HAMPDEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Board of Directors
July 14, 2025
AGENDA
CALL TO ORDER: ASCERTAINMENT OF QUORUM
WELCOME
SECRETARY'S REPORT FOR JUNE 2025
TREASURER'S REPORT FOR JUNE 2025
CORRESPONDENCE
OLD BUSINESS
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Digitalization Updates: Grant denied. Requesting board okay up to $6,000 for computer and software.
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Website/Social Media
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Bench plaques: Plaques finished and installed. They look great!!!
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Bell: Moved, re-stabilized and painted. Looks better!
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Museum status/updates:
Apartment: cleaned and rented with occupancy as of 7/12/2025
Porch Repairs: Get a contractor quote? Part of what previous donations were for.
Should get it done this summer/fall? Priority for that money!
Retaining Wall: Requesting $ 11,000 for Hughes Brothers to repair/replace.
What does this entail. What will they be doing?
Repairs/Refreshing of Upstairs Rooms Status: On hold until after Bazaar.
Yard Sale: Results: $4,800
Boston Cane: Is Mary Burns our recipient? How to get it to her or have her come to HHS?
Contact Information?
Tool Shed Discussion/Update
NEW BUSINESS
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Presentation of Instagram: Char
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Tour: Hampden Rec Summer Camp: July 15
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Update: Erickson’s Charge Account with Names
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Hampden Semi-Quincentennial: Ice Cream Social at end of Heritage Days; Town Crier reading
Declaration of Independence; decorate HHS outside; 2026 Patriotic Children’s Day Parade Float
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Children’s Day Parade: 2025 Participate?
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Lawn mowing proposal by Hill Tractor: $50
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Map File Cabinet: $1,000
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Trees: North side of the Kinsley House.
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Kinsley House sign: Replace with larger sign, move closer to road, repaint???
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Thursday Hours/Staffing
OTHER BUSINESS
Hannaford Gift Cards
NEXT MEETINGS
General: Monday: July 28, 6:30 p.m.: The Post Offices of Hampden, Maine
Board: Monday: August 11, 6:30 p.m.