not really. Well, some of them we have them. We have them at the front desk. They can if they want one. I think those are places. The
Images of America. Yeah, we've got that for sale. That one. Yes. The Images of America, the Jackman House, and No. So, I mean, you know, Beth, we're not a library. We can't We don't have an alarm system.
I can't chain it to the table. Table fall apart. So, okay. I mean, we have some of the things out front for sale, but and I think one at least one of the cemetery books is for sale out there. Yeah. Is it? Oh, maybe the evergreen
evergreen cemetery. I don't think we had those for sale though. Why are those out front on the table? That's the one that's it's at code bind. It's got the little plastic binder. It's got a a clear plastic cover. You know, maybe we want to make some copies of those things, but are
they copyrighted? like the one from or we should look because everybody's interested in who's buried where but I haven't sold a book. I don't remember even selling one book last year. I sold a Jackman house book. Did you?
I people will like throw donation money when they take a postcard and stuff more so than wanting a book, you know. But yeah, the books are specific and when people come out and look at the table, I say except for those like actual books, anything else is is is, you know, we are
taking those, we had to pay actually money out ourselves to get those. So, we have to try to get the money back for those. But, um, and people go, "Oh, okay." Like, they don't seem to think that that's unfair. So,
all right. Anything else? I don't know. Is there anything else? Okay. So, we're good on that. Yep. All right. Anything? So, we we're not doing anything with the um EDB
at this time. Got to look for the I'll forward that email um on the masses press to you guys. I love you, J. What am I supposed to be printing out on you? You say it was. All you have to do
is log into it and it will send it to your email and you can read it if you choose. Problem is I get so many emails that I just skim over and I'm like I don't read things. Well, see I mean like it's important. It's survival mode. Well, but see I have the
historical commission website I have to look at plus my website that I have to look at. at it. No, but I mean I have things separated in big long column down the side of my stuff. And the same thing on the town website one. It's like the
schoolhouse, the this. It's all folders because who could keep track of all this stuff? I mean, I can't on my own. I have my bills to pay and things in separate folders, the taxes, all that stuff. My daughter's going to Florida for some youth group trip and she's like and I
was like asking question. She's like, "It's all in the email." I was like, I don't read. I was like, I don't. Well, see, that's it. I mean, you know, the only other thing is is you do do is is you open up another account. Yeah. You know, just another one. I mean, I have
like three of them now. Oh, yeah. But and then that way you could only you could just for the masses press only give it to them and the only way you get it from them unless they give it sell them to somebody else which my Gmail account when somebody asked me
for my email I give them the Gmail account. I haven't haven't looked at it in two years. Actually I had to go look at it to keep it active. They sent me a warning. Yeah. Like please send something from here. Okay. You know how about a motion to adjourn. I make a motion we adjourn. I second. 7:55. 11 75
second. Oh, I second. All in favor? I Okay, this is the addendum to the historical commission meeting. We are doing the what's it antique series. Eva is on stage first with her first what's it? Oh, no. It's the 47 Dodge
pickup that's out in the driveway out in the parking lot. That's what mine is tonight. So, let's see what you've got. All right. Well, thank you. Oh, I can't see it. It's behind my car. Do Should we go outside and look at it? Here's a picture of it. We're trying to choke that down here. Wait, I'm going to go
over here. Oh, I know exactly what that is. All right. We'll start out with this. She's the one that called that day with the money to say how much money. It's too big for an eye cup and too small for an egg cup. It's Peter handmade.
I think I'm holding it the right side up because the bottom's unfinished. M. It's a little crooked. And it is it a snuffer? No, it's not a snuffer. It almost looks like a like a cordial. Yeah. Yeah, like a cordial, but I've never seen a cordial. Look at the base
on it. Is it a salt? H, you know, it doesn't. That does look like the bottom unless it's just unfinished and the bottom edge is unfinished. It's too small for a salt. Well, not really. The salts were because someone with bigger things than me.
Yeah, but they had those little tiny spoons for the salt. Hold it back camera again so they get a good look at it all the way around. Yeah, flip it. Can I get the ball? Yeah, you know, just so you can see what it looks like. Yeah, it looks like it could have been repaired
though poorly. So, you wouldn't have had that. Well, it's got Eileene, doesn't it? I mean, intriguing. So that's the what's it item number one.
And can anybody explain what the clamp is on the candlestick? Is that I can even go out in the yard pick I can even go out in the yard and find the rush to put it in. Oh, it's supposed to It's a rush lamp. It's a rush. What would you do? So the
rush is is long and hollow. Yeah. And once it's dried, it's kind of like a sponge inside. And they actually made a rod iron pan that was the same shape to lay them in. And they put grease, bear fat or something. Yeah. And the the the
um it would absorb. Sure. And then the rush would and then you would dry them and you'd clip them in here and use it as a candle. Uhhuh. So that was a second light that would hold it would go this way. oil or something like that. No, it
would it would be the rush. The the rush that goes wild. It's about this long and it's hollow. It's not hollow. It's like spongy inside. I'll bring some in and give it to you if you want. So you can And yeah, once it was soaked in the tallow or the grease,
they could put it they put it in here like this and light one end. Huh. When they needed more light or or even just a pinch of light. This was to light it. No, that was just like a backup. This was a candle holder. That little one would probably give you enough light to
get what you get done and then it would go out because they didn't last very long. I've made them, but I made them with I made it with wax. I didn't use So that's that's beautiful. I have a a replica one. Um Yeah, that's beautiful. But I'll I'll bring some rush
in so you'll have it for Okay. Okay. Cool. Cool. Okay. All right. That concludes the historical commission agenda.