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<p>[QUOTE="Bev aka thelmasstuff, post: 3829162, member: 23"]I was Vice President of the Orleans Historical Society until they decided to try and purchase a huge, expensive historic inn that we might have been able to buy with a donation from a benefactor, but in no way could we maintain. Heck, one of our Board members was paying a local guy $100 a month to mow in the summer and shovel in the winter. Local societies are usually shoestring operations. I left the Board, the sale didn't go through and now they call themselves CHO - Center for History and Culture in Orleans. (They apparently dropped the second C). They did finally spend the donation to do needed rehab to the old Meetinghouse and they had a second building down the hill that they've raised up and put storage underneath so it's on the same level as the Meetinghouse and they'll have more space now. I'm next town over from Marie. I also maintain membership in my home town Historical Society, the New Hampshire one and the Historical Society of Old Yarmouth because my friend works there and talked me into it. They are the most active on the Cape. They have events and operate two properties and they do trips to different places in the summer. They have an annual dinner with good speakers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bev aka thelmasstuff, post: 3829162, member: 23"]I was Vice President of the Orleans Historical Society until they decided to try and purchase a huge, expensive historic inn that we might have been able to buy with a donation from a benefactor, but in no way could we maintain. Heck, one of our Board members was paying a local guy $100 a month to mow in the summer and shovel in the winter. Local societies are usually shoestring operations. I left the Board, the sale didn't go through and now they call themselves CHO - Center for History and Culture in Orleans. (They apparently dropped the second C). They did finally spend the donation to do needed rehab to the old Meetinghouse and they had a second building down the hill that they've raised up and put storage underneath so it's on the same level as the Meetinghouse and they'll have more space now. I'm next town over from Marie. I also maintain membership in my home town Historical Society, the New Hampshire one and the Historical Society of Old Yarmouth because my friend works there and talked me into it. They are the most active on the Cape. They have events and operate two properties and they do trips to different places in the summer. They have an annual dinner with good speakers.[/QUOTE]
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