A
happy holiday to everyone from the Board and Advisory Board of The Union
Meeting House. We are buttoned up tight for the winter but before it got too
cold workmen from Oakes & Parkhurst stained glass restorers came and took
out the Nancy Hunton Atkinson memorial stained glass window. Over the past
decades the bottom third had sagged badly and the entire sash was in danger of
letting go. This would mean hundreds of pieces of broken glass on the ground
and the loss of a beautiful window.
This past summer Mrs. Donna Page, a former Readfield girl and a Hunton
descendant, donated $1,000 to have the window taken out and completely
restored. Between Oakes & Parkhurst, which will repair the stained glass,
and Joseph Caputo of East Pittston, who will scrap, prime, repair and paint the
wooden casing and sashes, the window should be back in place by springtime. Our
thanks for Mrs. Page for her thoughtfulness.
October was the Meeting House Board’s annual meeting. Elected to serve
until October 2013 were: Marius B. Péladeau, president; Barbara Boenke,
secretary; Donn Harriman, treasurer; and Florence Drake, Marianne and John
Perry, Karen B. Peterson; Joan Wiebe and Milton R. Wright. On the Advisory
Board are Dale Marie Potter Clark, Mary Jernigan, Brianne M. McNally and Evelyn
A. Potter.
The newsletter to all members and donors is in the mail. If anyone else
wants a copy let us know at 685-4537. The UMH is honored that the branches of
The Bank of Maine in Readfield and Winthrop made a kind donation to sponsor
this newsletter.
