Membership Renewal Time

Enclosed in this newsletter is your membership renewal form. Please continue to support HBGHS by filling in the form, enclosing a check and folding the form into an envelope!!

Note that there is a new category Life Member with a contribution of $1,000 or more. The money will be invested in an endowment fund with the income being used to maintain the goals of the Society.

We really appreciate your support and welcome you to visit us during Second Sunday Open Houses, Back Porch Concerts and Work Days every Monday.

Dean House Summer Projects

This summer we will be replacing the downspout on the corner of the house by the back door, repairing the wood under the railing on the northeast corner of the back porch and repairing/replacing the rotted wood in a window on the second floor. Can you help? We would especially like to find a volunteer carpenter. Call Bob Bean 222-5783

Judith Bodden entering data into PastPerfect with Gloria Simley and Ann Waidelich looking on

Recent Acquisitions

Ray & Helen Cattell

- Quilt made from men's suit fabrics, a potato & beet scoop fork (used for screening dirt from vegetables and handle corn without sticking into the cobs, according to a 1902 Sears Catalog), two baby dresses and a Kennedy Dairy Co. pick and button hook

Jim Kolb, Arrow Electric

- saw sharpening clamp

Helen & Richard Emery

- WLS Barn Dance Revival, folder includs videotapes, music scores and programs from the performances they created and presented at the Dean House and elsewhere

Merrillyn Hartridge & Lynn Casper

- set of 4 wooden chairs with cane seats from the Vroman House in Fitchburg. The Vromans were ancesters of Merrillyn and Lynnan

Alice Schuller

- nightgown worn by Alice's Aunt, Nora Stuckey

Dorothy Haines

- two fans, Dec. 28, 1944 issue of East Side News and Story of Madison by Thwaites

Shirley Homberg

- videotape of talk she gave at the Dean House Oct. 22, 1984 "Blooming Grove Then & Now"

We are looking for an old buggy whip for our 1871 restored sleigh. Do you have one you would like to donate?