07/06/2023 HISTORICAL COMMISSION Minutes

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-2- be installed on Great Neck Road' North and Main Street (Route 13,0), with the approval of the Conservation Commission. He will work with Catherine to get them installed. He is also working with Sarah Korjef to get the Schoolhouse put cane the National Register. It needs to be re-registered after being moved from the {old Indian Meetinghouse site in 2008. Richard mentioned that he has found an old clock that he wants to install in the schoolhouse, but it needs repair work. He is also working on deleting the old' webpage for the schoolhouse, and then updating the information on the webpagle. Richard worked with Naiorni Lopez Walker who has cleaned all the monuments in the Lakewood Cemetery, and he is working with Baker Memorial in Falmouth who said they could properly straighten or resetl the headstones. Richard has had new signs made up for Schoolhouse tours which Pedro and Richard will be conducting both on Mondays and Saturdays during July and August from 1 1:00am- 2:00pm. Nancy donated a book to our library entitled The Story of the "First Encounter" at Nauset, which references the Mashpee Wampano,ag tribe. Ava also donated a picture book called Creating Cape Cod which she received as a thank you gift from Heritage Museums & Gardens of Sandwich. We had loaned the Museum our picture of the Wigwam motel to be part of their exhibit on Cape Cod as a vacation destination for the 400 years celebration in 2020, which all Cape Cod towns had to cancel because of the Pandemic. We have sent a letter to the Tribe to ask for their comments on the renaming of the Ancient BurialGrounds, Richard: has talked to the office of the BOS who may be able to handle these name changes, or if not possible, this article may have to be put on the Warrant for the next Town, Meeting, New Business Ava asked if we had any nominations for the Preserving Mashpee's History Award for 2022. We had an interesting discussion about several people who have made contributions, and Rosemary suggested that we recognize Mark Rosbach, and three students who rebuilt the woodshed for the Mashpee One-Room Schoolhouse in the spring of 2023. Motion was made to recognize the Instructor and the three MMHS students, Brycen Feren, Tevin Mattis, and Andrew Weiner. The motion was seconded, and unanimously approved. We picked the date of Sunday, August 13th but we could change it if necessary. Richard nominated, Brian, Hyde as our Representative to the CPC and the Historic District, and Rosemary seconded it, and it was voted "unanimously, Brian agreed, to continue being on those two Commissions as the MHC Representative.