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Paulette Tcherkassky Brewing Up
Cowboy Coffee
Poppy Reserve volunteers John and Connie
Scott, Marti Lindsey and Laurie Mohning
ventured across the valley to assist with Volunteer Jeannine Byer
decorating with fresh greenery. A big thank
you for your help with making Holidays on the Back when Jeannine first became a volunteer
Homestead a treasured community activity! in 2002, there were a total of .138 volunteers
at ttie museum. The museum was able to staff
not only staff Kachina Hall, California Hall, the
Featuring Volunteer Jeannine Byer
Southwest Room, and the Great Basin Room
BY MUSEUM CURATOR, PEGGY RONNING
with volunteers, but also the touch table in
Joshua Cottage. In comparison, in 2018 the
Jeannine Byer began volunteering at Antelope museum only had 14 volunteers, and we were
Valley Indian Museum in 2002. She has lucky to have someone to staff Kachina Hall.
dedicated a total of 967 hours to the museum. While Jeannine rotated through all the rooms,
The museum is very lucky that the Antelope she ended up spending the most time at the
Valley Press printed an article about volunteer touch table partly because she discovered she
opportunities at the museum at the same time enjoyed interacting with the kids and partly
that Jeannine was looking for a museum where because she was the only volunteer who didn't
she could volunteer to fulfill a class mind cleaning up the touch table at the end of
requirement at Cal State Northridge. Jeannine the shift!
went on to complete her BA in History at Cal
State Northridge. She started teaching in 2004 Jeannine decided to become a tour docent in
and received her teaching credential in 2006. 2014 because teaching children who want to
learn brings her joy. It wasn't hard for her to
Like many volunteers, Jeanine began as a learn how to give school tours because she was
weekend volunteer. Veteran volunteers already a teacher. The tour content was
Margaret Borchers, Bethel Gordon, and Dana already developed, and she just needed to
Grabb provided her training. Jeannine never learn it. However, after she mastered the
felt intimidated or nervous because there is a basic school tour, she began customizing the
reference notebook in each room to help tour based on her interactions with the kids.
volunteers answer visitor questions.
