Grey Towers invites prospective volunteers to orientation session

MILFORD — Do you love history? Are you a “people person?” Do you enjoy gardening? The US Forest Service and the Grey Towers Heritage Association have some opportunities for volunteers at Grey Towers National Historic Site, 151 Grey Towers Drive, Milford.
An orientation session is planned for Saturday, May 13, from 9:30 a.m. to noon to introduce potential volunteers to a brief history of Grey Towers and the various volunteer opportunities, including tour guides, special events, gift shop, cemetery restoration, gardens, trails, and archival work in the museum.
Commitments can vary from a few hours a week to several days per week during the visitor season, which runs from Memorial Day through December. Special incentives, including a dinner at the Finger Bowl outdoor dining table, are offered to Grey Towers volunteers.
Anyone interested in learning more about volunteering at Grey Towers is encouraged to attend the orientation session. Pre-registration is required by calling 570-296-9630 or sending an email to greytowers@fs.fed.us.
Grey Towers, ancestral of home of conservationist and two-term Governor Gifford Pinchot, is located on Old Owego Turnpike (behind Apply Valley restaurant) in Milford. It is administered by the US Forest Service, the agency founded in 1905 by Pinchot and President Theodore Roosevelt as a museum and active conservation center. In addition to the guided house and garden tours, the Forest Service offers a number of public programs and special events and is a conference center for natural resource organizations.