Coulterville Historical Society

 

Website:cvillehistory.wixsite.com/coulterville

Email: cvillehistory@cvillecusd1.org

Contact by Phone: Jenny Dyson 618-317-4933

Quarterly Newsletter

January 17, 2024

Welcome to Autumn! Unfortunately this will be our final mailed newsletter due to our funding and the ever-increasing cost of stamps. We are requesting that everyone email cvillehistory@cvillecusd1.org with your preferred email address for later newsletters. We apologize for any inconvenience, but our monthly expenses have increased from previous years. Insurance is now $181, Ameren is now $187, and our water bill is $29.50, all together this adds up to almost $400 a month. We would really appreciate any donations and fundraising ideas. We are having a fundraiser to raise some money within the next few months. We are asking for clothing, books, small household goods (kitchen items/ home decor), as well as items such as bedding and bags. See attached flyer for more information on the fundraiser or check out our Facebook page for further dates related to the fundraiser!  If anyone has any further ideas to raise our funding please let us know via our email address, listed above, we are open to any ideas. 

During October and November, the museum will not be open due to some renovations that we are having done, funded by Coulterville TIF money. The floor in our front room has been getting very soft in recent years and has needed replacing as well as windows, doors and lighting. We will post on our website and Facebook page the date of the reopening. We hope everyone can come by to see the updates!

The school year has started and we have new Local History students who are eager to get some of their own displays in the museum. Students have already begun to work on a ceiling tile, listing our Lifetime members. Many students are doing a lot of behind the scenes museum work but they are having fun learning some of the history of Coulterville that many of them did not previously know about, and more information about topics they had some previous knowledge on. 

We hope everyone had a wonderful summer and we hope to see many of you at the annual Fall Festival on September 20th. If you have any questions please reach out to us. Contact information above!