The cellar at McAllister House Museum is not open to the public but holds our furnace and is used for storage.  Over the past few years the old coal chute which had been covered on the outside by a metal cover began to collapse, causing the plaster and wood lathe in the cellar to deteriorate and dirt to begin falling into the cellar.  Much longer and we’d have had water intrusion.  So we’ve been raising money and have applied for a grant from the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution to cover the costs of the repair.

In an ironic turn, the chairman and treasurer of McAllister House began a seminar the end of June on Disaster Preparedness and are in the process of updating our disaster plan.  The lightning and loss of communication we suffered on Saturday demonstrated how important this plan is.  Unfortunately we don’t complete the seminar until the end of July.  But we now have hard evidence of how necessary it is.

See the article in the Gazette about our Ice Cream Social on June 25th.  Hopefully you were there but if not, there will be another one next year, although not the 50th Anniversary Party!