Historical Society Minutes
he Loudon Historical Society meeting was held September 07, 2016 7:00 pm
Attendees: Michele York, Stanley Prescott, Andrew Parrella, Dustin Bowles, Ashley Simonds, Lucy Gordon
We had a discussion about Old Home Days. People thought Old Home Days was not as populated as it normally is. But the group felt that the Historical Museum had numerous visitors. One thought, for next year, was to have members of the Society dress in Historical period costume. Another thought was to offer a drink (Switchel for example) to entice people to come into the Museum. One of the many visitors to the museum was Lois Scribner. She writes the Town Crier column for Canterbury in the Concord Monitor. She explained that Canterbury is updating their town history. LHS will invite Lois and other members of Canterbury to come and talk to us about their experiences in writing their town history.
LHS had our second Reminisce Day. We have decided that Reminisce Day should only be once a year. The feed back that we have received is positive. Although some members of the community are reluctant to speak as this program is recorded. We all decided that one of the points of Reminisce day was to get the town history recorded. If town members do not want to speak during the recording, possibly the person could write down their thoughts and turn the notes into LHS.
LHS is working on Oral Histories. Michele, Ashley, Stan and Andrew have all sat with and recorded memories from some of the Long-time residence of Loudon. There are still more to do.
Michele York attended the Select Board meeting on Sept 06. She was there to discuss the Boston cane. In order to be nominated for the Boston cane a person must be at least ninety years old and a Loudon Residence for twenty years. LHS will be suggesting to the Select Board guidelines for each nomination. We are suggesting a committee of the following: One member from the Select Board, The Town Clerk, One member from the Loudon Historical Society. The presentation of the Cane could take place on Town meeting Day.
We had a discussion about electing new officers for the year starting in October. The election are held every two years. Members of LHS have accepted nominations for positions. Voting will take place at the Annual October meeting.
LHS is starting to come up with ideas for what we can do for the Town's 250th anniversary. The anniversary will be here before we know it.
The next General meeting will be November 02, 2016.
Respectfully,
Lucy Gordon