09/14/2023 HISTORICAL COMMISSION Minutes

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' wri ,., , we „� , ' , � . s f" :. , .d f1`1,, . 16 Great Neck Road North Mashpee, MA 02649 Telephone - (505) 539-1 4.38 MASHPEE HISTORICAL COMISSION Minutes of Meeting — September 14, 2023 Mashpee Historical Commission Meeting was called to order by Ava Costello at 4:09 pm. Commissioners Present: Ava Costello, Richard DeSorgher, and Nancy Soderberg, and Joan Tavares-Avant telephoned in. Rosemary Burns Love and Brian Hyde were not present. In addition Alex Mergele from The Enterprise was present. The Minutes of our meetings on July 6t" and August 17t"were unanimously approved. Richard reported that he has corresponded with Sara Korjef of Massachusetts Historical Commission trying to find out about our application to put the Mashpee One-Room Schoolhouse on the National Register of Historic Places in its present location. This has been in progress for two years. Richard has contacted the President of the Mashpee Garden Club to see if they would be interested in helping us with providing plants, possibly daffodils in spring and mums in the fall. Also, he is looking into placing two large urns at either end of the monument, and perhaps the Garden Club would take care of the planting to add some color. He asked for the Commission approval, and they were in agreement. Richard spoke on the placement of the new Quashnet River signs. The location will be determined by the Conservation Commission and Catherine, the DPW Director after the reconstruction project of Route 151 is finished. Richard is talking with the Veterans group at Southport. They have a large group of veterans and they are quite active; Jack Gardner is from the VFW, Larry Cron and Charlie Aftosmis, head of the group from Southport. Richard is interested in getting pictorial banners with photos of veterans posted on the light poles located in the Veterans Garden/Community Park area. The pictures displayed could be any veteran from Mashpee, different from those veterans names engraved on the Monument, who had to be registered from Mashpee. Richard is hoping to have some of these banners on display by Veterans Day of 2024. Richard mentioned that he had seen a poster at the Mashpee Post Office with several photos of Mashpee Veterans on view. Ava suggested that we should work on the list of Post Masters at the Mashpee Post Office.