Minutes 2009/06/17

LITTLE NINE PARTNERS HISTORICAL SOCIETY
BOARD MEETING 6/17/09

In attendance: Ann Simmons, Betty Isler, Bob Hedges,Gail Kelly, Pat Mara, Jim Mara, Frank Bossolini, Scott Chase, Rod Davis, Dave Guernsey

Finance Report: End of the year report submitted by Barbara Chase for the annual report. Our current total balance is $25,156.09

Membership: Helen Netter's obituary has been added to the minutes

Collections: Rod has brought up the need to make a list of the different locations of where our items are stored. It was agreed that this is important. Also Rod is looking into the possibility for a student doing an Internship for the purpose of cataloging our collection.

Correspondence: There was a follow up letter from the Federal Square group asking about our donation of the canon. The Board is in agreement that some arrangement can be formed to allow for the canon to be on display however we are unable to donate to "an individual" so the details of this need to be discussed with the Federal Square group.

Property: Received a quote from Crown Gas on two gas heaters. Jim will go ahead and get these ordered. Discussion on the immediate need to repair the fireplace on the west side. Dave will contact Allan Budd to meet with the Brush House Committee ASAP. Dave will oversee the finishing of the bathroom.
It was a pleasure to be able to hold our meeting in the Graham Brush House.

Next meeting July 15th, 2009 with be our annual meeting and it will be at the Graham Brush House at 7:30 pm

Submitted By Ann Simmons

cas@fairpoint.net

Minutes 2008/09/17

LITTLE NINE PARTNERS HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Sept. 17, 2008 Board Meeting
Attended by: Ann Simmons, Barbara Chase, Scott Chase, Betty MacFarlane Isler, Jim Mara, Pat Mara, Rod Davis, Dave Guernsey, Frank Bossolini, Gail Kelly, Dyan Wapnick, Bob Hedges

Minutes: No minutes were presented

Financial Report submitted by Barbara Chase
Jim has sent in application to the Berkshire Foundation for a matching fund for a heating system.

Correspondence: Thank you note from the Muscular Dystrophy Association for our donation in Memory of Edward Wapnick

Committee Reports:
Town Historian: One day seminar held at DCC in Pk on fundraising on Oct. 24th. Ann & Dyan will look into this.

Publications: Library requested a copy of our DVD/Old movies.
Ann gave Jim a copy to give to Library

Program: Town Decorating Day 11/29/08 -discussed having the GB House open to the public from 2-5pm & serve some refreshments. Clean up day @GB House planned for
Oct. 18th 9 am.
Ag Fair-sending in a donation

Property: finishing up the back room. Painter coming in & Dave will contact Simmons Plumbing on roughing in the bathroom. There has been some vandalism around property-Jim has notified local police to keep an eye out.
Submitted by Ann Simmons

Minutes 2008/03/19

BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING LNPHS MARCH 19,2008

ATTENDED: Ann Simmons, Betty Isler, Dave Guernsey, Rod Davis, Jim Mara, Pat Mara,Frank Bossolini, Bob Hedges

Minutes: There were no minutes from the Feb. 2008 meeting

Finance Report: No report

Correspondence: Thank you notes were sent to Mashomack & John Sprague thanking them for their
generosity for our Movie Night.

Committee Reports:
Town Historian-Scott had sent a letter to Arlene Paterson on her interest with our society & invited her to attend a meeting. rod is going to extend the invitation to her for a meeting in the near future.

Publications: Discussion on looking into getting an ISBN# for Lyons-chase book to see about selling on Amazon or other sites. Ann is checking with the printer of the books to see what he may be able to offer.

Program: The Movie Night was great success-standing room only.

Property: Discussion on hiring a carpenter to do the work in the kitchen area of Brush House. Dave, Bob & Jim will meet to go over the scope of work. Dave is going to pick up windows from Herrington's. Committee will have a scope of work and some suggestions for carpenter for April meeting. Important to have someone who has their own insurance.

New Discussion: Dyan asked if we are going to offer a graduating senior the scholarship. it was decided to continue offering. Dyan made a motion to increase the amount offered: Motion-The scholarship award to a graduating senior from Stissing Mt. High School be $200. Motion was seconded by Rod, a vote was taken . The motion was passed.

Meeting was adjourned.
Next meeting April 16, 2008

Submitted by: Ann Simmons

Minutes 2007/12/19

LNPHS BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING
DEC. 19. 2007

IN ATTENDANCE: Ann Simmons, Jim Mara, Scott Chase, Dyanne Wapnik, Barbara Chase, Dave Guernsey, Frank Bossolini

Motion made by Dyanne , seconded by Rod to accept the minutes with the following correction for spelling-change to Petterson

Finance Report-Submitted by Barbara Chase. Our total balance as of 12/18/07 is $39,952.61

Correspondence-From Web Site-Received a letter from Moravian Historical Society stating that they have added to their site a page on the Shekomeko Monument. This letter was from David Freeman Chairman of the Historic Sites & Monuments Committee Moravian Historical Society

Town Historian-some further discussion needed on the request from Ms. Petterson for Pine Plains Town Historian. It was suggested by Jim to have her become a member and she can provided us with some assistance in research etc.

Membership-Jim & Barbara will do some updating on paid members

Program-Will be having a Movie Nite at Mashomack on 2/16/08
Ann is having DVD’s made up and working on a flyer. More to come

Property-Thanks to Jim for the lites on G/B house & Betty for the wreath for Xmas decorating.

Submitted by: Ann Simmons Next meeting Jan. 16, 2008

Our Town, Our Voices

L9PHS again has copies of this booklet for sale, here: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nylnphs/_ancillaries/pl.htm#ot

This popular item, subtitled /Interviews with Residents in and around Pine Plains, New York/ had sold out the first printing in January. A second print has been done.

-R.

Minutes 2007/10/17

Little Nine Partners Historical Society
Minutes 10/17/07

Members Present: Ann Simmons, Pat and Jim Mara, Gail Kelly, Dave Guernsey, Bob Hedges, Rod Davis, Betty Isler, Barbara Chase, Elaine Hutchinson

A motion to accept the minutes with corrections was made by Elaine and seconded by Betty. Correction: Minutes stated some items were moved from storage to Brush House - correction - all items were moved from storage to Brush House. We no longer have the storage unit.

Finances: Currently $39,211.17.

Discussion regarding the school house on Rt. 199. Barbara has not had any response from her letters to Sen. Liebell or Molinaro. Ann and Barbara will follow up with another letter with copies to Elliott Spitzer - to determine the ownership of the school house. It is currently on State property.

Pictures were donated to LNPHS from the Sadler Family. Hattie Sadler was a former town clerk many years ago. The pictures will be labeled and put into our collections. Rod asked that we make a motion to accept the photos with intent to have some of the photo's on the website. Ann made that motion, Rod seconded. Nine members agreed, Jim was opposed.

Dale Flansburg contacted Ann and would like a copy of the post card of the Mt. Ross bridge under construction. Dale is involved with the history of the railroad and had worked with Betsy and Jay on the Mt. Ross book.

Sales on the books are slow. We will ask Rosey if she could do another book signing, possibly again at the Hammertown Barn prior to the Holidays.

Discussion on the Graham Brush House. Where are we and where are we going. Dave put plastic over the logs on the SW corner of the fireplace. He agreed to put plastic and tighten up the windows/doors for the winter. Our next steps would be major fund raising to tighten up the house so we can begin to put in a heating system in the spring. We would like to be able to have an open house during Memorial Day - Betty has agreed to chair this event. All of us will need to pitch in and help get the house ready. Unfortunately, we had hoped to do something at the house during town decorating day over Thanksgiving weekend. That was unrealistic. Discussion followed regarding paying people to complete some of the work - our volunteer group is spread very thin. Any thoughts, ideas?

We are still planning our program in January/February at Mt. Cow. A newsletter will be sent out for this event.

Submitted by,

Elaine Hutchinson

*****OUR NEXT MEETING WILL BE WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 28th*****

Minutes not "official" until approved at next meeting

Minutes 2006/12/13

Little Nine Partners Historical Society
Minutes of December 13, 2006 Meeting

Members Present: Scott Chase, Rod Davis, Frank Bossolini, Jim and Pat Mara, Dave Guernsey, Barbara Chase, Ann Simmons, Bob Hedges and Elaine Hutchinson

Meeting called to order at 7:35

Jim Mara made a motion to accept the minutes of previous meeting, Scott Chase seconded the motion.

Finances: We currently have $34,764 in our account. This past month was a positive cash flow thanks to Rosey's book. A special thanks to Hammertown Barn for the opportunity to have the book signing. We did sell approximately 320. There are 17 left. Barbara will check with Rosey regarding the cost of reprinting of the book, and also to look into changing the copyright. After books are reprinted, Barbara and Ann will take them to the local book stores.

Barbara reported Membership donations = $235.00. No major donations have been received.

Ann received information on a seminar on Oral Histories from Dutchess County Department of History. Ann passed it along to Rosey Chase who will try to attend.

Old coins found at the Graham Brush house were given to Guy Alonge (coin collector). At the present time the 1880 cent is worth $15-25; the 1802 is worth $25-45.

We discussed a mid winter program. Possibly a historical slide show. We need to view the slides. Rod did take home the slides to view and to try out his new scanner. Rod has slides # 1-86. We are in search of the video. If any member knows of where it could be please contact Ann. If we can get a program together, Charlie Norman has offered Mt. Cow to host this event.

We are still waiting for a quote from Bill Grayson regarding the shed. Jim informed us of a building 16 x 32 of historical value on Stissing Mt. road. Barbara will speak with Louisa Grassi regarding this building. It was designated school house #13. This might possibly be used as a shed, instead of buying another one. Bob Hedges will take a look at the house to see if structurally we can move it. We need to look into costs of moving the house.

Minutes not "official" until approved at next meeting

Minutes 2007/09/16

----- Original Message -----

From: robert isler

To: anne simmons

Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 9:24 AM

Subject: LNPHS Board Meeting Minutes October 19, 2007

Members Present: Gail Kelly, Dyan Wapnick, Jim Mara, David Guernsey, Scott Chase, Ann Simmons, Rod Davis, Betty MacFarlane Isler.

Gail Kelly made a motion to accept minutes from previous meeting, Betty MacFarlane Isler seconded the motion.

FINANCE REPORT : (B. Chase submitted complete report)

Checking Account Balance: $1, 682.60

Money Market Account $37,419.97

CORRESPONDENCE:

Rod Davis will place Rosemary Lyons book on our Web Site available for sale.

Thank you Rod Davis for a great job on our "Blog"

COMMITTE REPORTS:

COLLECTIONS:

Several Items were moved out of storage to the Brush House, thanks Scott,Jim & Bob.

TOWN HISTORIAN:

MEMBERSHIP:

PUBLICATIONS:

PROGRAM:

Although the LNPHS could not participate in this years FFA AG Fair, a donation will be sent.

NEW DISCUSSION:

Jim Mara, Bob Hedges, Dave Guernsey, and Scott met to discuss work schedule for the Brush House, they have put together a schedule of work to be completed before this winter.

Fundraising will be a priority for the Board Members this year.

Next Meeting, October 17th.

Minutes not "official" until approved at next meeting

Minutes 2007/05/16

Little Nine Partners Historical Society

Minutes May 16, 2007

Members Present: Scott Chase, Betty Isler, Bob Hedges, Rod Davis, Barbara Chase, Ann Simmons, Elaine Hutchinson, Frank Bossolini (at 8:20)

A motion was made to accept the minutes of 4/18/07 by Rod, seconded by Scott

Finances - A check in the amount of $2,500 was received by the Durst Corporation. Our current balance is $40,858.16. Ann sent out a thank you to the Durst Corp. Barbara has paid our storage rental until the end of the year. If we move out sooner, we will be refunded.

Ann had information regarding a seminar at Marist College on May 25^th if anyone was interested. Also there was a meeting in the Ancram Town Hall on 5/18 at 7:00 p.m. The NY State Preservation office was holding a meeting on useful services and technical preservation. Frank was going to try to attend.

We reviewed the collections policy. We changed #I (1) to read The discovery and preservation of whatever may related to the history of the Little Nine Partner Patton. Under item IV Add: photo copy all collections. Also in reviewing this policy we need to have 5 members on the collections committee. It was recommended that Pat Mara, Betty Isler, Gail Kelly, Sandra David and Frank Bossolini, be the committee. Any concerns/questions please call Ann.

Helen Robinson would like to donate a twin size rope bed to LNPHS.

Publications: Ann received an e-mail from Rosey questioning when we will be reprinting the books. It will cost $100 more than what we paid. Scott will call Rosey to go ahead and order the 300 copies.

Program: Our Annual picnic will be held on July 1^st. Ann needs reports from Barbara (finance), Rod (website) Bob (Graham Brush update) Blurb on Rosey's book/book signing NO LATER THAN JUNE 13^th, so the newsletter can go out.

Picnic will be at Graham Brush House. Bring a dish to share.

Property update: Bob picked up lumber for flooring at Gent for $276.48.

It was discussed that next year maybe we can coordinate a yard sale along with the garden club plant sale. All members are encouraged to come to our storage unit on North Main St. on Thursday May 31^st at 7:00 p.m. to make decisions on what to save and what to "yard sale" RAIN DATE June 4^th. Please help if you can.

Frank has been researching putting our "Books" which are at the bank on microfilm. He is waiting for them to put a package together of costs/options. Thank you Frank.

Scott made a motion to adjourn the meeting, seconded by Barbara.

NEXT MEETING JUNE 20th

Minutes not "official" until approved at next meeting