{"id":2171,"date":"2019-05-13T18:42:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T18:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/museum-concentration-test\/?p=2171"},"modified":"2019-05-22T17:11:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T17:11:05","slug":"volunteer-at-the-emily-dickinson-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/museum-concentration\/2019\/05\/13\/volunteer-at-the-emily-dickinson-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteer at the Emily Dickinson Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\">Volunteer<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h3>Join the Museum Team<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"drop-cap\">V<\/span>olunteers at the Emily Dickinson Museum fulfill a vital role in helping us to preserve and share Emily Dickinson\u2019s poetic legacy.\u00a0 They contribute expertise and enthusiasm, helping our programs to run smoothly, assisting young visitors with crafts and activities, weeding the Dickinson gardens, and putting\u00a0the essential pieces\u00a0and\u00a0finishing touches on special events.<\/p>\n<p>The Emily Dickinson Museum typically supports volunteers\u00a0<strong>May through October,<\/strong>\u00a0when most Museum programs and events take place.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteer opportunities in\u00a02019 include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Garden volunteers:\u00a0<\/strong>The Dickinson family gardens were extensive and rambling.\u00a0Our wet, cool summer has invited them to ramble too much!\u00a0 Contribute a few hours to weed the Homestead gardens and to re-shape The Evergreens\u2019s landscape.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Program volunteers<\/strong>: Many hands make light work for programs such as the annual Amherst Poetry Festival and Emily Dickinson Poetry Marathon in the fall, the nineteenth-century backyard circus in July, and more. Give a few hours to prepare craft activities for children new to poetry, to serve as an usher, or to prepare for Free Fun Friday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you are interested in volunteering at the Emily Dickinson Museum, please email\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:ebradley@EmilyDickinsonMuseum.org\">ebradley@emilydickinsonmuseum.org<\/a>\u00a0stating your areas of interest and relevant experience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volunteer Join the Museum Team Volunteers at the Emily Dickinson Museum fulfill a vital role in helping us to preserve and share Emily Dickinson\u2019s poetic legacy.\u00a0 They&hellip; <span class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/museum-concentration\/2019\/05\/13\/volunteer-at-the-emily-dickinson-museum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Volunteer at the Emily Dickinson Museum&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1783,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volunteer-opportunities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/museum-concentration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/museum-concentration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/museum-concentration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/museum-concentration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1783"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/museum-concentration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/museum-concentration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2172,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/museum-concentration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171\/revisions\/2172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/museum-concentration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/museum-concentration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/museum-concentration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}