Wanted: Cryptozoology Museum Volunteers
Posted by: Loren Coleman on July 12th, 2007
Today, July 12th, I am launching a call for applications for a few good volunteers at the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
Are you an extremely well-organized person? Do you have a passion for cryptozoology? Would you enjoy filing Bigfoot reports, sorting through 45 years’ worth of boxes of old news accounts, correspondence, and contributed photos?
Do you live in southern Maine, eastern New Hampshire, northern Massachusetts, or are thinking about moving here? How would you like to work shoulder to shoulder with an experienced cryptozoologist interested in weeding out four rooms full of materials that need organizing?
How would you feel about creating a catalogue, online, of every artifact in this collection, from the Crookston Bigfoot and Barnum Mermaid to an Ogopogo cup and a Japanese Kappa fan, from material from the TNT area to Loch Ness water, while incorporating my memory into short entries on the history of each one of the hundreds of items here?
How would you feel about sorting through thousands of books, organizing old ones and inserting new contributions? How about weeding out the duplicate reading copies to create an active lending library?
If any of these separate tasks above describe something you would like to do, if your heart is racing with possibilities right now, I want to hear from you.
I am looking for 2 or 3 good volunteers to begin assisting me in September or October 2007, to tackle the above projects, make more room for contributed objects and sort out files and boxes for more space needed. These are not positions to go on expeditions (at this time), although that might happen for some people, at the drop of a hat, depending on breaking events. But it is more than just a nonpaid clerical position. These are cryptozoologists-in-training internships, if you will.
If you would like to begin an exchange with me on such a position, please email me at LColeman {@} maine.rr.com
What do you receive? Hopefully, the experience will be challenging, entertaining and enlightening. Certainly, you will gain hours of mentoring on the subject of cryptozoology and Forteana, the chance to rediscover material gathered over the last nearly 50 years that needs to be organized, and an ability to copy from my files and build your library from some of my duplicate books.
Also, having taught at the university level for two decades and supervised many interns, if you are a student, I could work with you and your school’s advisor to assist you to receive independent study credit for spending four months or nine months or a year volunteering here.
Write (snail mail) me at PO Box 360, Portland, ME 04112, or email me at LColeman {at} maine.rr.com with your contact info, your short bio, a jpeg (or photo in your snail mail) of yourself, your permission for a criminal check (books and files do walk off with a minority of volunteers), and why you wish to help out. Let me know about your availability for an interview about this, this summer or in the fall.
I have the patience to wait for the right, very organized people.
BTW, the museum is closed for the summer due to renovations, moves, and scheduled visits.
No comments here; please write me directly.
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