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Clearinghouse for Volunteers: Fortress of Nightmares
Tricia Williams
Issue date: 10/4/07 Section: Editorial/Opinion
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10/04/07 - Is Halloween your favorite holiday, or at least one you really enjoy? Have you already decided what this year's costume will be? Do you look forward each year to spending a Friday night touring the local haunted houses? Have you ever wanted to be one of the costumed creatures in a haunted house or one of the creative minds that helps develop special effects and scary scenes? Well this is your chance...even if you'd prefer just to sell tickets.
The Fort Adams Trust needs volunteers to participate in its Halloween production of "Fortress of Nightmares," an after dark guided tour of Historic Fort Adams taking visitors into spooky areas of the fort not usually seen on regular tours and telling tales based on the legends and folklore associated with Fort Adams.
Volunteers are needed to play character roles, take tickets and manage admission to the fort, and to assist with the design, building and installation of scenery and special effects. Some of the characters to be portrayed by our volunteers will include soldiers, pirates, flu victims, vagrants, fire victims, a surgeon, sleepwalkers and more. The event will take place, weather permitting, during the last two weekends in October (Oct. 19-21 and Oct. 26-28) with ticket sales beginning at 6:30 p.m. and ending at 9 p.m. Volunteers are asked to arrive at 5:30 p.m. and can expect to leave by 10 p.m., after the last tour has gone through.
Interested volunteers will need to be available for training and rehearsals several times during the two weeks preceding the event. While we know this is late notice, the Fort Adams Trust is holding a volunteer meeting today at 5:30 p.m. in the Fort Adams Visitor Center. This meeting is designed to show volunteers what the performances will be and to help them decide where they would like to help. If you cannot make the meeting today, rehearsals will be held during the two weeks preceding the event, and volunteers can get caught up to speed on those nights.
If this sounds like the volunteer experience you've been waiting for, or just one you would like to try, please contact Robert J. McCormack at 401-841-0707 or by e-mail at rmccormack@fortadams.org.
And as usual, this isn't the only volunteer opportunity available. If you have a desire to get involved with this or other projects and organizations, come see us in Roosevelt 125, call us at 401-874-2568, or e-mail cfv@etal.uri.edu.
The Fort Adams Trust needs volunteers to participate in its Halloween production of "Fortress of Nightmares," an after dark guided tour of Historic Fort Adams taking visitors into spooky areas of the fort not usually seen on regular tours and telling tales based on the legends and folklore associated with Fort Adams.
Volunteers are needed to play character roles, take tickets and manage admission to the fort, and to assist with the design, building and installation of scenery and special effects. Some of the characters to be portrayed by our volunteers will include soldiers, pirates, flu victims, vagrants, fire victims, a surgeon, sleepwalkers and more. The event will take place, weather permitting, during the last two weekends in October (Oct. 19-21 and Oct. 26-28) with ticket sales beginning at 6:30 p.m. and ending at 9 p.m. Volunteers are asked to arrive at 5:30 p.m. and can expect to leave by 10 p.m., after the last tour has gone through.
Interested volunteers will need to be available for training and rehearsals several times during the two weeks preceding the event. While we know this is late notice, the Fort Adams Trust is holding a volunteer meeting today at 5:30 p.m. in the Fort Adams Visitor Center. This meeting is designed to show volunteers what the performances will be and to help them decide where they would like to help. If you cannot make the meeting today, rehearsals will be held during the two weeks preceding the event, and volunteers can get caught up to speed on those nights.
If this sounds like the volunteer experience you've been waiting for, or just one you would like to try, please contact Robert J. McCormack at 401-841-0707 or by e-mail at rmccormack@fortadams.org.
And as usual, this isn't the only volunteer opportunity available. If you have a desire to get involved with this or other projects and organizations, come see us in Roosevelt 125, call us at 401-874-2568, or e-mail cfv@etal.uri.edu.
