Georgetown / Delaware / United States
In early 2007 Historic Georgetown Association will be fourteen years old. We were born with only a three year life expectancy but didnt someone say "keeping busy is the secret to a longer life"? Obviously, as the following shows, we have kept busy. After a series of meetings held in the winter and the spring of 1993 by Mayor Booth, councilpersons Mabel Givens and Sue Barlow, Chamber members Steve Pepper, and, Rosalie Walls, Georgetown Business Association members Frank Perdue, Toby Givens and Wayne Meluney and a group of townspeople all joined together by one common thread - their love and concern for the county seat. A Chairman was chosen with the immediate task of forming a non-profit and choosing a group of officers and directors. The committees mission was to provide guidance and resolve problems during a time of change being experienced in most small towns. In few towns was this change more dramatic than in Georgetown. An almost overnight influx of immigrants unable to speak our language or quickly adjust to our ways and customs created huge problems but their willingness to work and the protective arms of the churches helped ease the strain. In the nearly fourteen years since those meetings in early 1993 Historic Georgetown Association: * * Has held well over 120 meetings and conferences with local and state officials, poultry plant owners and reps, church social and health workers concerning immigrant issues. * Has met with Housing Authorities and groups regularly in Delaware but also in Baltimore and Salisbury. * Have published, printed and distributed thirty-six reports and brochures (over 13, 000 copies)
