It is so refreshing to see this summer’s calendar filling up with in-person programs. If you’ve already peeked at the “Upcoming Events” section of this newsletter, then you probably noticed that many of our summer programs will be held on the Historical Society campus. It will be fantastic to see visitors on our grounds again!
All of us here at the Mount Prospect Historical Society are also eager to welcome everyone back into our buildings for research, rentals, and tours. We are currently planning this stage of reopening and hope to allow visitors inside buildings by the end of this year, providing it is safe to do so. Please watch our website and social media accounts for future reopening updates.
Part of reopening, however, will require your help. We are currently looking for volunteer tour guides to lead tours of the Dietrich Friedrichs House. Lena and Dietrich Friedrichs built this home in 1906, and at the time, it was the thirteenth house in town. Today it is both a museum and the home of the Mount Prospect Historical Society. All of us at the Historical Society love this historic building, and you can help us show off this beautiful home as a volunteer tour guide! Becoming a volunteer tour guide is a wonderful way to share local history with your community, as well as learn more about it yourself. More information on volunteer responsibilities and the volunteer application form can be found on our website: https://www.mtphist.org/volunteer/
If you’d like to help the Historical Society in other ways, we have plenty of opportunities to volunteer with us once we fully reopen. In addition to house tours, we offer hands-on experiences working with the artifact collection and researching topics in local history. As we begin resuming in-person programs, we will need volunteers to help at many of our events. There is always household maintenance that needs to be done too, so if your talent is fixing things around the house, we could certainly use your talent. Whatever time or talent you’d like to share with the Historical Society, we’d be happy to have you. Please fill out the volunteer application form on our website to become a volunteer.
Have a wonderful summer, readers, and I hope to see many of you join us as volunteers!