Gurski Homestead Commission
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About the Gurski Homestead Commission
The Gurski Homestead Committee, a non-profit, non-partisan board of town citizens, appointed by and working under the umbrella of the Board of Selectmen, is dedicated to education and the conserving, preserving, and promoting of the Gurski homestead.
The committee, governed by the Brookfield town charter and Connecticut statutes, makes recommendations to the Board of Selectmen and the Conservation Commission concerning all uses of the Gurski property.
Its mission is to preserve the Gurski Homestead/Farm and to make available to the public its agricultural significance to the history of Brookfield and to educate the public of the heritage of agriculture in the state of Connecticut.
Current members of the committee are Barbara Golde, Robert Brown, Deborah
Choma, Elizabeth DeLambert, John Furlong, Judith Heise, Michael W. Murphy, Robert Pitcher, Peter Thompson,
Kim Willis, and Janice Howard, daughter of the late Stanley Gurski, who operated the farm for over 25 years.
