10/1/2015 HISTORICAL COMMISSION Minutes

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A 16 Great Neck Road North Mashpee, Massachusetts 0264.9 Telephone - (508) 539-1438 MASHPEE HISTORICAL COMMISSION Minutes of Meeting — October 1, 2015 The Town of Mashpee Historical Commission meeting was called to order in the Archives 9;30 am by Nancy Soderberg, Chairperson. Commissioners present: Ava Costello, Frank Lord, Rosemary Burns Love, Gordon Peters, and Nancy Soderberg. Commissioners not present: Brian Hyde and Joan Tavares -Avant. Kathy Mahoney, Mashpee Public Library, was asked to reschedule, Her review of Roving Archivist Rachel Onuf's report was put back on the Agenda for the next meeting in November. Printed summary of Rachel's report are available. There was not enough time before the September 9 deadline for Kathleen to submit a proposal for additional funding for a return visit by Rachel to implement her suggestions. Frank Lord approved the Minutes from both the July 30"' and the September 3`d Meetings. Rosemary's book has been published and 1500 copies were delivered on Sept 1. They were distributed for sale at Market Street and Isaiah Thomas bookstores, Mashpee Public Library and New Seabury Country Club, On Sept 7 we were notified by Market ,Street Book that 4 customers returned their copies because the bindings cracked. (After spot checking several boxes, Rosemary notified Yolanda and Ed Lodi, Rock Village Publishing and they immediately initiated the reprinting and binding of all books at their expense. We recovered unsold books from resellers and returned 41 of the 46 boxes to the book printer who picked them up on Sept 8. The first 200 reprinted books were delivered by Yolanda and Ed Lodi on Sept 11 and we passed them to resellers. The Lodi's made a second delivery of 330 books on Sept 17, a third delivery of 495 books was made by Yolanda on Sept 24 and the final delivery of 495 is arriving this morning.) We replaced books given to selectmen, town department heads and contributors but'did not attempt to recover their defective copies. Customers who purchased from the Archives were called and given a replacement copy. Rosemary will be at the Mashpce Public Library on October 10, from 10:30am to 12:00 pm for a book signing. She is available to answer questions and with Ann has prepared a power point collection of photos from the book and some from the archives photo collection to cycle automatically on the library screen. She is leaving for Florida on October 17t", but Nancy and Ann will be at Town Meeting on October 19"' to sell books and run the power point display on a laptop. Rosemary may do another book signing at the Market Street Bookshop in December, possibly Dec 20th when she returns fi•om Florida. Ann will contact the bookstore to discuss. Rosemary will autograph a box of books before leaving. Whether or not books are sold, Rosemary is very grateful to have the opportunity to gather Mashpee history together. There has been no feedback yet on the book.