Our recent celebration of the Quaboag Founding in 1660 was a most joyous occasion. Thank you all for coming and for your individual contribution to its success. Renewing our family connections and being together with our Pokanoket neighbors was a warm, wonderful and colorful delight. I think our forebears would have been proud of our renewed 'neighborliness'. Everybody seemed to have had a good time. I sure did.

It may be a while before we can all get together again, but here are a few ways we can 'follow up' that will help us share the memories and make them last .

Requests for copies of the Planter and Pokanoket Proclamations are dribbling in and Bill Jankins, the Chair of the event, has asked us to find out how many still want a copy so he can know how many more to print. They will be available for sale from the QHS.

Since we don't have everyone's email address, please forward this email to other family and friends who might also like to have copies of the Proclamations or who could send in pictures for the Master Portfolio.

We are trying to collect and make a MASTER PORTFOLIO of all the best pictures that were taken at the 350 celebration. We'll select the 80 to 100 most representative of all the events from all the submissions and make a CD of them. With the video clips of the events, we'll try to make a master video. The Quaboag Historical Society will have these for sale also.

It's possible that the QHS might make a commemorative booklet of the 350 celebration and we want to have all the pictures and documents available for them. More on that later.

It was wonderful seeing all of you in West Brookfield. Thanks again for coming and making this reunion such a special event.

Warm regards,

Stephen Prichard

PS We urge all of you who have not become members of the Quaboag Historical Society to do so ASAP . It's a great way for us to stay in touch. They will try to have a section in each newsletter about descendants and the Pokanoket. (QHS, West Brookfield, Mass. , 01585 )