on the bicentennial committee represent all different walks of life and different talents and putting that all together and coming up with this event has been for me a real privilege it's hard to believe that we've reached the goal of the richmond a chance for all of us to get together for a good reason cancelation it's mainly a collector's item and what happens if they want to send it to somebody and i recommended they put it in another local in mail out that way they are sold the actual pictorial cancellation doesn't get over cancelled and basically this scheduled tours today will be at one two and three o'clock and harriet riggs our local historian author will be doing the tours and i mean china church will be open the whole day and they'll be guides and here to answer questions today the first thing i'm doing is helping with the memory both it would be wonderful  you know children an eighteen thirteen would have simply drawn their pattern in the dirt a few other things we don't have any balloons because rubber bones were not invented into eighteen twenty four they did have bubbles they would play bubbles on wash day when they were helping their parents to do the laundry that really is the heart of the community i enjoy meeting people from all over the country and sometimes the world on thursday when i was here i had someone come in from lima p of only seventeen national historic landmarks so it really is an important building not just to richmond but nationally this building almost wasn't here in one nine hundred seventy three it was closed it was coming down and due to a real effort by donors and volunteers the building was saved that was also the founding of the historical society so forty years ago the story was founded and hazardous as its mission to continue to maintain this beautiful incredible unique building you know fix it up  common cause to fix it and it was really sad when it was close i remember baton they took the top off of the church and that was in a little building sort of on the saw it and they had to rip up all the floor for every month that we had a concert and that was fun and they talked about bill church at that time at every concert and i think it stirred up a lot of interest with a lot of people here and a lot of them here to be from i've been in communication with artists and photographers in this region of vermont and encourage them to submit up to three pieces of work and we have work now on the rise bakery  the kitchen table the stroke we have children's watercolor drawings of the bridge street cafes we have worked with the victorian in you and we have worked at the library and i hope i'm not missing a the theme was the round church pastor present and i was really interesting to see all the different versions how people visualize the round church from different seasons to different years there were shots like like these like the more classic shot and then there were pictures of richmond so everything from the monitor barn to the river to the town itself the village and what i thought was interesting is we had more photography than pavers so that was kind of fun it was fun to see what the target person dead and the kids paintings were really neat because they came up and spent time and they learned about the church and i learned that has straight and they got to scratch so a lot of their paintings have sketches of foundation and you've got the pattern of the windows and you've got these sort of flat sort of one dimensional pieces but the windows are all properly placed so that's very funny to see how it was i really loved being part of that i also have a photograph exhibit that i created in the round church way to capture some great history to come and learn how to do it and i learned from the best and then i did it for over twenty years and i remember coming here for town meeting and we'd always try to get in far enough to hear some of the business they really adamant that children were in the air it became sort of like a focal point for me for my photography as i started out and which one this one it's pretty much the classic for me and i did this twenty years ago you know i went to the great stories i when you know saw the lights were on a perfect night couple of days before christmas and i went to take the picture i set it up and half the lights on the tree were off and half the lights in the church were off so out of nowhere brasseur who shows up and says i can fix this and sure enough within fifty you know ten to fifteen minutes he's fixed it so the footsteps in the picture which has gone all over i mean this has been in vermont life and many people from all of the world have bought it so it really taught me how what an icon this place is and in recent years i've tried to just capture different parts of it i a i became a portrait photographer and that's what i do in my life i bought a craft for my lot like so many other people do as part of my personal work and around churches is what i keep focusing on i keep coming back to the round church in richmond they say photograph what you know and what i know or the brand church i know richmond and i know the rivers and the streams that go through this community i did hate this song to my ninth graders science teacher mrs parks to the was actually is she still alive but she was around when i recorded the song i got to send her a copy of it she was floored it was forty two years after i t proprietors and actually helped build the church but only three days on the building but with one of the founders and and part of creating it i have a cousin who lives in hyde park and we i had never been here before so i have seen photographs but it's just beautiful thank you very much i hope you enjoy it's fun to be at the market and it's weird we just started actually this is two years ago so we're this is our first time actually going to event like this and we're having fun  my involvement in the event today is as a vendor for the many fine and wonderful yarns that i manufacture at him richmond and also the fantastic ground troops have that you are wearing on your head that is a pattern that i developed just and it doesn't make you look silly at all a lot of the yarns that are behind us are from right here in richmond all of these are from my next door neighbor jennifer andrews jennifer you'll even though she had a flock here for many years and this is from the last clip of that she i thirty businesses that have been either sponsored or contributed to the event to add the least and the town is really gotten behind this program without having the financial support of sponsors we couldn't have this at that and we could have had the year long concerts that we've had we're very grateful for their financial support the visibility will help them in their will maybe get more weddings we've been down on weddings the last few years so weddings are what pay the bill eve at least that's the plan for now and if we have any extra money left over we may continue concerts into next year for the future one of the things that i really hope for is  community spirit that has surrounded this round church and this event continues into the future we've had more concerts we've had meetings today we have this event on the green i hope that continues this pretty special