Monday, February 3, 2014

OH SPRING, WHERE ART THOU?

The groundhogs weren't any help yesterday when they saw their shadows and foretold another six weeks of winter for the winter weary.

But the Danvers Historical Society has a solution of sort: see springtime past and,  hopefully not to far in the future, but checking out, by clicking below , the new


Glen Magna Farms Gardens Blog

Sunday, February 2, 2014

BOSTON GLOBE SUBSCRIBERS: 

PLEASE HELP US!!!!!

     Dear Boston Globe Subscribers who are Danvers Historical Society supporters,

     Have you received your check to support non-profits through the Boston Globe GRANT program?     
     Please consider sending yours in to benefit the Danvers Historical Society. 
     If you're a Boston Globe newspaper or boston.com subscriber, you can help the Society earn free advertising in the Globe. This valuable exposure can help us promote our special places, programs, and events to a whole new audience.

How it works:

  • Watch for a silver envelope from the Boston Globe GRANT (Globe Readers and Nonprofits Together) program in your mailbox.
  • Pull out the voucher "check" for $50 or $100.
  • Fill out the voucher. Where it asks for the Name of the Certified 501(c)(3) please write in:
      Danvers Historical Society
      11 Page Street, PO Box 381, Danvers, MA 01923

  • Send it back to the Globe in the envelope provided by March 1.

Thank you ever so much and if you know of other Boston Globe subscribers, please ask them to consider naming the Danvers Historical Society.

And please remember to vote for the Society in the Cranney Companies monthly giving of $1000 to the local non profit that gets the most votes for the month.  

Here's the link:Cranney Cares for the Community
The Society's web page is: danvershistory.org

THANKS!

PROGRESS ON THE CLEAN UP AROUND THE ENDECOTT BURIAL GROUND

The Saturday (February 1, 2014) edition of the Salem News reported on its front page  "Site Owner Agrees to Pay for Clean Up".

The Endecott Burial Ground, located on the south bank of the Crane River, off of Clinton Avenue, is surrounded by the property of the now defunct Creese & Cook tannery.  


Unfortunately, the Burial Ground's nearest neighboring building was the Creese & Cook beam house that processed the animal hides and, over the years, contaminated pockets of surrounding soil with arsenic, chromium, dioxin and other hazardous chemicals.  Adding to the toxic mix is asbestos contamination resulting from the beam house being demolished without having the asbestos removed before demolition. 

Last year, after a number of years of requests by the Society, which is the steward of this historic Burial ground dating back to 1654 where generations of Endecotts rest, the authorities deemed it safe for the Society's Building and Grounds crew to access the Burial Ground and begin restoring it (which will be the subject of another blog post).

Clean up of the area has been held up for the last 4 and one half years by litigation between the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection and the present owner of the Creese & Cook land. 

Hopefully, this settlement of the litigation will clear the way for the authorities to clean up the land.


Here's the link to Saturday's Salem News article:
Endecott Burial Ground Cleanup