Grange Building Update
The Upper Valley Historical Society (UVHS) recently received positive results from two critically important engineering assessments before it could move ahead with the final portion of the feasibility study to lease the Chumstick Grange Hall property at 621 Front Street.
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PRESIDENT'S CORNER
Matt Cade | President, Greater Leavenworth Museum
In July 2018, I began my first of six years as the board president of the Upper Valley Historical Society. Because our bylaws state that board members can serve no more than two three-year terms, my last day on the board is June 30th. As a tribute to my parents, Edmund Ross Cade (1930–2019) and Bernice Evelyn Meyer Cade (1931–2023), who said they always did their best, I also did my best.
While we are working on plans to nominate a successor, I am confident that our ‘Museum on the Move’ momentum will continue to attract the kind of community leaders and talent to make a quality community asset even better.
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Project Glockenspiel: A Bavarian Renaissance
In 1965, the Tannenbaum Building at 645 Front Street was one of the first six buildings remodeled to mark the start of Project Alpine. As part of the renovation, the owners of the building, Bob Rodgers and Ted Price, created a space in the attic for a glockenspiel and dancing figurines.
The dancing figures still exist but are dusty and covered with bird droppings in the building’s dark attic space, hidden behind two curved wooden doors on the east side of the building. Kit Clark, whose family still lives in the area, carved the handsome wooden figures. Kit passed away in 2018 at age 73.
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GLM volunteer Tom Phillips and Tannenbaum building owner Robert Schichi discuss the future of the glockenspiel and dancing figures