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Volunteers Welcome!
There are lots of volunteer opportunities
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| Do you like history and historic objects? Working with children and adults? Have some spare time? Want to meet new people and get involved in the community? Then consider volunteering at the Greeley Museums. Adult Volunteers: Download the volunteer application. Just complete the form
and mail to the Museums at 714 8th St., Greeley, CO 80631.
Volunteers of all ages and with all interests are welcome at the Museums. Volunteers work at all four museum sites: Centennial Village, the Meeker Home, Greeley History Museum and Plumb Farm Learning Center.
The Museums are fortunate to have many enthusiastic Junior Volunteers, ages 14-21, who assist with summer camps, programs and other special events during the year. Young people who are home-schooled and available to assist with living history festivals on weekdays are always welcome. Download a Junior Volunteer Special Events form.
Some volunteer opportunities are ongoing: assist archives
researchers; museum store sales; general clerical assistance and
mailings; painters,"fix-it people," landscape helpers; flyers and poster
distributors; musicians and dancers for special programs and festivals;
cookie bakers. And here's a month-by-month calendar of needs.
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All Year long: Tour guides and
gallery docents at the Greeley History Museum
April Tour guides at Centennial Village; helpers at Baby Animal
Days at the Plumb Farm; Selma's Store assistants; landscape helpers at
Centennial Village; assistance with gardens at Plumb Farm.
May Tour guides at Centennial Village and Meeker Home; Selma's
Store assistants; gardeners; historic house docents for free Saturday;
demonstrators, assistants to demonstrators and general helpers with High
Plains History Fest.
June Historic house docents for free Saturday; tour guides at
Centennial Village and Meeker Home; Selma's Store assistants; gardeners.
July People to help with games and activities, food service,
entertainment at Nathan Meeker birthday party; Pets 'n' Popsicles at the
Plumb Farm; tour guides at Centennial Village and Meeker Home; Selma's
Store assistants; gardeners.
August Gate workers, tour guides and
actors at "Spirits of Greeley's Past" program; tour guides at
Centennial Village and Meeker Home; Selma's Store assistants; gardeners.
September Gate workers, games and activities assistants at September's Potato
Day festival; historic house docents for free Saturday; demonstrators,
assistants to demonstrators and general helpers with Autumn
Adventure History Fest; tour guides at Centennial Village and Meeker Home;
Selma's Store assistants.
October Decorators, gate workers, candy distributors and games
assistants at Trick or Treat nights at Centennial Villate; historic
house docents for free Saturday; tour guides at Centennial Village;
Selma's Store assistants.
November Help with putting up holiday decorations at Centennial
Village
December Historic house docents, gate workers, help with craft activities, living history
demonstrations at Prairie KidsFest, help with the dinner/tours
the first week of the month.
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We need people who can demonstrate trades and occupations like blacksmithing, printing, 
horseshoeing; domestic chores like old-fashioned
laundry, woodstove cooking and baking, butter making; arts like
spinning, weaving, embroidery, lace-making; and other chores
common to a century ago like ropemaking, corn shelling and
grinding, etc. New living history demonstrators or "apprentices"
are always needed. We can use musicians, storytellers, and
dancers for several festivals presented annually.
Being a tour guide or docent involves several hours of training
by staff members. And tour guides need to have enough stamina to
lead a group of 15 people on an hour and a half tour. But the
rewards are great.
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