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 1. Download "Friends" Membership application, click above (adobe acrobat ™ .PDF) 2. Print it out 3. Fill it out 4. Mail it with your check via conventional mail to: Friends of Scull Shoals, Inc. P.O. Box 295 Greensboro, GA 30642 What can you do to help? Friends of Scull Shoals is an entirely volunteer organization. There are no paid staff, nor are there plans for any immediately. Thus, everything that happens, gets done because someone cared enough to give it his or her attention, time and effort. With enough volunteers, a lot of good work gets done. Without them, very little happens. We can use your help. See if your talents fit somewhere in this list. Tour guides: Currently, we need folks who are willing to be trained to be tour guides at the site. This means taking the written histories and other information we have and learning about the village in some depth. Then take a tour with us, to see what the guides are expected to do and say. We will be scheduling many more tours in the future, and the more guides we have, the less strain on any one of them. If you like history, and like to meet and talk to people in an outdoors environment, we need you. Clean-up crews for work days: Routine cleanup and mowing at Scull Shoals is done by the fine Forest Service Older American workers. However, in order to keep the place looking extra nice for our tour visitors, and to expand the area of visibility in the village, we need to schedule quarterly work days, to do things like cutting back the privet that has taken over the edges of the village, building and maintaining trails, and maintaining signs and other facilities. Again, the more willing hands to do the work, the easier it is for everyone. We need you; no experience necessary! Public Relations: Letting the public know what is happening at Scull Shoals is important, to build membership and public awareness of the educational and recreational potential of the Scull Shoals area. Articles in the newspapers, announcements on the radio and TV certainly help do that. They should be well-written, accurate, up-to-date, and on time to support the activities at the site. Photographs always enhance the announcements and articles submitted to the news media. If you have these talents, we are looking for you. Exhibit design: We will be designing and installing a series of exhibits at the site and elsewhere, telling the story of the history of Scull Shoals and its people. We will also tell about the recent work there by passport In Time, University faculty and students, Forest Service employees, and Friends volunteers, to enliven the old mill village. The exhibits will use text and photos, and perhaps artifacts, to illustrate the lives of the Scull Shoals people of the past. Combining these takes special training and talents. If you have them, we need you. Curriculum planners: One of the long-term plans for Scull Shoals Educational Center is that it will provide programs coordinated with the local schools' curricula, to teach history, anthropology, biological sciences, technology, environmental education, and other subjects. If you have skills in these areas, and contacts within the schools, then we need you, too! Planners and fund raisers: As the educational programs of Scull Shoals grow, they will need funding beyond what memberships alone can generate. We need people who can help plan for future activities and facilities, work out the fiscal and regulatory needs, and raise the money, through writing grant proposals and applying for major donations of money, expertise, and materials. If you have these talents, we need you.  |
