Dear Historical Society Member,

Welcome to all new members!  The response to our Society's recent town wide mailing has been very successful.  We have added more than 125 new members to the Society's rolls.  During the next several months your board will be contacting you to join in our very interesting programs and to work on many challenging and exciting programs.  We are planning an open house for January to introduce you to the Society, its Board of Directors, properties and programs.  In the meantime we encourage all of you to join us on November 15th for a program on genealogy at the Meetinghouse and our Christmas Fair on December 4, 5, and 6 at the Schoolhouse.

Please take a moment to complete the survey below by checking off areas of interest.  Then mail it back to me or call me with any questions or comments.

__________________Newsletter
__________________Docent at Schoolhouse
__________________Phone Tree
__________________Work parties at the Society's three properties
__________________Publicity
__________________Hospitality at Meetings and Programs
__________________Help at Christmas Fair
__________________Work on Fund Raising Activities
__________________Oral History Interviewer
__________________Cataloging and indexing our Collection

We invite you to volunteer your time, talents, and your knowledge of our town's history.

You can leave a phone message at 261-1383 or call me at home at 268-5048.

A Note from Jean Loveland:

During the summer, I contacted some people in our never-ending search for old photographs.  I am happy to say, some great new pictures have joined our collection.

Lou and Ann Fagan, who have relocated to Block Island, gave us a Congregational Church Booklet and Artists Sketch; a 1973 Sesquicentennial Booklet with photographs, an invitation and graduation program from the Monroe School - 1949, and several news clippings.

Mr. and Mrs. Bradford Smith of Easton gave us some much-appreciated photographs - one of Paul Goulette, former Superintendent of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.  He and his family lived in the Stevenson area.  Also, photographs of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Goulette - he built the Stevenson Store and operated it for many years.  Mrs. Goulette (Ella) lived in their home until about 1940-45.  Another photograph shows Louis Goulette in full dress uniform of the Masonic Lodge.

Other recent additions include a photograph of the former Mothers' Club Kindergarten in Stepney, about 1947.  Newcomers to town may not know that when we had no public kindergarten, the Club operated one for about ten years - a great community effort.

Several pictures (and stories) or the airplanes and motorcycles of the late John Yaros are also new additions.
        Jean Loveland