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HELP BRING HISTORY TO LIFE: VOLUNTEER
County Historical Society Seeks Docents and Other Helpers
CAMDEN, N.J. -- The Camden County Historical Society seeks volunteers to work in its library, museum and Pomona Hall -- the three-story, 18th-century home of the Cooper family.
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| Photo: Hoag Levins |
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| Be a docent. Learn how to help the public appreciate what our ancestors' life was like.
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Live history
If you have an interest in the daily life and art of homekeeping in colonial days, why not become a docent in Pomona Hall? Docents serve as tour guides, explaining and pointing out everything from the beehive oven used in open-hearth cooking demonstrations to the ear trumpet found in the dowager's bedroom of Pomona Hall.
Library help
If books and a love of order are more to your liking, the library needs your help in organizing incoming materials, filing and shelving, and answering the Society's growing demand for genealogical research by mail. You say you're a collector whose interests range from Lenni-Lenape arrowheads to South Jersey blown glass? You'd be a natural for the museum, working with historical artifacts, cataloguing the material
and helping the curator update the Society's collection.
We train you
The Society provides thorough on-site training for all volunteer positions. So if you have a keen interest in history, habitually haunt libraries and museums, seek to learn new skills or put old ones to use, please contact the Camden County Historical Society, located just behind Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, at the corner of Park Boulevard and Euclid Avenue in residential Parkside.
Who to contact
The Society is open Tuesday through Thursday, 12:30 PM to 4:30 PM, and Sunday from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM. Please call (856) 964-3333 or e-mail johnreidseitter@aol.com for more information.
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