Volunteer Opportunities at the Museum

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STEP BACK INTO THE 1950s WITH US

The 1950s Park Forest House Museum Needs Volunteers!!!

Come exchange stories about your youth. Spend time surrounded by familiar toys, dolls, and household furnishings.

It's really fun to show the museum!

Lots of great publicity from the Chicago Tribune article, February 3, 2008, & from the AARP Bulletin in March 2008 have brought people from all over! We expect more coverage, soon. People from all over the country have contacted us about visiting. We need volunteers there when they come!

The Museum is not just about Park Forest History!

It is an original rental townhome furnished as it might have been from 1948-1953. We have dolls, toys, books, clothing, galoshes, holiday decorations, a classroom from Forest Boulevard School, artwork from 1950s artists bought at 1950s Art Fairs, cloth diapers, a wringer washer, a bathinette and more!

When is the last time you said, "Hi" to Howdy Doody?

Volunteering means taking a turn every once in a while, giving tours to folks who come by on Saturdays 1-3 p.m.

We are booking group tours during the week. We need some who can be "on call" for visitors who can't come on Saturday. We would like to have two guides on Saturdays, open some hours during the week, and extend our Saturday hours in the future.

Volunteer with you neighbor, best friend, sibling, child, grandchild, or spouse. If there are no visitors, you get a chance to visit. If there are lots, you have a great time sharing!

Please come give this a try! We will train you.

We accept students who need community service hours.

Contact Jane Nicoll, Director

Other Volunteers We Need at the Museum

• We need people to help clean--light dusting of furniture and wood floors, shaking out of rugs.
• People are needed to help decorate for the seasons or for the holidays, and to help pack the decorations away.
• After rainfall, we need people to help shop-vac the basement and possibly to check and care for collection pieces stored there.
• Our yard work is done by Central Park Townhomes, but we do pick up branches and paper around the property.
• We sometimes need to clean the bathroom, including the bathtub.
• Volunteers are needed to go in and check on the property throughout the week, check for water in the basement, any surprise leaks or broken windows, let the treasurer know there is mail. In ten years, we have never had a security issue-- just one broken window in a storm door due to high winds.