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District Meeting in Yanceyville Report
Posted at 07:32 PM on Sunday, August 8, 2010 by dist6
Our August District Meeting as a great success with a strong showing of members from each district post.
Our department guests, Department Jr. Vice Commander Ted Briggs and Department Auxiliary President Janet Butterworth, enjoyed their visit and were very laudatory in their comments.
We shared a lot of new information. District Commander Ken Sellers, and both the Sr. and Jr. Vice Commanders, is ready to assist you with local visits and special training. We had a very successful year for 2009-2010 and this year can be the same, if not better.
A special thank you goes to Post Commander Fred Smith for hosting us. His post was very well presented with at least 20% of their members attending. The meal was great and plentiful.
District meetings are a vital part of our communication process. They also give us an opportunity to talk to the leadership of other posts and learn from each other. Consider expanding the experience by visiting your neighboring posts and participating in their meetings. Take a carload from your post and go on a road trip. The receiving post will welcome the visit and interaction with your members.
Our next district meeting is on Sunday, November 14th, in Henderson. Put it on your calendars now.
Some of the attendees continued the day with a visit to the Caswell County Historical Association’s Richmond-Miles Museum and County Courthouse. There were a lot are a lot of stories on local history shared. The tour guide, Sterling Carter, gave a tour where the group
· learned about local origin and accidental discovery of Bright Leaf tobacco,
· the work of local cabinet maker and free black craftsman Thomas Day,
· the dispensing of local justice in the case of Senator John W. “Chicken” Stephens,
· the story of midwife Henrietta Jeffries and her novel trial in 1911 for “practicing medicine,”
· the discovery of an 1840’s tobacco and slave ledger containing important historical information, and
· the construction and history of the Caswell County Courthouse
If you would like to share in their tour, click on the links above for what they found. Next, watch the video below.
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