Historical Commission Agenda and Packet 2012 07 18

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Memorandum To: Historical Commission From: Bridget Bacon, Museum Coordinator Date: July 10, 2012 Re: Museum Coordinator’s Report Anne Robinson’s walking tour of downtown Louisville, “Main Street Stories,” took place on th Saturday, June 30 with 18 participants. Anne’s next tour is scheduled for Saturday, st September 1. (Meet at 9:30 AM at the front of the Library; suggested donation is $5.) Diane Marino’s walking tour this year will be “Legends of La Farge” and will take place on thth Saturday, August 4 and Saturday, October 6. (Meet at 9:30 AM at the Historical Museum; suggested donation is $5.) The lead article of the next Louisville Historian is about how Louisville dealt with the polio epidemics of the 1940s and 1950s and has been written by Museum volunteer Kathleen Jones. The next Brown Bag presentation will also have this theme and will take place from 12:00 to 1:00 on Thursday, September 6 at the Library. A Museum program about “Homefront Heroines: The WAVES of World War II” by CU professor Kathleen Ryan has been tentatively scheduled for 7 PM on Monday, November 5, 2012 in recognition of Veterans Day this year. Marion Junior has kindly agreed to let me exhibit a selection of holiday ornaments that she has made over the years to benefit the Historical Commission. These will be in the exhibit cases in the Library lobby in December. Historic Boulder, Inc. is again producing a Boulder County-themed calendar that the Historic Commission will have an opportunity to sell at the Historical Museum later this year. This calendar has the theme of schools and will include, for one of the months, a historic photo of Louisville’s school that used to stand where Memory Square Park is. The Library has scheduled a children’s program for kids ages 8 to 12 about Paper Craft Engineering using Richard Wheeler’s paper craft model of the Louisville Grain Elevator. th It’s scheduled for Saturday, August 25 from 1 – 2pm, First Floor Meeting Room. Among other historic building research that I have been working on, I recently wrote a report for the Planning Department about the history of the buildings at 724 and 728 Main. 728 Main was the long-time location of the Twin Light Tavern, while 724 Main was a barber shop for 68 years. Museum Visitors Report (these statistics represent visits to the Museum itself, and not inquiries that come in by email or phone): June visitors: 359; YTD 1170. The year to date number represents an increase of 136% over the first six months of 2011.