Dear friends of Kinsale:  A schedule for Christmas in Kinsale 2012 follows below. Please come!  Please help if you can!   All the best, Museum Director Lynn Norris. (804-450-7651)

FIRST & FOREMOST: Has Ann Lewis reached you to find out if you will make cookies or candy or a cake for sale on Dec. 1 in the old Ice Cream Parlor or at the silent auction?  If she hasn’t already reached you, call her at 472-2344 to let her know how you can help!

A. Hiding Christmas gifts in your closets or cupboards?  Perhaps you will see one or two nice collectibles or pretty or useful things that you might be willing to donate to the silent auction for Christmas in Kinsale on Dec. 1.  You’d be surprised at how generous the bids are on these treasures, and for such a good cause!  Money from this goes to fund our substantial annual gifts to Social Services, which buys gifts for needy children and senior citizens.  Also, to making our community events festive.  Please bring your offerings to the Museum on Fridays and Saturdays.  They can reach us as late as Nov. 31 at 5 p.m. or if necessary on Dec. 1 by 10 a.m., but soonest is best.

B. We also collect and forward to Social Services things you may not need anymore, but which will help keep folks warm, or which would be nice stocking stuffers for elderly or disabled folks whose budget is severely challenged to pay for food, medicine, and heating oil.  Such as:

1.                gently used but still nice, warm, serviceable winter gloves, hats, mufflers, socks

2.                blankets, towels, quilts, laprobes and other linens

3.                pretty things like silk scarves, costume jewelry, etc.

4.                useful (new) toiletries

5.                Ensure or other food supplements (“good” dates, of course)

C.  We are getting names together for our Memorial Tree of “angels” WITH KINSALE CONNECTIONS who have passed away this year (since Dec. of last year’s Memorial Tree was lit).  These are beautifully printed up onto angels when Tammy Parks is decorating the tree in the Gazebo.  These are the angels we know of so far in alphabetical order by last name:

Anthony, Garnett; Ashton, Eddie; Ball, Daisey; Ball, Herbert; Barrack Jr., E.C.; Beale, Martha Frances; Blake, Manuir; Brown, Butch; Brown, Mary; Bunns, Elizabeth; Bunns, Wanda; Calvert, Stan; Conley, Wendell; Dameron, Billy; Dawson, William Linwood; Dietz, Patty; Dixon, Ferman; English, Ida V.; Fulcher, Mary; Hall, Brian; Hamilton Jr., James Hume; Hayes, Betty Mae Moss; Henry Jr., Moses; Henry, Joe; Johnson Jr., James W.; Johnson, Hayes; Jones, Chris; Kines, John Godlieb Sr.; Lee, Carolyn; Lee, Eunice B.; Lewis, Betty Baker; Mothershead, Bobby; Redfearn, Dorothy P.; Roane, Linwood; Shelton, Hermon; Smith, Johnny; Straughter, Mary; Sydnor, Ann; Tate, Debbie; Tate, Emma; Tate, John; Thomas, Naomi; Thompson, Zeb; Tolson, Mary; Turner, Robin; Washington, Tyrone; Wilson, Alex; Wilson, Judy; Wright, Sally Ann

If someone in your family has died and is NOT LISTED ABOVE, please e-mail museumdirector@gmail.com or call my cell phone at 804-450-7651 and leave a message with your phone number.  We like for someone to be present to represent each “angel” when we are lighting the tree.  You can also contribute to lights in your angels’ memory, see below.

My name is _________________________ My phone number is __________________

I attach a check which represents $5 per light

IN MEMORY of (friends and relatives who have passed away, no matter when)

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 IN HONOR of (friends and relatives who are still living)

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