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| Museum Gets Help From Inmates |
| By trinidad-times.com |
| Published: 02/01/2011 |
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Anyone looking for a fun and rewarding volunteer experience should contact the Trinidad History Museum. Help is needed for a variety of both indoor and outdoor activities at the museum. Gardening work is especially in need this year as the museum staff works to control invasive species while maintaining and improving the extensive gardens at the one city block location housing four separate museums and a bookstore. Museum staff gets help with some of the heavy labor by workers from the Department of Corrections, but that’s only one park of the workload. The museum’s Baca-Bloom Heritage Gardens need to be planted anew each spring, and involve a lot of work. The gardens feature native plants from pioneer days, along with plants brought from Europe by immigrants seeking work in the flourishing mining and railroad industries of a century ago. An annual ethnic garden is featured on the grounds of the museum. Plants from Greece will be featured this year, in line with the large number of Greek immigrants who came to this area. Several Greek-Americans have helped out so far with seeds and plantings from their own gardens, to help the museum’s staff produce the plants whose herbs and spices make Greek food so flavorful. Events celebrating Greek-American heritage will be going on throughout the summer. Read More. |
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