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CAHS Officers meeting - Sunday Nov 17th, 2024 Officers present: Johnny Trestrail, Thomas Rusch, Harry Curnow, Robert Wareham, Christopher Haines, Dorothy Hosking, Carolyn Haines Agenda 1. Activities since last officers meeting on Aug 27th (JT) 1. 3 x newsletters, 1 per month, September, October and November 2. 4 x Zooms 3. Karrie’s travels in Cornwall Sept 15 4. Book club - Demelza Poldark Oct 6 5. Debra’s travels in Cornwall Nov 3  iv.Cornish in LATAM Nov 17 1. Calendar review (JT) appeared to be up to date with the items listed, looking forward are the January Book Club, Officer meeting web event, and new member meeting 2. Membership update (BW): total members 258, new members 35 with a welcome letter sent out to each of them. 3. Treasurer report (DH)When the books are closed on the Gathering it looks like the CAHS and Calumet group will each receive about $1200. Finally have the Vanguard statement after several years of trying to get all the information that was wanted in order to change hands from Carolyn Haines to Johnny Trestrail. Account has about $11,068 in it and we will have to decide if we will keep it there or draw it out and what it should be used for. Dorothy is looking into a new system since the Quick Books has been changed at a higher cost. Tech Soup is a quick books system at $80/yr. 4. Newsletter report (TR) We have officially decided to go from a quarterly newsletter to a monthly one with current events and  future events. It would be coordinated with the website Forum between Tom and Chris. 5. Secretary report (CH) One meeting has been processed and given to President 6. Historian report (HC) The Archives of Mineral Point have all of our historical  information. 7. Social media report (CH) Facebook had 100 posts, and 10 new followers 866 total. Facebook group has 211 members with 32 actives the past 60 days, You.tube  may need a way to keep folks when they click on one of the videos. We have 32 subjects, 324 views but 270 click off after a few minutes. Chris gave us a couple of hints to use to see if we would get more activity. He also will be looking for the holiday promotions and posting them for the merchandise we have for sale with CAHS logos, a.Officer chat platform was suggested to make it easier if someone has an idea to discuss. It would be easier than emailing or texting. It was decided to try DISCORD. 1. Archive report (TR) Mineral Point assessed all the boxes of information and produced a list. This was sent to us to approve the list. It was moved to approve the list of information and 2nd by Dorothy and approved by everyone.             a.Mineral Point archive approval: see above as approved 1. Website update (JT) Johnny told us the website slowed down because the domain had expired. It was decided to go to Wix which was cheaper. Charges for both the Domain and the Wix charges were discussed and approved. Dorothy will get a debit card for Johnny to make it easier to pay the bills. 2. Domain renewal ($79) 3. Wix charge $432 on Dec 13 (was $384; 12.5% increase) Was decided to pay the higher price to get more functions for the website. 4. Promote CAHS online story for holidays? (JT) Approved 5. Book club (JT): Gold Miner in January (date TBD) Book available on Amazon 6. Goal setting for 2025 (JT) Each officer will be setting up goals for the next year 2025. BIG: Engage the NEXT GENERATION,                                                                                                                                                                                                          Chris has set his at: Double/Triple online usage (If we have info we can send it to him and he will get it online) 7. Travel grant for 2025 (JT) There was no feedback from the grantees, so we will proceed with promoting for 2025. 8. Committee for next Gathering (JT) We will contact the Presidents of the Cornish societies to see if anyone is interested in hosting the next gathering in 2026 or 2027. 9. Ideas for programs (JT): 10. Cornish bedtime stories w/ Brian Waters (Gentleman that has a very nice reading voice and has read kids stories before) will be contacted to see if he would do some for us  11. New member orientation in January 12. Cornish language 13. Adam Spring Respectfully submitted, Carolyn Haines

Hello everyone and greetings from Cornwall!! I recently discovered CAHS through family history contacts in the US and Tom Rusch has kindly asked me to join CAHS as a 'friend' seeing that I hail from Penzance, Cornwall. I am delighted to be able to post on your fascinating website and find out about the Cornish Heritage communities and people in the US. The reason for posting is because my mother, Muriel Laity has recently re-published on Amazon a book about the villages of Crowlas and Ludgvan in West Cornwall. This book may be of real interest to anyone that has family connections to Ludgvan Parish or is just interested in stories, yarns and the social history of this lovely Cornish village.   The earlier edition of the book was only available for sale as a paperback in the village itself and sold out quickly so my mother (who is now 91) wanted to now make it available to a wider audience. All proceeds from the sale will go to local charities.   The details of the book and how to get a copy are shown below:   ‘Memories of a Cornish Village: Down Crowlas and Ludgvan Way’ is available on Amazon Books:  https://www.amazon.com/Memories-Cornish-Village-Crowlas-Ludgvan-ebook/dp/B0DP5HBBDY   It is $9.99 for the Paperback Edition or $2.99 for the electronic Kindle Edition (which can be easily printed if needed). The book contains a lot of social history about the people who lived in the village and also includes many fascinating old photos - many of which have not previously been published.  If anyone is interested in finding out about the history of the village and details of many Ludgvan families (such as Morris, Laity, Davy, Triggs, Hosking, Reynolds etc), it would make an excellent present or research source.

When visiting Goldsithney in September, my sweetheart (Holly Odgers) and I wandered into the town's community center when we heard music coming from inside. It was a rehearsal of Rock Choir Cornwall, under the direction of Marcus Alleyne. Alleyne lives in Cornwall and leads seven Rock Choirs in the area. We were excited to learn they will be performing at Carnegie Hall in New York City at 1 p.m. on Saturday, March 22, 2025, at the invitation of Distinguished Concerts International New York. My understanding is that the concert will feature other Rock Choirs from the U.K. Below are relevant links: https://dciny.org/events/rock-choir-the-big-apple-tour/ https://rockchoir.com/choirleaders/marcus-alleyne/ https://www.youtube.com/@rockchoircornwall8507/featured