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2 <br />lecture, to be sponsored jointly, to get a topic with appeal to a wide audience. Members <br />made a variety of suggestions for ways to observe the month: self-guided driving tour on <br />one day with maybe 4 or 5 houses that owners are willing to allow to be featured. Or <br />maybe put out a “mystery photo” of some neat architectural feature from various historic <br />properties, could be a detail or church tower etc, on regular basis. There was a recent <br />historic preservation tour of Ayr Mount that partnered with Leland Little that was well <br />attended. Or plan a dinner that could bring people into properties. Are there ways to get <br />building owners to open up their properties for a special tour event? Maybe a church, a <br />country store and a residence? Offer cookies and refreshments? Five or six places would <br />be ideal. Members felt that Blackwood Farm offered good opportunities to be opened up <br />for a special tour. The slave cemetery there could be highlighted too. We need to consider <br />the audience that we hope to reach. Can we include/reach kids? Is there a way to <br />incorporate the Occaneechi Village if there is progress on that? We should take <br />advantage of publicly-owned sites. The courthouse might lend itself well to being a focal <br />point—many have never toured it. There is the Hollow Rock store and even the law office. <br />Just a tour of all of these places--all are examples of different types of historic resources <br />of different periods, could do a booklet about these. Also the White Cross School (1930s <br />landmark) or the Expedition School, in the Eno Mill, or even Bellevue Mill that is underway <br />now. Hands-on activities will appeal to kids, like coming in to clean artifacts. Do we have <br />artifacts that could be brought out for a day? There are a lot of artifacts available at <br />Blackwood Farm. Members should come to the next meeting with their list of possibilities <br />to share with the group. Staff could compile this into a list and share with members. We <br />can promote a property every day through the month, and perhaps create events every <br />week. Let our promotion build up every day, then have experiential events weekly? What <br />about social media? Do we have a Twitter or Facebook account? The County tourism <br />folks could tackle this for us. Could the HPC have its own Facebook Account? <br /> <br />c. Member ideas about activities and meeting topics: <br />Staff raised the question about what sorts of things the HPC would like to do when we <br />have meetings without much on the agenda. Members will think about this and bring back <br />ideas to the next meeting. <br /> <br />ITEM #6: UPDATES AND INFORMATION ITEMS <br /> <br />a. Report Back from Book Committee: <br />Staff provided a brief update on the outline that they are working on. <br /> <br />b. Courthouse Restoration Project: <br />Funding is being proposed for the county capital budget for a major phased restoration <br />and preservation program for the Courthouse over the next three or four years. <br /> <br />c. Other updates: <br />The Hollow Rock store has been moved and is undergoing restoration now. Occaneechi <br />Village will have a workday on Saturday Feb. 25. Colonial Inn continues to drag on. <br /> <br />d. Open Air Time for members to share information <br />Menius shared an update about the DOT MPO plan that was presented last week; it <br />stated that if all the proposals were carried out there would be no traffic problems by 2040! <br /> <br />ITEM #7: ADJOURNMENT: White moved to adjourn, seconded by Loter; meeting adjourned at 9:14 <br />pm <br /> <br />Meeting summary by Peter Sandbeck, DEAPR staff