| Volunteer Opportunities |
We provide the location and opportunity for volunteering in our community. Preservationist and environmentalist can find
a host of recreational and community service opportunities.
All ages find interesting things to do such as:
Make friends, socialize, help your community, spend time with others that have the same interests as you while enjoying
the peace found at this historical site.
a host of recreational and community service opportunities.
All ages find interesting things to do such as:
- reenacting,
- costumed tour guides,
- restorations,
- history detectives,
- sewing circles,
- quilting bees,
- woodworking,
- gardening,
- sugarcane grinding and syrup making,
- textiles and arts, and/or
- site development for the fort, park, and spring.
Make friends, socialize, help your community, spend time with others that have the same interests as you while enjoying
the peace found at this historical site.
| Education ● Protection ● Preservation ● Conservation ● History |
| Reflections of Manatee |
Looking for something to do?
Residents and visitors often attend many of the functions on site as the area. In this way you can relay "their family story" as a visitor from time.
How about gardening, ever wonder how easy it is to push a hand plow in Florida soil. Experience gardening the old fashion way. Each year we grow an
organic garden and enjoys fresh fruits and vegetables all season.
How about becoming a History Detective?
Facts are always being sought about the lives of the many settlers and their families who lived here in years past. Internet, genealogy, library, and news
articles are always being researched. We collect interviews from descendants as well and this can be accomplished over the telephone.
Make new Friends sewing and fund raising for Reflections. From quilts to pioneer crafts, or search for antiques to fill our museums, give speeches to
groups spreading the historic preservation concept.
Which ever you choose you will learn new things and make new friends whether its telephone, internet research, or volunteering on-site.
Become a Preservationist Join Reflections as a volunteer today!
Residents and visitors often attend many of the functions on site as the area. In this way you can relay "their family story" as a visitor from time.
How about gardening, ever wonder how easy it is to push a hand plow in Florida soil. Experience gardening the old fashion way. Each year we grow an
organic garden and enjoys fresh fruits and vegetables all season.
How about becoming a History Detective?
Facts are always being sought about the lives of the many settlers and their families who lived here in years past. Internet, genealogy, library, and news
articles are always being researched. We collect interviews from descendants as well and this can be accomplished over the telephone.
Make new Friends sewing and fund raising for Reflections. From quilts to pioneer crafts, or search for antiques to fill our museums, give speeches to
groups spreading the historic preservation concept.
Which ever you choose you will learn new things and make new friends whether its telephone, internet research, or volunteering on-site.
Become a Preservationist Join Reflections as a volunteer today!
| "Reflection's Volunteers are ordinary people doing extraordinary things" - Fred Clark, local resident |
| Want to be extraordinary? Volunteer today! |
| Caleb and Lucas Baisley watch demonstrate sugarcane grinding |
| Robert Williams smokes the mullet for the "Party for the Pioneers" |
| Sarah Michaels & Angela Baisley show of their bonnets |
| Patsy Hicks and friends watch children search during "Coins in the |
Chris Yent and Harvey Hill
"Sons of Confederate Veterans"
& Jan Hill "Confederate Rose"
Archealogist Bill Burger
interviewed by Tom Benett,
Sarasota Hearld Tribune in
background
"Sons of Confederate Veterans"
& Jan Hill "Confederate Rose"
Archealogist Bill Burger
interviewed by Tom Benett,
Sarasota Hearld Tribune in
background
| Jeff Williams & Mallory Vorse demonstrate as pioneers |
| Sarah Michaels & Pastsy Hicks to local children Steven & Eric Dellinger, Caleb Baisley and Denver Hicks |
Reflections of Manatee, Inc. a non-profit
serving our community for 12 years is
providing volunteer opportunities to
students wishing to complete required
community service hours.
serving our community for 12 years is
providing volunteer opportunities to
students wishing to complete required
community service hours.
Opportunities available: general
maintenance, landscaping, painting,
gardening, pioneer party participation and
fund raising help.
maintenance, landscaping, painting,
gardening, pioneer party participation and
fund raising help.
Time Traveling
Educational Opportunities that allow
students to time travel are also offered.
Students participating as Living History
Exhibits dress in period clothing
representing a local citizen from
1840-1875. They attend rendezvous and
other historic events as re-enactors
teaching Florida history.
Educational Opportunities that allow
students to time travel are also offered.
Students participating as Living History
Exhibits dress in period clothing
representing a local citizen from
1840-1875. They attend rendezvous and
other historic events as re-enactors
teaching Florida history.
Alternative opportunities offer service hours that can be fulfilled from home, during down-time hours or after dark, via internet.
Students of Construction Technologies, Art Students interested in Interior Design, and students who wish to research topics for
our website at www.reflectionsofmanatee.com
These may include research in restoration of wood sash windows, locks, hinges, roofing material and applications, historic nails,
bottles, dishware and antiques. It may also include innovative construction techniques like Zone Air Units, solar shingles, or
interior design for the 1860 era and 1925 Craftsman homes.
Others may be interested in taking interviews of local descendants who lived in Bradenton and surrounding cities prior to 1960.
Students of Construction Technologies, Art Students interested in Interior Design, and students who wish to research topics for
our website at www.reflectionsofmanatee.com
These may include research in restoration of wood sash windows, locks, hinges, roofing material and applications, historic nails,
bottles, dishware and antiques. It may also include innovative construction techniques like Zone Air Units, solar shingles, or
interior design for the 1860 era and 1925 Craftsman homes.
Others may be interested in taking interviews of local descendants who lived in Bradenton and surrounding cities prior to 1960.
Student Service Hours Opportunities
| Service Hour Projects November - January |
12 hours - Descendant Interview
- Includes initial contact
- Interview
- Notes and typing
- Publishing hard copy and cd
14 hours - Research Local Historical
Individual: (suggestions for historical
individuals: John Francis Bartholf, Jeffery
Bolding, Julia Hunt Atzeroth, William
Bunce, Joseph Braden, Miguel Gerrero,
Judah P. Benjamin, Joab Griffin)
14 hours each
Individual: (suggestions for historical
individuals: John Francis Bartholf, Jeffery
Bolding, Julia Hunt Atzeroth, William
Bunce, Joseph Braden, Miguel Gerrero,
Judah P. Benjamin, Joab Griffin)
- Includes internet/library search
- Genealogy report
- Typing
- Publishing hard copy and cd
14 hours each
10 hours - Topic Research: (pick one)
- Green A/C systems
- Wooden sash window repair
- 19th century period clothing
- 19th century hand tools
- 19th century dishware
- Interior design for Craftsman
homes 1920-1930 - Interior design for 1860 era homes
- The lost settlement of Angola
| To sign up for a project contact: Trudy Williams reflectiosofmanatee@msn.com 941-746-2035 |
| For more information contact Reflections at: 1302 4th Ave E. Bradenton, Florida 34208 941-746-2035 |
40 hours - Living History Event
- December 14, 2009 Gamble Plantation
- January 9, 2010 Crowley Museum
- Construct period clothing
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