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gave his life for his country in the Civil War. The hot summer and to extend the opening of the
<br /> Commission approach the Community Preservation schoolhouse into the fall. We received the support for
<br /> Committee for funding to survey the property,remove $19,680 and await approval at Town Meeting and hope
<br /> dead and large trees,install a wrought-iron fence,repair to have the system install by the summer season.
<br /> all gravestone and landscape the area. We received a
<br /> positive vote from the Committee to complete the We also have been working with Sarah Korfeff,
<br /> project for $42,438. Pending a positive town meeting the historical preservation specialist/planner for the
<br /> vote we hope to begin the work in the spring/summer Cape Cod Commission, to have the One-room
<br /> of 2022. Schoolhouse listed on Federal and Massachusetts
<br /> Registers of Historic Places. Because the One-room
<br /> One-room Schoolhouse Schoolhouse was moved from the Old Indian
<br /> Over the summer season, 177 individuals toured Meetinghouse and Burial Ground location,we need to
<br /> through Mashpee's historic 1831, One-room re-register it as a stand alone historic building moved
<br /> Schoolhouse, in addition to this year's new Mashpee to the Community Park in 2009.
<br /> schoolteachers. Tours were conducted by Nancy Second Annual Indigenous People Day Open
<br /> Soderberg as schoolmarm and Richard DeSorgher as House
<br /> schoolmaster.Due to the pandemic,we were unable to
<br /> host the third-graders at the Quashnet School, which Following pandemic protocol,the MHC was able
<br /> has been an annual school trip for the students and a to continue our annual Indigenous People Day Open
<br /> highlight for the One-room Schoolhouse. We hope to House. This year we had over 100 people attending on
<br /> we will be able to once again continue with the student October 11, 2021, as we opened up the Archives
<br /> tours next spring. building and the One-room Schoolhouse.The MHC put
<br /> on a display of photos, trophies, artifacts, etc. on
<br /> This year we hosted visitors from eight states Mashpee's history. A special display was featured
<br /> outside Massachusetts:North Carolina,South Carolina, showing the papers,photos and artifacts of Civil Rights
<br /> Maine,Maryland,Texas,Illinois,New Hampshire and icon and Mashpee resident, Ann Tanneyhill, who left
<br /> Rhode Island. While by far most of the visitors were her rich treasure trove of materials to the Mashpee
<br /> from Mashpee,we had guests from,Boston,Plymouth, Historical Commission. Ann was a true hero in the
<br /> Wilmington,Sandwich,Falmouth,Pocasset,Medfield, Civil Rights Movement. She was an extraordinary
<br /> Bridgewater,Buzzards Bay and Walpole. woman who, for more than 50 years, embodied the
<br /> essence of the National Urban League. She worked
<br /> New signage and posters were hung on the walls tirelessly behind the scenes for the cause of civil rights.
<br /> and new activities were added to the tour including Tanneyhill was also a confidant of nationally noted
<br /> writing with a quill pen and ink and having visitors try African-American author, Langston Hughes, who
<br /> their luck at playing with the rolling hoops,a children's thanked her profusely for encouraging him to write. A
<br /> recreational activity around 1850. copy of one of his poems,titled"Freedom Plow,"with
<br /> a handwritten signed note reading: "For Ann
<br /> We have been working with Mashpee building Tanneyhill who helped bring this poem into being,"was
<br /> inspector Dave Morris,town facilities supervisor Brad on display.Ann was also recognized as a former Chair
<br /> Tripp,DPW director Catherine Laurent,Mashpee High of the MHC and a Mashpee Library Trustee.
<br /> teacher Mark Rosback and his students at Mashpee
<br /> High School to rebuild the wood shed that was attached 2019 and 2020 Historic Preservation Awards
<br /> to the original school, when it was located in South
<br /> Mashpee. Work on the project will be taking place The MHC was pleased to announce the 2019 and
<br /> during the spring of 2022. 2020 Historic Preservation Awards. This is an annual
<br /> award given to an individual or organization
<br /> The MHC also approached the Community recognizing a special contribution to the preservation
<br /> Preservation Committee (CPC)for funding the or advancing the knowledge of Mashpee History.
<br /> installation of a HVAC heater/AC splitter for the Given covid,and scheduling issues,we plan to present
<br /> schoolhouse to enable students,visitors and tourists to the awards to Ramona Peters and the Native Land
<br /> comfortably take part in the one-hour tours during the Conservancy for their work obtaining the rights to the
<br /> Jefferson, Cleveland and Keith Islands in Mashpee-
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