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project by pulveriz- of his mother.Other items donated by wafter Dardano,
<br /> We began the Red Brook Road
<br /> ing i
<br /> 1.4 miles of roadway and nstalled 18 sets of Pauline Hicks, Louise Hinds, Lucinda Lashley, Hazel
<br /> drain
<br /> The road was graded and compacted with•sev- Oakley, Muriel Readel, Marie Scalley, Mr. and Mrs.
<br /> laimed material in con unc- Peter Sloane Joan Avant Tavares and Mildred wood
<br /> eral thousand tons of rec }
<br /> flan
<br /> with the Mashpee Water District placing 2,000 included: a second hand cancelled stamp from
<br /> feet of water main. 5,040 feet of the road was paved Popponesset Beach post office,photographs of former
<br /> with 2
<br /> inches of modified binder. Work will be fin- post office buildings and the employees and post cards
<br /> fished this Spring with the placementof the final of Camp Farley, Popponesset Beach and Mashpee
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<br /> as halt course, completed aprons, loaming and seed- scenes.
<br /> ing. In addition to this material John woodruff, of the
<br /> We earned $35,522.50 providing road construction woodruff Gallery, contributed several charcoal
<br /> that was returned to the General Fund.
<br /> sketches of the postmasters and Charles Kenney, Jr.
<br /> painted watercolors of the post office buildings.
<br /> An exhibit of this collection is on display at the
<br /> Mashpee Post Office. The Chamber of Commerce
<br /> donated $50.00 to the Commission to help defray
<br /> Report of the
<br /> • some of the cost of hanging the exhibit, Postmaster
<br /> Commission s ce and John and AmHistorical Arthur Flynn offered the a y
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<br /> Woodruff donated their time, talent and materials to
<br /> hang this material.
<br /> To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and The Mashpee Historical Commission participated
<br /> the Citizens of the Town of Mashpee: in the first annual Cape Heritage week in June with an
<br /> open house and slide show at the Mashpee Archives.
<br /> The Mashpee Historical Commission was re-estab- Robert Maxim, postmaster of Forestdale and a
<br /> fished in September of 1984 and was fortunate to have
<br /> P i Mashpee resident, was the guest speaker.
<br /> the former Librarybuilding turned over to the p
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<br /> Commission at a Town Meeting in 1985 to establish a
<br /> The Commission, cooperation eratian with the Chamber
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<br /> Town Archives. of Commerce, held the second annual lecture series
<br /> MASHPEE OUR TOWN at the Captain Bellamy
<br /> The Commission was reorganized to "preserve, meetinghouse in the Popponesset Marketplace. Mr.
<br /> rector historical features of the pp
<br /> e and maintain the h Maxim, the guest speaker, provided the audience with
<br /> Town of Mashpee"; the Commission, now in its personal and entertaining account of the Postal
<br /> year, has spent a tremendous emendous amount of ape g
<br /> System in Mashpee.
<br /> VOLUNTEER time collecting documents, books,
<br /> photographs and oral histories to achieve this goal. Commission extends its gratitude to the New
<br /> The C
<br /> This ear, a research stud begun in 1992, b
<br /> Seabu Corporation for the use of the Meetinghouse.
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<br /> Joanne Ferragamo, a commission member, resulted in
<br /> More than i00 visitors including students and
<br /> thepublication of "'Mashpee 02649 - the People, the teachers from the Falmouth High School, students
<br /> Buildings, the Story of the Mashpee Postal Service". from the Mashpee Summer Institute, residents,
<br /> A three hundred dollar grant from the Mashpee researchers and authors came to the Archives. One
<br /> Cultural Council, and monies from the Commission's
<br /> guest came from as far away as New Zealand.
<br /> donation account financed this project.
<br /> A special guest who visited the Archives In August
<br /> Within three months of publication, receipts from p Assistant from the
<br /> p � p was Laura Nash, the Curatorial
<br /> the sale of the book covered the printing costs, and Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the
<br /> profits are now added to the donation account. The
<br /> American Indian.
<br /> books are available at the Archives, the Chamber of
<br /> Commerce, Brown and Clark Booksellers and Cape
<br /> The Mashpee Archives received a collection of
<br /> Cod Book Center
<br /> photographs from the Smithsonian, and Ernestine
<br /> Gray' a Commission member, is gathering additional
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<br /> During this period, items were several valuable idata about the subjects. Mrs. Gra explained to Mrs.
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<br /> donated to the Archives. Payson Jones, Jr. son of the how she initiated a cooperative program with
<br /> late PriscillaNash
<br /> Jones,the first postmaster at Popponesset Walford managing editor of the "Enterprise",
<br /> Beach d Janice g gdens for
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<br /> donated the Popponesset Beach hand cancelled •
<br /> PP to publish the photographs and ask the readers
<br /> stamp, a first day post card (1949), and a photograph information.
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