Concord
Jottings
Concord
Jottings
Winter 2004
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Here we are almost ready to welcome in 2005 - where did the days go? When you're growing up and waiting to be the 'magical ' age of 12 or 16 or 18 or even 21, time seems to creep. All of a sudden time flies and it is another year! Do you think we're getting older?
This has been an exciting year of achievement for us. We now own the Franklin Street property and the first week in December saw the old Ice House demolished, under Mike Hannon's supervision. Now we're ready to move on and start working on our 'Country Store'. Once it is finished we can get out a lot of our properties and antiques and complete our dream. We 'thank' Shirley Perkins for remembering us with "country" things.
The shed and corn crib are in place and our trees from Hill's Tree Farm are doing nicely. Jenny has planted lots of daffodils, that we got from Mr. McCarville's office. They're sure to be beautiful come Spring.
POSTER SHOW
If you missed our World War Poster Show, it was wonderful. There was standing
room only for the Veteran's Day program and we extended it for two days the
following weekends. Meibohms from East Aurora framed the posters that Don Orton
had selected and they were beautifully done. You will soon see them hanging in
different buildings around town. We also have a fantastic CD that shows all of
our posters.
Starting in 2005, thanks to Pat Schrader, we will be giving you information about the artists of our posters.
The Batterson's Union Block Building was a wonderful place for our show. We thank everyone that helped - it was an all out effort for our members and we thank everyone that helped. It was co-operation that did it! We also seem to have lots of talent in our group.
NEW BOOK
Bill Crawford from Austin, Texas spent some time in Springville recently and
just sent a copy of his new book "All American - The Rise and Fall of Jim
Thorpe". It will be placed in the Lucy Bensley Library for anyone interested in
it.
THANK YOU
A special 'thank you' to Jeanne Fornes for donating a sign for our trees and the
fantastic job on the "sandwich board" for the Poster Show.
PIE CONTEST
The Pie contest we hosted for Homecoming Weekend, headed by our Grace and
Gertrude. Cheers to several of our members that baked. Winners gift certificates
were donated by the Chamber of Commerce.
COOKIE SALE
Again the Ladies and Gentleman of Concord Historical Society came
through with wonderful cookies and we were sold out around ten o'clock. One man
said the Presbyterian Fried Cakes and the Historical Society Cookie Sales are
the best things in town!!
MORE TREASURES
Martha Dygert Smith gave a recent collection of things for our Library and
Museum. They included both Ethel and Augusta Vaughn's birthday books that could
almost be called diaries. She also gave us two pictures of old G.I. - one that
seems to be very different. Last, but not least, Dr. Mark Brooks medical case
that he carried on home visits. there are still pills in it! (He was the Doctor
when I was born!)
FESTIVE WINDOWS
Be sure to check out Home-Wear, Springville Hardware's Christmas Windows.
Sue and Toni have outdone themselves again. Oh yes, some things may look a bit
familiar!!!
Also don't forget to check out the display case at the Hulburt Library and also
at the 'upstairs' showcase at the Town Hall.
2005
Our first meeting in 2005 will be January 12th. Please come and
help us plan the next year. I hope we haven't missed any startling news but if
we have chalk it up to the fact that we're busy people. As Grace Gentner says
"If you're bored in Springville, its your own fault."
P.S.
Dues for 2005 are due to: Elsie Smith
Seniors & Students $ 5.00
PO Box 30
Regular members $10.00
East Concord, NY 14055
Life members $50.00
Merry Christmas - Happy
New Year
From Margaret and Lee
Hang up your stocking and hope for the best!!!