Our first project of the season was at Death Valley this year, and who better to lead the crew than one of our favorites, Kat Weisbecker? Kat has been working for HistoriCorps as a crew leader for just one year now but she quickly became known for her delicious camp cooked meals and her hard work [...]
This month, volunteers traveled to Death Valley, California to restore the historic wall surrounding the CCC barracks at Cow Creek Camp. What was involved in the restoration? Brick making. That's right, 14 volunteers learned how to make adobe bricks, and boy did they make some bricks! In total, over a two week period, volunteers created [...]
At the end of 2016, HistoriCorps was awarded a $300,000 grant by the Cameron Foundation to continue work with our new initiative, HistoriCorps Institute. The grant provides enough funding for HistoriCorps to open an East Coast office and to hire a Regional Marketing and Administrative Manager to support the HistoriCorps Institute director. The grant comes on the [...]
It's a new year, and like each of you, we have a few bucket list items to cross off and self improvement goals to achieve this 2017. And there's no better way to make sure we fulfill those goals than by telling all our friends about them so you can be sure to hold us [...]
This 2016, you outdid yourselves. Thank you, volunteers, crew leaders, field supervisors, and sponsors. What a year we had! In just eight months, we had almost 400 volunteers save more than 30 historic buildings all across America. Bravo, HistoriCorps! We wanted to give you all a little idea of what happened this year, so here [...]
Here at HistoriCorps, we've been busy getting ready for the 2017 season, but we wanted to stop for half a minute and take a look at our - your - accomplishments, specifically, the media we've received over the past year. In total we've had over 40 news articles and features published about our projects and our [...]
Liz Rice is our brand-new Volunteer Manager, joining us on November 30 this year. She's already been a great addition to our growing team, and is eager to meet each and every one of you! She's busy preparing for the upcoming 2017 season, reviewing volunteer forms, checking out swag, and readying project pages for posting. [...]
Annemarie Balfe is a HistoriCorps newbie. Her very first HistoriCorps volunteer project was at Forest Lodge this past summer. After showing exceptional skill and patience at her second project, Black River Harbor, we gave her a call and asked her to be a crew leader for the remainder of the season. Annemarie accepted, and she quickly [...]
Get to know Dominic Ruffalo, who has been helping restore historic buildings with HistoriCorps since last year. Dominic is one of the younger members of our teams, having recently graduated college. He has high aspirations and hopes that his time spent on projects will help him land a job in the restoration field. His work is invaluable [...]
Just two weeks ago, our Clear Springs project saw its busiest day yet - one dozen volunteers took paintbrush, hammer, and wheelbarrow in hand to help restore the lakeside pavilion. What made it such a popular place? Teacher Gary Hurst heard about the Clear Springs volunteer opportunity and thought it would be a perfect fit [...]
