Participating classes receive a free outreach program to coordinate the writing and a free one-year classroom subscription to the newsletter. Get your students involved in local history, folklore, research and writing. Jr. Docents Youth ages 8 and up volunteer during June and July each year to present programs with a historical theme at libraries throughout the county. Students 5th grade and up can learn more about the museum environment by spending one morning or afternoon per week volunteering at the Children's Museum or Hanley Farm talking with visitors, working on projects, and demonstrating lifeways of the past. Beekman Living History program Men, women, and teen volunteers are needed to portray the early 20th-century C.C. Beekman family and friends for visitors to the 1911 Beekman House in Jacksonville.
Teens portray the part of a piano student.
Training begins in April. Beekman House is open from Memorial Day through Labor Day. Volunteers must attend each of the six training sessions, and are asked to volunteer one day per week throughout the summer. New Discovery Boxes are being developed.