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Forestville Historical Society

Minutes January 19,1999

1-Introductions: Dave Henry, Darleen Speer ,Jeff Tobes, & Penny Hutten

2-Mission Statement;

Dave Henry said we should work on content

first ,then on dissemination.

3-Boundrys of the physical area:

Northwest- Hacienda Bridge

Southeast- Ross Rd

Northwest - Jehovah Witness Church

Southeast - Trenton Rd.

4-Jeff Tobes shared what his 4/5 Th grade class has been working on:

Cooper Sawmill

Jan.8^th "History of Forestville Skit"

His idea of having a wagon with original chair that were
made in the Forestville chair factory in the June Parade.

Jeff’s research on A.J.Forrester.

5-Darlene Speer shared the pictures she has collected of old town Forestville.

6-Penny Hutten wanted to know if the group wants a new domain name or to keep the URL to the Web site the same.

7-Dave Henry spoke about the need for anyone doing a Oral history to take a class from the Western Sonoma county Historical Society, on "How to give a Oral History" (*Penny Hutten said she would look into it).

8-Talked about how to let people know about our Historical Society Meetings.

Gay LeBaron

Local Paper

9-Discussed the idea of someday having a Museum;

Jeff Tobes shared his idea of a model of the original Forestville school.

Dave Henry suggested that maybe we could us a corner of the library for our beginning Museum.

10- The last item we discussed was which people we would like to interview first:

Earl Carrillo

Marda Aldridge

Ross Yeager

Freda Johnson

Eva Hoar

Tony & Linda Franceschi

Mondo Dagnello & Sister

Frank Close

Donna Koch

Virgina Anderson (Ross)

Joyce Bockes

Virginia Hughes

Matt Smith (Covey) & Bill Smith

Vera Hayes (Davis)

Margaret Silk

Angelo Guisti

Julie Marcucci

Marylou Burke

Eve Martinelli

Toni Francisco

Claude Russell

Donna Coke (Davia)

Virgina Hughes (Van Keppel)

11-It was decided to meet the first Wednesday of every month in the Forestville School Auditorium at 3:00Pm.