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abandoned as a regulation. The Manufactured <br /> Housing Community/Mobile Home Park Community Report of the <br /> a <br /> Regulation was passed by the board to augment the Historical Commission <br /> state regulation. <br /> P <br /> The Barnstable County Department of Health To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and the <br /> and Environment provided the summer bathin beach Citizens of the Town of Mashpee: L <br /> 9 <br /> sampling labor and administrative reporting to the <br /> town and state. There were two marine and one fresh- The Mashpee Historical Commission (MHQ F <br /> water beach closings due to high bacterial count in maintains the Mashpee Archives at 13 Great Neck C <br /> Mashpee. The fresh-water closing occurred at the Road North under the supervision of Lee Gurney, <br /> town landing on Santuit Pond. The marine closings Chairman. The Archives is open Mondays and <br /> occurred at the Mashpee Neck Road town landing and Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. during the month8 <br /> at the Nantucket Sound side of the spit at the end of of April through December. <br /> Wading Place Road. Santuit Pond continued for a <br /> third year with a large algae bloom that forced the clo- During the past year, Commission member <br /> sure of the pond to recreational swimming from early Frank Lord, President of the Mashpee One-Room ' <br /> August to the end of September. Schoolhouse Preservation Council, welcomed maq <br /> visitors to the schoolhouse, which is located next to <br /> In conclusion, the wide range of public health the Archives building, and he conducted tours for C <br /> concerns necessitates for public health to be a funded, Mashpee schoolchildren as well as for students of <br /> organized and coordinated response. We would also <br /> neighboring towns. Frank works closely with <br /> like to commend our health agents and administrative Mashpee high School teachers, involving students in t( <br /> staff for their professionalism, conscientiousness and projects relating to Mashpee's history. <br /> commitment to the residents of our town. v <br /> Commission member Rosemary Burns wrote an n <br /> Respectfully submitted, in depth history, starting with Mashpee's first library e <br /> Kalliope Egloff, Chair in 1891, titled The Libraries of Mashpee. In conjunc- <br /> Lucy Burton, Co-Chair tion with the celebration of Popponesset Inn's 70(h <br /> Burton Kaplan, Clerk birthday,Rosemary produced an exhibit and published s <br /> a history of Popponesset and the Inn. <br /> V <br /> Commission member Gordon Peters continues <br /> his work with the Archives'photo collection. <br /> Commissioners are reviewing the collection of C <br /> books at the Archives in the Ann Tanneyill Library,a <br /> non-circulating research library, to determine which C <br /> books might be relocated to the Mashpee Public N <br /> Library, where they would be available for circulation <br /> among the public. <br /> The book Mashpee 02649 the People, the <br /> Buildings and the Story of the Mashpee Postal Service <br /> written by former MHC Chairperson Joanne M, I <br /> Ferragamo and published by MHC in 1993, by <br /> request, has been sent to the Smithsonian Natiofl� <br /> Postal Museum in Washington D.C. <br /> Additional Commission members and volunteers <br /> are needed to continue the mission of the Maslipee <br /> Historical Commission, which is to preserve and <br /> 94 <br />