Volunteers can fit their backgrounds and interests to tasks such as maintaining photo archives and keeping records. Sewing help is needed to mend the textile collection. Volunteers wanted for general filing and cataloging items. Walkers and talkers are needed as tour guides. You can help maintain the grounds, restore buildings or give tours at the onetime home of William Cullen Bryant.
Volunteers work in the society's library, researching artifacts and photographs.
The society is restoring and renovating a Sears Roebuck house, which will be used as its headquarters. Volunteers are wanted to help clean the site and do painting and plasterboard work. If all goes well, the house will be ready a year from now, and volunteers will be needed to help organize materials, serve as tour guides, catalog items and maintain the site. The National Park Service needs people to give lighthouse and William Floyd Estate tours, run educational programs, assist at visitors' centers, conduct research on birds and ticks, work on planning, help set up a library at park offices in Patchogue, and pitch in with maintenance and painting. Sometimes volunteers get to write articles dealing with local history.