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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, March 18, 2024 Page 3 Society. Without your generosity, it would be very hard for us to continue sometimes. We have six speakers during the year. We also maintain our Historic House and grounds and the gardens. We also provide for our 3 grade tours. Last year after COVID, we had 365 students come through, all 4 Mayfield Elementary students there. It was great to have all 4 of them. Also, St. Francis came. They had not been here for two years. It was really nice to have them back. I appreciated it. The teachers did too. It was a nice break for them. I wanted to read you a couple of the letters they wrote. The teachers asked them to write what they liked about the tour. We got pictures from them. This is from Penelope from St. Francis: The log cabin had razors in the windows to keep the animals out. They wrote backwards for printing. Rich people used buttons to pay for stuff. This is from Ella at Lander: My favorite part was the school location. I liked seeing the rules from back then because it was really cool seeing the past and comparing it to the present. I also can't believe they whipped if the boys were mean to the girls. I also can't believe they had grades Kindergarten through 12th in one room. I have to say I had a great time at the Historical House. Thanks for spending your time with us. I also liked the log cabin. It was interesting to me because if you lived back then you probably would live in a log cabin and if you lived back then you wouldn't be alive today. If you were alive back then, you wouldn't have doors. Also bears can break into my house. If I lived back then, I might not have my family now. If I lived back then when it was snowing really hard, I would have to go to the bathroom and my restroom is in an outhouse or I would have to go to a pot inside the bedroom on the floor. If I lived back then I might have a different name. If I lived back then, I would not grow up the same way I do now. From Center Elementary: Dear Historical House: Thank you for teaching us how life was long ago. I really enjoyed it. I learned a lot of things. First thing I learned was that a gun was used to contact my neighbors. My favorite thing was the school because the desks were all connected. You had to go outside if you had to go to the toilet. I don't know why they liked that, but they liked that. We had quite a few enjoyable visits with the kids. It's one of our biggest highlights. We have 34 docents that we now trained to fill up the 91 timeslots we need for the 13 rooms over 7 different days, so it really takes a Village. We are hoping to open up during the summer weekends so we can get more people through the House. This year we will be purchasing a new riding mower, mulch for the garden and we will be fertilizing the grass. We are doing some maintenance to our basement. We also have to purchase supplies for our students to hand out to them. Some of the money coming in is from the quilt raffle sale tickets