and really ready to fall apart so i know that i lost a lot easier whenever we have heavy rain and when storms like we have this winter knowing that we have in new york also in two thousand  to to replace that piece of wood work as well as make sure that the insect problem was taken care of so that all of that constitutes phase one of the renovation project successfully completed in two thousand five hundred to january two thousand  the executive board of the historical society at our last meeting agreed to these next few things as our objectives for two thousand and six for those of you who are not familiar with the renovation project i'm not going to go into all the details right now there's a sign board over to my left over here that you can take a look at the details of all the different types of things we're trying to accomplish over the next few years also those of you who have internet access could read about the renovation project on the richmond a stork society website that's w w w all round church dot com for two thousand and six what we hope to accomplish the following these are priorities starting with interior work to the round church that's included in the master plan that would be the inside piping for a fire safety sprinkler system handrails to go up to the balcony inside painting and plastering will have to mess up the walls all that when we get into put the the pipes in for the sprinkler system so repainting and we plastering on the inside in addition to those three things to complete the inside the church part of the project we're also looking into types of x exterior outside lighting for around the front steps to the church especially in the autumn when the weddings are in the evening and it's d gallagher during christmas carols sing anytime we have a nighttime event at the church it's very dark and kind of a little bit dangerous around the front steps of looks like so i don't number four on our wish list of things that we're trying to accomplish in two thousand and six would be to get some sort of writing out all of those things together will cost an estimated seventy to seventy five thousand dollars we think we have much but not all of that money on hand now so fundraising will be a big part of what we can achieve this year two other things that i wanted to mention right now things that are our priorities for the executive board things that we feel pressed that need to happen soon but we may or may not be able to get to this year if not this year then next year hopefully the outside has not been repainted in ten years given this climate that's that's a long time for a wooden structure to go so giving the outside be painted as another priority also back to that sprinkler system we're going to try to the we're planning to put the interior piping in this year but it won't be operational and won't be any good to anybody or to the church until we complete the outside part of the sprinkler system and that would involve bringing the water line and building and underground control room in the hill adjacent to the ranch or the sprinkler system is the single most expensive item in all of the right the recommendation project inside and outside part together is going to seventy to eighty thousand dollars the estimate at this point could be more we haven't updated our estimates and in over a year we have asked someone to come and talk a little bit for the chin insurance group and i was hoping that he would be here to talk a little bit more and maybe answer questions about what a sprinkler system would entail but if he's not here then we'll have to forego that part of the program so so is the facilitator for today's discussion and she's going to introduce our guests when the program is over and i think there will be plenty of time for you to ask questions of these folks and interact with the program is over we do have refreshments over at the table over to my left self please feel free to hang around and have some cider and cookies and talk some more with our  thank you thank you all for joining us this afternoon it's my pleasure to be the moderator for today rick in memory sharing session and don't you think richmond is a great place to live landscape and the richmond historical society deserves great credit for all the work that we do so i just wanted to thank the historical society one of the real treasures of richmond is through the value of our living mystery and the contributions of residents who were born here with the school work to raise families and  handled all the responsibilities entailed living and running in richmond and this is the second year that the historical society has hosted the memory sharing and as we can see from all of you were here it's proving to be very popular and thank you for holding it again this year would would like to ask you first if you can share a little bit of memory about how your family came to richmond and where you lived in richmond and we're going to hear some microphone hundred three lived first on the flag farm and it is on canyon road and then they moved to the house it was the farm on the inside the river i was born and brought up on the other side of the river so i think that's the best part of town are here they know more about that than i do i am i went to richmond school i was born upon the hill you don't know hospital or anything the doctor i had no problem i just had tuberculosis news in the sanatorium for three years before he passed away and after that i moved to vermont or to new york state and that's where i live now i guess fifteen from bolton and worked in the store my mother at that time he was a telephone operator the telephone office was in the old store building  we do want to hear our time if you could maybe talk about what it was like some highlights from going to school here and winter or any highlights a group of growing up as a child during the winter months before the i dish and was put on back there was a huge pound out back and it was filled in and i had no idea when it was filled and if anybody knows i would be glad if i'd like to find out we had a good time during the war we had to steal gas from our different farmers to let us go to the bow game baseball games they were out of town didn't realize it was a hardship but we got to go most of the games always somebody we could get five gallons of gas from and s on a farm is not quite the same but still some some farmers are still getting their living out of milk and i know i did have a problem when i was with mine i told him and my mother tried to make me w first then she had to go to the livery stable to leave the horse and then walk back to school backtracked so that was part of and in the winter it was different other and the horses would get stuck there and after my father stuck character kids to school this was when we were in grade school john collins drove horses and he said he was going to keep to the road he was going to go through the meadows but he got his horses stuck in the mud made for and then the snow in the snow bank about half a mile from our house and our over there it florida old wonderful for man after my second husband died i went to florida and got away from all the snow drifts and the only horses in but it was a great it was a great life living here in vermont and remark and richmond like all of the rest go here richmond is the place to be and friday younger the but it was a wonderful man i think i'll pass it on to pat i knew pat's father years to deliver groceries at my house and islands on the road and we had to take turns to look in the warden if you wanted to keep warm after that came to richmond there was no school buses then  i guess that's a fellow i have to say we all have to write a book because you can't tell everything you remember visit john miller a week or so ago when he was telling about his mother played piano when they had the theater and she took one child at a time she couldn't handle all of us all and together the only time they got to go together was when they had a shirley temple will be on it is mother before that we our father took it got paid to take us to school on time and then when another guy took over they thought he ought to get paid more because he farted from from halfway and had to go way up on the hill and go way down really wanted to be a nurse from the time i was in eighth grade and i figured it out and from the time that girl was i knew about her impromptu giving i five dollars a day for a long time before then it was eight or nine years before i became a nurse and i was still getting five dollars a day so why does everything have to go by high wage has and i mean when i first graduated i got one hundred fifty dollars a month working seven days a week thirty days  everybody else was trying to make a living and we had we had everything great there on the farm about  of the truck in the car until we got out to the main road and then we followed the bus and the snow plow one church was a pretty busy place in those days they had town meetings there and had special town meetings there and we had to go from school walk over from school and then we had to walk back and when i was in school in the thirty's and forty's we had to write a report and some of them got in trouble because we didn't remember things too well and then there was weddings and not as many as we have today but they did have weddings there i remember in forty six oh we had a lot of good times at there near the old church we always played in the park and on halloween somebody always threw a rope out so we could ring the bell and get into trouble with all the neighbors and talk about halloween they  all the kids all the boys and some of the older men would put to take wagons from one place to another and put it on the porch of the round church near the round church or on the steps to the schoolhouse and one time my folks were talking about mr to forge used quite a lot and us kids all made money by running to the barns houses and getting the keys of the notorious could get into their own church and we made anywhere from twenty five cents to a dollar depending on how many was in the ground so we i think everything has been pretty well covered i don't remember too much murder then but we did go to the round church on election day and we were supposed to write a paper about that was part of living in richmond and then down this church was closed for such a long time in our room and on my father's half sister  belong to this church and on the town meeting day they would have dinner here and people would come over to eat and our family from the school would come over i guess just my sister and i are old enough then to go to school and we would come over and end up with service in the dining room or wherever and i don't remember too much about it but i am so happy to see this church acted and being taken care of the way it is now i really am happy about it and you made such an improvement  glad to see our library here and so much activity we came in earlier and the library group was having lunch here and i guess they had had their meeting just ahead bridge and then it was water was across the road on the other side and the same thing we had to go slowly when we were on for quite a ways it was  and he had his brother's wife and himself and the children then they were in floods and they had to move up into the second story of the when the house they were in which was back this way and they stayed all night and they had to move up stairs and they washed them then you know i guess he had a flood flashlight or something because they watched the water com one stair at a time and when it got to the top they were just considering going into the attic when they could put the kids to bed with their coach no heat or anything no lights no telephone so they were considering going into the attic when the floods stopped at the top stair and in the morning daylight a boat came along and took them out  now you can't see through the trees anymore and where we tumble hay and my mother was raking hay the day before i was born with it with a horse with well i don't know how she did it she had to keep think when i was in school in the forty's you know the banker lived in that house when mr or mrs learner john learned he had the bank for years i don't know how long he lived there all the time i was a child growing up canyon road and in that area the face came in the broad sense came there first so that it really was the beginning of richmond but there i understand there was a lot of industry around jonesville and at richmond like the shirt factory and the song wilson things like that did you talk about that a little bit you did you live in that house a one time yeah did you live in the curtis house where the curtis is live right next to the hotel at one time oh you didn't move the ok ok i thought you did i'm sorry  yeah nowadays in richmond the fourth of july is a big celebration here where he's upgraded but it gets together around greed and all sorts of things happen i was just wondering if you had it for a lifestyle for actions back then or any special ways of celebrating that well when i was a kid the fireman always had the fourth of july doings you didn't have much but they had have used to have music and they had different types of games they played and  but i don't remember too much jokes for the fourth of july if they had to do was have some knowledge and you know i remember a book that he had been told about just about everything and anything how to how to measure a haystack and and all that stuff you know and then the book and i don't know where were making but she did tell my story one time that they finally really got worried that was a month in vermont and so that's the cost it ever came to a story about a ghost i guess i think the most important thing that i remember about it is we had to take keep track of all the airplanes that went over town after we had a little place up on jericho road where we had and we had to be able to identify all of lanes now learn didn't think i'd ever learn them all but i did before for years i think it hurt our town a lot because before when we we had all kinds of stores we had a when i was growing up there was argos have a clothing store they sold everything in it you could want in clothing store and then there was another lady have it after that i don't remember her name so we had like i said three grocery stores we had anything you wanted to buy you could find where the ski shop is it was a big store on the corner there one more question know let's hope that our spring season and end of winter don't result in these kinds of exciting stories for any of us want to thank all of you for coming again and you can continue conversation and sharing with some refreshments and iowa this is a photo album she should be happy to share with you and i want to thank again our guests today