AGENDA
Gill Historical Commission
Tuesday, September 17, 2024, 3:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Riverside Municipal Building
Call to order: _______ Notes: Meetings are being recorded, in part to help clarify minutes.
1. Welcome to guest Mimi Mayer, new co-editor of The Gill Newsletter
2. Approve minutes of July 19 and August 20, 2024
3. Treasurer’s Report and Business
Budget account as of August 20: Donation account:
4. Old and continuing business:
A. Update on basement inventory:
1. Two work sessions organizing surplus items in the RMB basement
2. Next steps: GHC votes on which items we don’t want and list them for the Selectboard, Selectboard offers items to town boards, unwanted items are
declared as surplus and are taken away or are set aside for a tag sale.
Our next steps = ??
B. Recruiting new members for GHC:
1. Outreach to…??
2. Potential role of historical “treats” in the newsletter (discussion with Mimi)
3. Other ideas
C. Update on Riverview St. parking and upkeep of abutment and Anchorage
5. New and current business:
A. GHC’s role in historic building RMB: use of more space?
B. Harvest Festival Plans, Sept. 29, 12 - 3:
1. setup 11:00, (staff = …………….…) close 3:00 – 3:30 (staff = ……….……….)
Review and add ideas.
2. Harvest Festival Activities:
a. Map of farms b. Gill History Trivia Quiz and adding questions c. Word Search pages (kids)
d. notebooks of students and old houses e. Name the band members (College Hop vinyl record)
f. Gill history books g. Town ideas for web articles or presentation for 2025
C. Update and suggestion on Indigenous (Pocumtuck and other) people in the Valley
1. Current research activities about King Philip’s War of 1676: musketballs from
the war/massacre and educational materials for the present and future
2. Suggestion for GHC: If you haven’t already done this, listen to the local audio
presentation called “New Light in the Dawnland” which I forwarded during the summer. See if you think we should offer this to Gill townspeople at the Town Hall in the fall or
spring of the coming year. The newest version has a farmland visual to view as people
listen.
D. Acquisitions for the collection
5. Other topics not listed at time of posting
Adjournment:
Next meeting: Tuesday, October 15, 2024, 3:00 – 5:00 p.m., RMB
