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10/19/2017 12:01 AMMost people know the Shoreline Trolley Museum at 17 River Street, East Haven has volunteer trolley operators and car restoration folks, but more volunteers are needed.
The museum’s seasonal events require people to set-up, break down, and also people to help make visitors feel welcome. Upcoming events include:
• The Haunted Isle now through the end of October, on Friday and Saturday evenings. Volunteers are needed for crowd control, greeters, and general information assistants.
• The Pumpkin Patch runs Saturdays and Sundays through Sunday, Oct. 29 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Volunteers are needed to serve as greeters, people who can help with crafts, people who can help keep the trolley yard and pumpkin patch tidy, and still more people who can help with the refreshment station. Volunteers are also needed to help set up before and during the event as well as people who can help break down the event after it’s over.
• Santa’s Winter Wonderland is coming up. This year, lots of festivities include enhanced decorations and lights from the Sprague Station ticket window right down into the trolley yard. Volunteers are needed to be greeters, craft assistants, people who can help keep the trolley yard tidy, and people who can assist at the refreshment stand. Like to decorate for the holidays? Volunteers are also needed to help set up and/or put things away. Want to be one of Santa’s helpers? A member of a choral group? The museum is seeking just about anything that would add to the family holiday festivities.
There are always other volunteer positions available
• For public speakers, the museum’s newly formed Speakers Bureau will be holding an introductory meeting on Monday, Oct. 23 in the evening. More to follow on this, but in a nutshell it’s going to outside organizations to spread the word about the museum and its history.
• Retired educators or those looking to fill some empty summer hours will be needed in 2018 to work on children’s programs.
• Love to tell the story of the trolley but don’t want to run one? That’s OK, too! Summer season museum guide positions available.
There are even more opportunities. Marketing people, IT and communications people, electro-mechanical enthusiasts, back office and accounting people, painters, carpenters, lawn and garden care enthusiasts and master gardeners all can find a place to spend some volunteer time at the Shore Line Trolley Museum.
Finally, the museum has an opening for a volunteer track foreman for someone with specific knowledge of railroad track work.
For more information, call the museum at 203-467-6927 or email info@shorelinetrolley.org.
The Branford Electric Railway Association, founded in 1945, serves as the oldest continuously operated suburban street railway in the United States. The museum was entered into the Register of Historic Places in 1983. Museum volunteers offer tours of meticulously restored antique street railway cars and provide a multi-sensory visit with rides along approximately 1.5 miles of railway that first opened to the public on July 31, 1900.