Enfield 200th Anniversary Committee Meeting

Town of Enfield 200th Anniversary Celebration

(For more information, visit our 200th Anniversary Page)

We will have monthly planning meetings during 2020 on the 3rd Thursday of the month. If you would like to join this committee, please e-mail Ann at: daylilyann10@yahoo.com to be put on the notification list.

The First Meeting will be 7:00 p.m.,  Thursday, January 16, 2020, Enfield Historian’s Office, Enfield Community Building, 182 Enfield Main Road.

The 200th Anniversary of the Town of Enfield will be celebrated in 2021. To prepare for this event we will be planning this event during 2020. Ann Rider and Sue Thompson, Town Historian will be co-chairman of the events. We will not have just 1 celebration event but many smaller events and information presentations. Of course, our signature yearly events, sponsored by the Enfield Community Council, the spring County Faire and the fall Harvest Festival, will have the Anniversary as it’s theme.

To make all this happen, it will take many community people working together to make this a success. The Elementary School faculty and the Grange have already been contacted and have expressed willingness to contribute and have some ideas to pursue.

Some ideas already put forth: Replicating the day that Enfield became a separate Town in March of 1821; why do we have a Connecticut Hill in Enfield?; facts about the 5 biggest landowners in the Town in 1821; where did the children go to school in the old days?; what did people eat and where did they get their food in the old days?

Since I am a fabric person, we will produce a quilt. Will we have a popular pattern from 1821 or something modern? Some suggested to me that families in Enfield donate the fabric that they have on hand to make this quilt and of course, it will have to be hand quilted, so that will take many hands and a place to put it up on a frame for a period of time.

We do have a lot of reference material that has already been done, thanks to our long time Historian, Sue Thompson and people she has worked with during the last 30 years. We already have a history in one book and we need to look at the other materials we already have as a starting point.

We will have monthly planning meetings during 2020 on the 3rd Thursday of the month. If you would like to join this committee, please e-mail Ann at: daylilyann10@yahoo.com to be put on the notification list.

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