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Monroe Historical Society
Box 212
Monroe, CT 06468
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From Nancy Zorena, President, Monroe Historical Society Well, what can I say but we are very proud of the spectacular house tour last. Our home owners pulled out all the stops to make our house tour the most wonderful one ever! Karen and Julie were right - it had to be at night and it had to be a Christmas house tour! Thank you everyone for all the help to make this 50th anniversary celebration Christmas house tour awesome! We had people (over 160!) from New York, Greenwich, Stamford, Wilton, Newtown, Oxford, Easton, and Trumbull, Monroe and beyond. We have at least 4 homes offered for next year's Christmas House Tour so it looks like it may happen again! It was fitting that this year, our 50th anniverary year, we had so many vintage homes that spanned 3 centuries!
We especially want to thank the people that attended the evenings festivities and hope they enjoyed themselves as much as we did.
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We are having the roof replaced at the Meetinghouse
and on the Beardsley House we have had sills replaced, installed new basement windows, reinforced the basement door, built a new attic window and are working on a gutter system to keep water from the basement.
With all of our fund raising efforts, membership dues and gifts as well as the Carstenson grant, we are able to make repairs.
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Christmas Fair at the Old Schoolhouse |
A very special Thank You to Angie Valentino for all the work she did on the Christmas Fair. She arranged for volunteers, she oversaw much of the setup and she was there to make sure everything ran smoothly through the entire fair!!!
Volunteers Extraordinaire!
In alphabetical order - the people that made our Christmas events so successful year!
Joan Anderson, Dana and Kathy Balletta, Mike Bartek, Nicole Boyd, Karen and Shane Cardi, Jack Carrano, Ed and Marcia Coffey, Desiree Conway, Diane DiCamillo, Chris Ehlers, Kate Gutelius, Julia and Liska Gutierrez, Debbie Heim, Collen Holforty, Dottie Hossler, Doreen Hoyt, Josh and Nick Ianarone, Hugh Isner, Zaida June, Julia Juno, Frank Katz, Sheila Kolesar, Stephen Koumbaros, Louise Lind. Marion Lindsley, Erin Mahony, Millie Ohm, Bella Pisani, Meghan Price, Lorraine Reidel, Brenda Schultz, Sue and Sara Selk,Emily Serniak, Judy Standerford,Julie and Kenny Tobin, Bob Tranzillo, Angie Valentino, Barbara Waite, Bradley Wells, Kristin Wendt, Sue Wilgan, Ariele Willett, Louise Wishneski, Dan Zacchilli, and Nancy and Brian Zorena.
We would also like to thank the staff of the Town Clerk's office and the staff at Country Hearts on Route 25 for selling tickets.
We know we are missing a few names - people who came with friends and stayed to help, student volunteers, and family members of some of our regular volunteers. We couldn't have done it without you!
Financial Notes
Thanks to everyone's hard work and to the donations we received throughout the year, we raised over $5000 with our two Christmas events. This money is already being put to work as we have a new roof put on the Meetinghouse and at the Beardsley House we have replaced window sills, installed new basement windows, reinforced the basement door, built a new attic window and are considering a proposal for a gutter system to keep water from the basement.
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