Laurel highlands Historical Village Inc N.P. - Various Volunteer Needs
To provide a forum to inspire, motivate and teach young people about their rich cultural and ethnic inheritance through storytelling, handicrafts and skills demonstrations and seminars, period architecture, garments, tools and lifestyles. We want to provide a powerful and vivid experience that is both entertaining and educational, and engenders in our children and youth interest in the many and varied ethnicities which shaped our nation.
As an historical venue, the Laurel Highlands Historical Village seeks to create an ethnic-centered heritage village reflecting life in earlier times and is accessible to the public. We hope to showcase the contributions, skills and talent of many ethnic groups who shaped the progress of this region.
The Village will be created at Hinkston Reservoir, and will be complete with, gardens ,trails, amphitheater as well as domestic and work-related features common to the Laurel Highlands region pre-industrial revolution. LHHV’s focus will be on areas such as conservation, textiles, agronomy, wildlife, music, food, arts and crafts, with emphasis on teaching the skill in the context of various programs. The Laurel Highlands Historical Village, a nonprofit organization, was founded in 2003 to promote appreciation and understanding of the rich cultural and ethnic diversity of the South Western Pennsylvania Highlands region. This area has served as home to many peoples who, in the 19th century, immigrated from their homelands to join the Native Americans living here for generations. The settlers worked in coal mines, steel mills, on railroads, as laborers and farmers. As our nation forged itself into a nation of Liberty, freed African peoples and immigrants from every continent continued to supplement our society. The result is an ever-changing array of culture unlike any in the world. It is Laurel Highlands Historical Village’s intent that the our Mission offered to the community will result in building a more diversified, connected and stronger community for future generations.
The Village will be focused on children and youth specifically. We will reach out to the community to find the resources necessary to enrich young people about their heritage. We will contact instructors, discussion leaders, educators, artists, musicians and leaders (to name a few) to support us in making the Village a success. LHHV envisions an Enrichment Day Camp where urban children and youth can come to the country to experience other ways of life.
When the Village is completed, it will include space for artisan and merchant shops, ethnic food booths, facilities housing crafts, artwork seminars and demonstrations. Not only will youth benefit by visiting Laurel Highlands Historical Village but adults can experience such natural features as an actual working farm with barns, ponds, cropland and domestic animals as well as forest wildlife.
In Addition to our Village, our goal is to provide to needy families in our communities, a help center where they will be given an array of goods and services.
We need persons to help build a hiking trail We need persons who are skilled in the fine arts as we want to host outdoor productions.
Work on biking tral. Work on making fishing areas at dam.
please sign up and we will be in touch we have our next meeting Feb 12 at 6 pm call for details 241 6123
