7/12/2018 HISTORICAL COMMISSION Minutes

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Town (� . ashpee -jisiaorrc-al C orrunrssiot r, 16 Great Neck Road North Mashpee, Massachusetts 02649 Telephone - (508) 539-1438 May 30, 2018 MASHPEE HISTORICAL COMMISSION Minutes of Meeting— July 12, 2018 The Mashpee Historical Commission meeting was called to order by Ava Costello, Chair, at 3:55 pm. Commissioners Present: Ava Costello, Richard DeSorgher, Rosemary Burns Love, Nancy Soderberg and Brian Hyde. Joan Tavares-Avant called in to attend the meeting, but did not vote on any motions. Commissioners not Present: Joan Tavares-Avant Rosemary moved to approve the minutes from our Meeting on May 24, 2018. The motion was seconded by Nancy. Nancy moved to approve the minutes from our Meeting on March 2, and the motion was seconded by Richard DeSorgher. Richard reported that his work is continuing on researching names of Veterans of the Revolutionary War, both Wampanoags and other Mashpee residents. He is compiling the list so that the names can be engraved on a future Revolutionary War Monument to be placed in the Community Park. He is working on a preliminary plan of the expansion of the Community Park area and will attend Mashpee CPC meeting on August 2, 2018, to keep the CPC informed. Ava suggested that we need to have a meeting to discuss our presentation to the CPC, so we decided to hold a discussion meeting on Thursday, July 191 at 4:00pm. Richard informed us that a committee is being formed to work on the Master Plan for the Community Park area. The name of the committee is the Mashpee Community Garden Advisory Committee (MCGAC). The committee will consist of seven members and will be working closely with representatives from both the Mashpee Historical Commission and the Mashpee Historic District Commission. Richard went up to the Massachusetts State House in Boston on July 11, 2018, and photographed and printed out the Mashpee Annual Reports which we do not have in our records. The reports include the Annual Reports for year ending 1874, 1875, January 1876 — January 31, 1877, Annual Report of the Selectmen and Treasurer for the year 1879-80, Annual Report 1879, 1880-81, 1881-2; Statement of Receipts and Expenditures for years ending 2.15, 1883, and 2-15-9884; Annual Reports for 1885, 1886-1892, and the Annual Reports for 1909— 1913. We had a visitor on July 2, 2018, Louise Hicks Wing, daughter of Frank Hicks. She had requested to take back for her family the framed badges of her father, Frank Hicks. It was