Due to the possibility of heavy rains and flooding forecast for Sunday, October 25th, the General meeting of the Alvin Museum Society has been cancelled. We will contact members if the meeting is to be rescheduled.

REMINDER OF THE UPCOMING MEETING Sunday, October 25th at 2:00 At the Alvin Senior Center We will have updates on Society activities, a program and lots of socializing. Our program presenter is Les Pettigrew, a person who lived in and studied Civil War Battlefields in Winchester, Virginia. As a “Living Historian,” Les will recreate for us the Battle of Gettysburg, giving us the perspective of a person involved in reenacting history. HOPE YOU WILL BE ABLE TO JOIN US FOR HIS PRESENTATION.

In preparation for recognition of all who have served as mayor of Alvin, the City Clerk asked us to provide pictures from our collection to be used in creating a video presentation. Searches were made of our collection of photographs and documents, as well as on the Internet. We were able to provide copies of several. However, it was discovered that likenesses of some of the earliest mayors could not be found. If you can help with this, please let us know.

Liverpool Diaries Henry Clement was an early Brazoria County pioneer who lived in Liverpool from the 1890’s through the 1960’s. He kept a daily diary every day for almost 70 years. He recorded his daily activities and also kept a record of the weather each day. The first of the 74 diaries he kept was for the year 1894. He continued them until nine days before his death on December 11, 1964. The diaries have been preserved by family members; first by Henry’s daughter, Marjorie Clement Glassford, then his granddaughter, Patty Roden. His great-granddaughter, Gay Prevost , has recently loaned them to the museum and allowed us to scan them for our collection. According to Richard Klapper who has worked on them this summer, “It will probably take several years to scan all of them because of the volume of material and the need to perform scans carefully to avoid damaging them.” These diaries give an interesting account of everyday life in Brazoria County during this time period. In addition to his life’s activities, he chronicles weather information such as unusual snowfalls, as well as the 1900 and 1915 storms.

President’s Message ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING Sunday, October 25th, 2:00 pm 309 W. Sealy Street (Alvin Senior Center) The summer months were filled with ups and downs for us. We were “up” learning that the restored Post Office Mural project was underway with a possible completion date of the middle of September. Continuing, we were “down” learning that the replacement of the hallway floor required asbestos removal, delaying the completion of repairs there and in the exhibit hall. By the end of July we were on the way to seeing all back to normal, until the air conditioning went out the first week of August, causing us to be closed for the next three weeks. Thanks to our COO, Tom Stansel, and the assistance of the City of Alvin, all needed repairs were made and we resumed “business as usual.” Throughout all of the situations, we did stay “up” due to a steady stream of responses from members who renewed within the transition period. In addition several new business members joined, bringing our total membership to 321 to date.