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Also in May, Frank Lord, Schoolmaster for the As promised by the Town Manager, a furniture One Room Schoolhouse,again provided tours to the 7 order approved at October 2015 Town Meeting was classes of Quashnet School third graders, their processed,completing the renovations of the Archives chaperones and teachers. Each class also visited the Building that began in January 2012. Bookcases for Wampanoag Indian Museum,passing by the Mashpee the first floor and a high density rolling storage system River herring run as the herring continued into Wakeby- for the basement were expected to arrive in late Mashpee Lake. The students learned how children lived December early January.Once installation is complete, in Mashpee in the 1850's, attending school, farming, DPW will bring the file cabinets and remaining boxes fishing and hunting. Many families from New England in storage to the Archives Building for the Commission and beyond visited during the summer.The schoolhouse to begin the New Year in clean attractive highly closed for the winter on October 15. efficient new surroundings. The Commissioners are most appreciative and grateful to Town Administration On July 16th Kathleen Mahoney,Director of the and employees for making the Archives Building an Mashpee Public Library arranged a visit and attractive,comfortable repository and research facility assessment of Town records stored in the Library, for Townspeople and researchers. Thank you. Clerk's Office and Archives Building by Rachel Onuf, state Roving Archivist, through a grant from the Respectfully and gratefully submitted, Massachusetts State Historical Records Advisory Nancy K. Soderberg,Chairman Board (MSHRAB) and Massachusetts Board of Avamarie Costello Library Commissioners. Following a day-long visit to Brian A.Hyde Mashpee, Ms. Onuf submitted a 14-page summary Frank J. Lord describing environmental conditions and cost effective Rosemary Burns Love methods to manage Town records, train employees in Gordon Peters archiving techniques, develop electronic finding aids, Joan Tavares Avant monitor and improve storage conditions,and identified organizations and available funding to scan pertinent documents and photos. In July,new Town Manager,Rodney Collins and Report of the Selectman Liaison John Cotton attended a Commission Mashpee Housing meeting and both pledged support to the Commission, Authority in particular providing bookcases and shelving for the Archives Building following approval at October Town Meeting. Avamarie Costello joined the Commission in To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and the July filling our last vacancy and met with Mr. Collins Citizens of the Town of Mashpee: and Mr. Cotton. As a college professor of American history,Ms.Costello brings valuable insights and skills Mission Statement to our Board. It is the mission of the Mashpee Housing Authority to remain committed to working In August,Ramona Peters,Mashpee Wampanoag cooperatively with community,state,federal,and local NAGPRA Officer and Tribal Archivist invited the officials to provide decent,safe,and affordable housing Commissioners to attend a 2-day gravestone repair to the citizens of Mashpee in an atmosphere of dignity workshop arranged by her office to be held at the and respect. Indian Meeting House burial grounds and presented by a widely respected gravestone conservator Jonathan Purpose Appell of Connecticut. Three Commissioners spent The Mashpee Housing Authority is a duly two days learning about materials and techniques and organized public housing authority,created under MGL participated in repairs to centuries-old weathered, Chapter 121B. The Authority provides income-based broken grave stones, how to lift and repair without rental units to the elderly,disabled,and families. The damage to stones and workers,evolution of traditional Authority administers Federal and State housing designs, availability and choice of stone, and a first- programs under the direction of the Authority's hand introduction to Mashpee's earliest families. Executive Director,with the oversight of a five-member 105