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Town of ashpee . <br /> "lCCEl CoP'i'ZmlsvIE3n <br /> 16 Great Neck Road North <br /> Mashpee, Massachusetts 02649 <br /> �°'ITelephone - (508) 539-1438 <br /> MASHPEE HISTORICAL COMMISSION <br /> Minutes of Meeting—April 11, 2019 <br /> The Mashpee Historical Commission meeting was called to order by Ava Costello, Chair, at <br /> 4:04 pm. <br /> Commissioners Present: Ava Costello, Brian Hyde. Richard DeSorgher, Nancy Soderberg and <br /> Joan Tavares-Avant <br /> Commissioner not Present: Rosemary Burns Love and Brian Weeden <br /> No available minutes for meetings on February 7 and March 14 - (Nancy lost the notes, will <br /> attempt to reconstruct.) Nancy volunteered to take notes for this meeting. <br /> Brian Hyde began summary of most recent CPC meeting with discussion of funding for <br /> sesquicentennial (150th anniversary) town celebrations. No CPC funding approved for events <br /> but request for $50K from available town funds to be placed on warrant for Annual Town <br /> Meeting (Article 12). Dates: Thursday, May 28 and all day Saturday, May 30th at Community <br /> Park. Ava may hire person to lead re-enactments, organize celebrity appearances, develop a <br /> time capsule, coordinate with John at Cape Cod 5 Cents Savings bank and Trish Kellinui with <br /> Grey Lady food service. Brian is researching biographies of 150 people/faces/pictures living and <br /> dead for play in full costume, regalia, bringing people to life. Hire a trolley/bus for tours around <br /> town to historic/significant sites wrapping up at High School with birthday cake. Engraved bricks <br /> (8x10 or 9x12 under $100) can be purchased to be installed (site to be decided, park?) Need to <br /> create a sesquicentennial logo and to develop content for various media (Facebook, Twitter, <br /> other media)to advertise events. 150th Celebration Subcommittee needs volunteers. <br /> Richard DeSorgher gave an update on the Historical Commission Speaker Series at Mashpee <br /> Public Library. On March 23, (postponed by weather from March 2). The second talk with movie <br /> was presented by Anya Suslova, scientist at Woods Hole Research Center on climate change <br /> and its impact on rivers, species, and environment in Mashpee and her home, Siberia. She <br /> presented a movie made with her colleague and fellow researcher Max Holmes, a US <br /> presidential advisor, on national and international environmental evidence of impacts. Talk was <br /> well attended with a large (-60) international audience. <br /> Third talk in series was presented on April 6 by Barbara F. Berenson, senior attorney at <br /> Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, discussing her research and 2018 book <br /> "Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement" describing the evolution of voting rights for- <br />