The Sheenboro Archives held its first St. Patrick’s tea at the municipal hall on Sunday afternoon, and hopes to turn the event into an annual one. 

Archives member Tim Doyle explained that the group had packed the hall for the event, the first of this kind, which included live music and a historical presentation.

“A lot of people from different communities have come,” he said. “We are doing Irish music and in a short while there’ll be a presentation on one of the founding Sullivan families that came to Sheen back in the 1840s and ‘50s.”

Doyle said that there were around eight or nine members of the archives, which officially opened in June 2024. 

“The municipality got a grant and fixed up a room downstairs and over the last couple years we’ve been able to acquire computers, printers, subscriptions to ancestry.com and other resources,” he said. “A lot of people in the community have been donating pictures and other historical artifacts to us based on genealogical information.”

He said that in the future they’d like to have more events and presentations about the different founding families of Sheen.