2009 Belmond Historical Society Activities / Acquisition
POW BUSEUM: POW Life in Iowa and POW in Germany
Arranged field trips for students ingrates 5 through 12 to see both bus exhibits
Students visited with several WWII Veterans
POW exhibits opened to the public-free admission
Prepared a DVD for our servicemen from Belmond and surrounding area who served in WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, Iraq
Hosted a museum open house after the bus tours, served refreshments, and viewed the military DVD
RIVER PARK COUNTRY SCHOOL see Photos
Repaired and raised the River Park country schoolhouse which was damaged in the flood of 2008
Conducting ongoing research about the country schoolhouses in our area
ACTIVITIES
Sorted and identified many of Bob Foss's pictures from the Belmond Independent
Received several BHS Composite Graduation Pictures
Assembled a collection of BHS/BKHS yearbooks
Started scanning Dunham/Thoe glass plate negatives collection
Copying the Thoe Photo ledgers
Continued work on the sugar beet display
Participated in the 4th of July Parade and the Christmas parade
Gave museum tours to six different community groups
PURCHASES / ACQUISITION
Built a costume display case
Built a protective frame for the etched glass window for the front door of the Dumond house
Purchased three display cases from the Renwick city Hall
Built podiums to hold the Foss Picture books
Purchased pictures hangers, scanners, hard drives, mannequins, archival boxes and envelopes
FUND RAISERS
Two chicken and biscuit dinner- Feb./Nov.
Mail-in campaign- Nov.
Bake sale- Sept.
Family Fun Day-Oct.
BUILDING IMPROVEMENTS
Installed new kitchen and doors
Straightened up back storage room
Rearranged display in the museum
Installed picture frame molding
Finished insulating the building
FUTURE ACTIVITIES INTO 2 0 1 0
Complete the sugar beet display
Put the Foss pictures in a album
Finish scanning the 3500+ Dunham/Thoe glass plate negatives
Continue the artifacts inventory
Finish recopying the Thoe registers
Paint the school in River Park