01/13/2015 BOARD OF LIBRARY TRUSTEES Minutes

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Plymouth 4001h Anniversary The Plymouth 400 is a not-for-profit civic organization established to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the landing of the Mayflower in Plymouth in 2020. Its aim is to honor both Pilgrims and the Native Peoples through a commemoration that is bicultural and both historically accurate and culturally inclusive. As their website notes: "The 400 Commemoration is the latest in a long series of events honoring both these worthy people and the Native Peoples who facilitated the successful planting in Plymouth of the seed that grew into the United States of America." The commemoration kicked off with a gala event in December at the Plymouth Public Library attended by several hundred in which a traveling exhibit called "Captured 1614" was first displayed — and where it will remain until March 2015. The display will add one panel each year until 2020_ The traveling exhibit consists of five portable panels that total @ 15-16 feet in length, 5 feet in depth and 11 feet high. The panels include three touch screens that contain interactive videos. The exhibit is transported in an SUV and takes a two -person crew @ two -hours to erect and/or dismantle_ During the summer of 2015 the 1614 exhibit will be on the Cape and the Vineyard in various libraries and venues. The 400 Committee would like to display this exhibit at the Mashpee Public Library for @ three weeks to a month (from just after July 4th to about 2-3 August) — beginning shortly after the Wampanoag Powwow, where it will be on display. The Mashpee display would commence with a gala kick-off evening event in July at the library, which will be widely publicized and expected to attract an audience similar in size to the recent Plymouth event. The 400 Committee will coordinate and sponsor this event. The library will be asked to pay for the set-up, which will be minimal. We would contact Roche Bros. to see if they would become involved with donating food for the event. Initial point of contact is Linda Coombs, Tel: (508) 477-7240. Linda is a member of the 400 Committee and a museum educator who has worked for the Boston Children's Museum, and the Plymouth Plantation, where she was the associate director of the Wampanoag Indigenous Program. She is currently the program director of the Aquinnah Cultural Center on Martha's Vineyard. She is highly regarded and often a speaker and participant in university and other cultural events and symposiums throughout New England.