Oconee County, GA Politics

From: "psommer" psommer@bellsouth.net Date: February 12, 2013 2:29:46 PM EST To: "'psommer'" psommer@bellsouth.net Subject: historical society needs help I just found out that the Parks and Recreation Department is advertising that the Oconee County Historical Society will be hosting tours of Central School House during Touch a Truck. It will be March 16 th   11-2pm. If you are interested in helping us host visitors, please let me know.  It's not difficult and we can teach you what you need to know. Peggy

The Oconee County Historical Society and the DAR will be sponsoring a float in the Watkinsville Christmas Parade December 4.  We plan to have people in historical costume accompanying the float to hand out 'old fashioned' candies and a flyer.  The flyer will have information about the society, some historical information about Christmas trees and we hope information about the upcoming campaign to restore the chairs in the auditorium at Central School House. We need folks willing to help with the candy and fliers.  Do not worry about the 'historical costume' part.  The history that the society covers goes from the beginnings of settlement in the area up to the present day so thinking of a costume might not be as difficult as you think.  If you need help with ideas we will help you figure out something.  Please let me know if you are willing to join in the fun. Peggy

The Oconee County Historical Society hosted free tours of three structures including the breathtakingly well preserved school house with new tin roof and a fresh coat of paint at Heritage Park Saturday during the Oconee County Recreation and Park Department's extremely successful "Touch A Truck" event Saturday below Farmington.  Tractor rides were given with large donation buckets not seeing nearly enough action for this history minor's preference. At one time several years back I was on a volunteer residents Historic Sites and Tourism committee tasked to find the perfect footprint for this school's relocation, which made national news coverage at the time. There were all kinds of hassles over methane pipes from former landfills as to exactly where and how close to the road and I am glad we are not still in meetings trying to figure out the best place to leave it. The Oconee County Historical Society gave tours of the three structures at Heritage Park in Sou...

The Oconee County Historical Society needs our support, donations and attention. Please consider taking your children to the Touch a Truck event this Saturday at Heritage Park and tour the three historic buildings on the grounds as well. Subject: minutes of last nights meeting MINUTES 2010 March 15 ATTENDANCE:  Sheila Jackson, Linda Bernard, Melissa Piche, Dory Brown, Lisa Douglas, Ben Jackson, Richard Pendergrass, Peggy Sommer OLD BUSINESS: Grant application:  Richard reported that he did not sent in a grant application to the Watson-Brown Foundation this year because he could not find some old pot belly stoves that matches what was already available in Central Schoolhouse.  It was decided that we would all keep an eye out for some and maybe try again next year. Meeting location:  We agreed that we would continue to use the OCAF facilities for meetings in the future. History   Village   Planning:  The next meeting of the Rec. Dept committee o...

Please attend or lend a hand or donation to this Oconee County Historical Committee endeavor with the open house at the Central Schoolhouse, tenant house and Rose Hill home in Heritage Park in southern Oconee County. Subject: Saturday Hi,             We have agreed to hold an open house of the 3 buildings that are currently part of   Heritage   Park .  We agreed to gather at 9:30 so we could get organized before the event started at 10:00.  If you can come join us for any part of the day it would be very much appreciated.  The event ends at 1.             According to my notes from last night here is a list of things people have agreed to do:             Richard will print out more copies of the flyer about Central Schoolhouse and fix a bucket and sign for collecting donations for the hayride. ...

This just came in from Peg Sommer and the folks at the Oconee County Historical Society attempting to purchase some tasteful signs showing what we have here in Oconee County to display to students of historical structures. I applaud their efforts as always and urge you to consider a sizeable or small financial donation. --- On Tue, 5/12/09, psommer <psommer@bellsouth.net> wrote: From: psommer <psommer@bellsouth.net> Subject: can you help? Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2009, 11:10 AM Hi,             At our meeting last night we voted to raise money to buy a couple signs for Central Schoolhouse and the cabin .  The signs will be made of a PVC type material with wooden post. The cost of the signs are as quoted by Athens Sign; The cost of a 24" x 48" double sided routed and painted PVC sign will be $541.00. The cost of a 24" x 48" single sided routed and painted PVC sign will be $413.00 . T...

The Oconee County Historical Society will have a meeting Monday. I urge you to attend to hear the letters read by Mary Ruth Moore from her ancestors about Scull Shoals. Hi,             Our next meeting will be Monday the 11 th and we have a special treat in store.  Mary Ruth Moore read some more of her ancestor's letters at the festival in Scull Shoals over the weekend, much to everyone's delight.  She has promised to share the same stories with us Monday.             John and Richard have been working on wording and other information on signs for Central School house and we hope to have a report on that discussion also. Peggy

The Central School house was moved a couple miles down the road to Heritage Park a few years back too Heritage Park and it created a positive buzz of national media notoriety for Oconee County. Now the lack of action by the Board of Commissioners in the planning and budgeting for this facility is appalling but just more evidence of the disdainful practice of supporting something on the surface but denying important funds and infrastructure behind the scenes. Can't really call this lip service per se, but more of a bait and switch approach to appearing supportive to some thing that would be almost impossible to oppose, then behind the scenes making sure nothing gets appropriated or done on the project. The proposed park around Elder Mill Covered Bridge is another example of saying one thing and doing another.