Gingerbread Volunteers

NEW INCENTIVE PROGRAM beginning Summer 2019
 
Volunteers remain the backbone of TIPLS as we continue to be advocates for historic preservation. From the board level to the individuals who offer their time as docents in the Shop and Resource Center or on various projects and committees, the efforts are essential to meet the purposes of this not-for-profit organization.

“Operation Gingerbread” was coined as the original name for the team who initiated the movement to preserve our Historic District back in the late ‘70s.
Picture
A gathering at an exhibit opening

Volunteer Incentive

This summer we launch a new VOLUNTEER INCENTIVE
program as a way to
THANK YOU for your efforts.
Earn rewards for your hours of service. 
 
10 hours - Specific gift from the SHOP
20 hours - $20 credit at the SHOP
40 hours - Edith Lunt Small print of TIP
Picture
Volunteers at work during one of the past House and Garden Tours
You can SPEND ‘em this summer, or BANK ‘em ‘til next season.
 (TIPLS Board members are not included in this program.)

Please Join Our Team of Volunteers

We are looking for the following:

  • Docents for the Shop – Volunteer to tend the shop & Resource Center  
    • Mondays – Saturdays - 11:00 am -2:00 pm
    • What day might work for you?
  • Archival work – spend a morning with our summer intern
  • Resource Center and library – feature weekly books, display resource materials, highlight cottages from 1 street per week
                                                 
                                 If interested in helping or learning more about these opportunities, stop into Landmark or contact Peg Hoyser – 585-729-4433 or phoyser@gmail.com
Picture
Staking out the Columbian Hotel Foundation
National Register Update Project  & 18th Cottage and Garden Tour
2 additional ways that we could use your help this summer
Details at Landmark or on the website, click here.

TIPLS joins the new TIP
YOUTH COMMUNITY SERVICE program


                    Young Historic Preservationists - Archivists 

  • Join in on the National Register Survey project and learn how to archive documents and organize materials for displays, weekdays at mutual convenience.
  • Help with: guided tours of the Park, the Cottage and Garden Tour, Chautauqua of the North - Talk and Walk.  Times arranged at mutual convenience and scheduled events.
  • Assist in scanning and archiving old Park photographs and documentation on Wednesday mornings during July and August.
 
           If you have interest in helping, contact Jean Ris, jris@wyomingseminary.org, or stop into the Landmark building during summer hours.
_________________________________