Friday

Friday was a busy day meeting with several people in Hyde Park -

Was first at the home of former town supervisor Nancy Alden. As a resource for historical material about Hyde Park, she has a vast knowledge. I will be meeting with her through out the year to talk further and view some of the material she holds.

Next, I met with Herb and Barbara Sweet at Cranberrys Cafe in Hyde Park. Herb passed along two dvd's worth of material that I need to look through from his collections. While Barbara passed on her ideas of who I should talk to further.

Barbara was also kind enough to walk over to meet Dot Chenevert at her floral shop. Dot organizes the Hyde Park Farmers Market, which takes place at the drive in. As it is Easter weekend, I'll be following up with Dot in the next few weeks.

Finally, I caught up with Greg Callahan at the Library to talk further. The library holds several files of images that relate to Hyde Park History. As a part of my efforts, I have promised to digitize those images for the Library.

Hyde Park Town Council Mtg

Was invited to a Hyde Park Town Council Workshop last night . After hearing about a law that is being discusses, I had my moment with the council to speak about this project. Attending were Pompey Delafield, Hannah Black, Robert Linville, Robert Perkins and Valerie Hail. Plus, a smattering of media. The council was interested in the project and will be supporting it in any way possible. This meeting ran live on Ch22 Public Access. So, I'll be putting a copy of it up on the blog when it becomes available.

I also had the opportunity to meet with Herb and Barbara Sweet. As active members of the community, they gave me some great incite into people that I need to contact. They asked me to contact them with a list of names, as they volunteered to put a good word in.

Another member of the town administration that I met was Steve Hughes. As the town webmaster, Mr. Hughes has been documenting town events. He has said he can give me video of town council meeting, school district meeting, events, etc. This will be a great resource for material.