Visitor Information
Volunteer Page
Welcome Volunteers!
We are delighted that you have chosen to volunteer at the Joel Lane Museum House. Volunteers are key to making this wonderful heritage site available to the public.
*When you come to our campus, please leave your valuables at home—we have no secure storage space. In winter, please leave outer wear in the car—we don’t have a coat rack either.
*If you are coming to help out at an event that is at night or on the weekend, please park in the lot directly across the street from the Visitors Center beside the RED brick building, behind the beige brick building to the right closest to St. Mary’s Street (marked law office only), in the lot at the back with a red & white tow-away sign (you will not be towed at July 4 or Christmas Open House, only!) or off Morgan St. beside the gray house opposite the Junior League building (in the side lot but not in the rear) so that our guests may park on the street. Do not park in the lot adjacent to the Visitors Center—you will be towed after 8:00 pm.
To download the volunteer registration form required of all volunteers, please click here: Registration_form_for_Vols.2009_.05_.08_.doc
To download a biography of Joel Lane, please click here: Biography_of_Joel_Lane_rev_2010.12_.16_.doc
To download Guidelines for Volunteers at Special Events, click here: Guidelines_for_Volunteers_at_Special_Events.2008_.10_.21_.doc
To download the Costume Guidelines, click here: Costumes.Guidelines_For_Females_.2011_.05_.23_.2_.doc or
Costume_Guidelines_for_Male_Docents.2010_.07_.13_.doc
To download the Detailed Tour Outline, click here:
To download the Slave Tour, click here: SlaveTour_2009.02_.12_.doc
To download the Human Geography Tour, click here: Human_GeogrTour.2009_.01_.12_.doc
To download the lesson plan for Men’s and Ladies’ Bags: Gender Roles, click the following link: Division_of_Labor_Gender_Roles.2009_.04_.pdf
To download the Lesson for the Colonial Schooling module of Hands-On History, click here.
To download the Glossary for the Liar’s Club module, click here: School_pres.Liars_club_.2008_.05_.08_.comp_.doc
To download the Lesson for Work and Play/Chores vs. Toys, click here: SchoolPres-WorkPlay_(2).2008_.10_.09_.doc
To download the Lesson on Colonial Clothing, click here: SchoolPres-Clothes.2008.05.06.doc.
To download the lesson on Life Without Electricity, click here: LIFE_WITHOUT_LIGHTS.2009_.11_.12_.pdf
To download the lesson on Artistic Expressions, click here: Artist_Expressions.CCCurriculum_4_c_1_2_-_.pdf
To download “Tea Drinking in 18th Century America,” click here: Tea_Drinking_in_18th_Century_America_-_Its_Etiquette_and_Equipage.pdf
To download the Garden Tour, click here: Garden_Tour.2010_.07_.02_.doc Many thanks to Laura Willer, former garden co-chair, for such a splendid tour!
You are welcome to borrow books from the Joel Lane library. To see our book list, google Library Thing and log in with joellanehouse and password wake1771.
UpcomingSchedule:
Saturday, September 21, 9am-4pm-Yates Mill Harvest Celebration; need 2 docents (Will, Catherine).
Friday, September 27, 10am- Wake Forest Middle School, 8 6-8th graders w/ autism; need one docent (Will, Teri).
Saturday, October 5, 10am-4pm- Oak View Farm Fest; need 2 docents (Will, one more).
Friday, October 18, 10am-11:30am- Olds School, 57 3rd graders; need 5 docents (Teri, Will), need two more).
Saturday, October 26 8am-6pm- River of Yesteryear, tin punching; need 2 docents (Lanie, Will).
Saturday, December 7- Christmas Open House. All hands on deck!
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Images of African Americans at work (Pictured are re-enactors from Colonial Williamsburg):
