Volunteering is one of life’s greatest rewards!

 Volunteer Opportunities

·        Costumed Interpreters – guide tours, play part of town citizen, host a building, or give demonstrations including: blacksmithing, carpentry, printing, cooking, baking, sewing, needlework, laundry, and churning butter.

·        One Room School Teachers

·        Musicians – including: violin/fiddle, guitar, banjo, piano/pump organ, harmonica, dulcimer, auto harp, accordion, brass instruments.

·        Singers – using period music, also barbershop quartets, vaudeville acts

·        Dancers – such as polkas and waltzes

·        Dakota City Players – perform 1^st and 3^rd person scenarios to entertain and educate visitors including: weddings, funerals, trials, public speaking, and gunfights.

·        Seamstress/Clothing Committee – sew, mend/repair clothing for volunteers to wear in the village. 

·        Collections and Exhibits – catalog books, photos, clothing, furniture and other artifacts.  Develop, research, and fabricate exhibits.

·        Concessions/Food Services/Gift Shop – prepare food and drink, greet and serve customers, handle food sales and keep the café clean.  Sites include: Dakota City Café, the Barn Door gift shop, Drugstore, lemonade cart, corn stand, and Chautauqua Tent.

·        Office Volunteers – assist as receptionist; answer the telephone; prepare mailings; type; file; run copies, collate, and fasten booklets, newsletters, and brochures.

·        Maintenance Volunteers – groundskeeper, paint, garden, carpentry, repair items, clean, and other general maintenance duties.

·        Special Event Support – preparation and set up, lot attendants, admission gate, drive tractors and/or guide trolleys, tend wood stoves, run errands, check on volunteers in buildings, shovel walkways

·        Machinery Committee – work on antique tractors used in parades.