It's been about 3 years since we heard that our house is a part of what was being submitted as the Oakham Center National Historic District (to be administered by the National Park Service). It had apparently been a work in progress until the person responsible died. We heard about it because someone else had picked up the baton.
We attended a meeting back then and then heard nothing else. Suddenly, things have gotten hot again. There's a local information meeting tomorrow night and a final decision meeting in Boston on June 12.
The last 2 days, we've found groups of fifth graders (and their parents and teachers) standing on the front lawn. Apparently, each kid was assigned a house to research and write a paper about. The groups were apparently stopped on the lawn while the papers about our house were read.
Yesterday, Kristen was at the market while I washed window screens. I saw all of this and thought "What the heck?". Today, we were both working out front when another group showed up. We decided to join them for the reading. The student didn't have everything quite right but it wasn't the place for us to try to set them straight. Kind of cool though.
I'm sure that we'll have more to report later...
-JC-
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