Huntley Project Museum

History of the Homesteaders

Newsletter

Date: 00/00/00

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

Any museum needs volunteers and Huntley Project Museum (HPM) is certainly no exception.  This year promises to be busier than ever and HPM needs extra help — badly.  Just look at the year’s schedule of upcoming events on page 4. 

           Proud of your family’s roots or your roots just as an American?  Homesteader Days, an HPM staple, always needs help with greeting the visitors  and manning the gate.

          

 

 

 

 

 

          

 

 

 

           Do you like horses and want to be as sociable as they are?  With a third HPM staple, we could use extra help for  Horsefest 2006.  Hopefully, nothing will stop us this year from putting on this popular event.  Extra help will be needed all weekend long, from set-up to tear down.  The noon meal will especially require extra folks.

           Finally, since the Smithsonian will house their traveling exhibit, called Key Ingredient with us for 12 days, we could use your cooking skills and/or any old recipes you are willing to share. 

           The above events are just some specifics.  However, there is the bank from Pompey’s Pillar in need of painting and the new machine sheds and workshop.  The inside of the museum proper and all the other buildings with artifacts could use a very fine, detailed cleaning.  The grounds need some donated landscaping, such as flowering bushes requiring low to no maintenance or whatever comes to your mind and budget.  Plus, the grounds always need trash stashing, weeding and whatever else is necessary.

           Technological and carpentry skills are always needed but there are so many things to be done that anyone can help out, even the kids.  As a matter of fact, you could bring your children and just make it a family activity.  In the near future, HPM will have a computer set up for visitors to use for historical and familial historical research, thus data entry help will be very necessary to expedite the project.

           While helping out here at HPM, meet wonderful people, make new friends, learn so much and have a ball doing it.  What a payoff!

           Just one more thought for you to think about.  When I was 11 years old, my father left this earth within 24 hours — quick and to the point, just as he lived.  This was 1962 and he was born in 1903.  My mother, quite a bit younger

than Dad, told me to take a tape recorder to my aunts and uncle to not only learn about him but also to learn how (next page)

           With the Lewis & Clark 200 Years celebration at Pompey’s Pillar down the road from here, you can be sure we will get some extra traffic.  We will need help with the Gift Shop, currently being revamped, not to mention  the early hour opening during the Lion’s Club breakfast.

           The Threshing Bee, another HPM staple, is another time we can use extra help, as people are all over the property drawn by their special interest in tractors and the early days.