Volunteer Update

This is just a note to let you know about some upcom­ing events:

Sat­ur­day March 1,2008 at 7:30 p.m. at the Read­ing Room on Main & Library Streets. We would like to present Sto­ry­teller Baba Abio­dun (Phillip J. Har­ris). Through his sto­ry­telling and visual arts, he capures the imag­i­na­tions of chil­dren and adults with a sound reper­toire of ani­mal, folk, fam­ily and com­mu­nity tales. Please come join us for this spe­cial event.

Sat­ur­day March 8, 2008, at 7:30 p.m. at the Read­ing Room on Main & Library Streets.Performance in Drama & Song: We will rever­ber­ate with the beau­ti­ful voice of Sher­i­lyn Kyle who will per­form accom­pa­nied by Ms. Geneva Bost at the piano a selec­tion of music com­mem­o­rat­ing women in Black His­tory. We will also wel­come that evening a per­for­mance by Rev­erend Linda Cal­houn who will present a dra­matic inter­pre­ta­tion of Har­riet Tub­man in cos­tume and char­ac­ter. Please don’t miss this uplift­ing evening. Light refresh­ments will be served.

Sat­ur­day March 15, 2008 from 10 am — 1pm. The Mon­roe Town­ship His­tor­i­cal Soci­ety will host an Antique Road­show from Audubon Auc­tion­ners. at the Read­ing Room on Main St. & Library St. There will be a fee of $5.00 for every 2 items. For fur­ther infor­ma­tion con­tact the His­tor­i­cal Soci­ety at 856–875-2943

School Tours

Last year, we were able to host sev­eral school tours includ­ing a tour attended by the his­tory depart­ment heads of every school in the town­ship. These tours must take place dur­ing the school day and are gen­er­ally from 9:15 to 11:45 as the stu­dents come by bus or walk and return to school for the lunch period. We are in need of vol­un­teers who can come dur­ing the day and we thank all of our past vol­un­teers who have helped us with the school tours. We get such won­der­ful let­ters from the stu­dents and good feed­back from the teach­ers. Dr. Ter­rill, Super­in­ten­dent of Schools sup­ports our efforts in bring­ing Williamstown his­tory to our stu­dents so rest assured, this is good work that you are doing.

Sat­ur­day Open Houses

The idea for Sat­ur­day Open Houses has been sug­gested since the vol­un­teers who tra­di­tion­ally came on Thurs­days have dwin­dled down to a pre­cious few. If you can vol­un­teer on a Sat­ur­day, we can rotate the vol­un­teers so that you will only be oblig­ated per­haps two or three times. I do believe, how­ever, that we need to cou­ple these Sat­ur­days with either an exhibit or his­toric craft classes or some­thing that we can pub­li­cize that would draw vis­i­tors. Over the years as a vol­un­teer, I have learned that “being open” is one thing and “hav­ing vis­i­tors” are two very dif­fer­ent things. The County museum is open one Sun­day a month and cou­ples their open houses with spe­cific exhibits. Maybe we can learn from their success.

Field Trips

We have inter­est in a trip to the Blue Hole. Also, there is a great craft fair and open house at the Bat­sto Man­sion in Sep­tem­ber as well as a re-enactment at Red Bank Bat­tle­field on the Delaware which is such an inter­est­ing thing to attend. If we have peo­ple inter­ested, please call me and I will try to get a group together for these things.

That is all for now. I hope to see all of you in the com­ing year. I pray for your good health and trust you will join us again at the His­tor­i­cal Soci­ety. Please call me for more infor­ma­tion 856–629-3368.