What keeps you volunteering/working at the site?Ĭharles: Volunteering at the park gives me a lot of personal satisfaction. So, after getting out of the army, he encouraged me to apply to the seasonal position which then began my career. I actually grew up with one of my coworkers on the maintenance team. Now I am a permanent employee that specializes on repairing equipment with hydraulic cylinders and small engines. I began as a seasonal employee, working with the motor vehicles. As I’m working towards retirement, I started looking for ways to round out my life and volunteering at the park has been a good fit.īud: This May, I will have been working at these sites for seven years.
I began volunteering in 2019 and work it around my full-time job, generally volunteering around one day a week.
I would go with her to help in the gardens at Hampton and would see all the interesting pieces of equipment that maintenance used! Since that is my background, along with having my own mobile construction equipment repair business for 33 years, I decided that I wanted to help with mechanics at the park. What made you originally start volunteering/working at the site?Ĭharles: My wife, Sara, got me started! She started volunteering at Hampton National Historic Site in 2016 and then I decided I was interested in volunteering as well. We asked them to share their park stories. Volunteer Charles and maintenance team member Bud Conley work together each week to keep Hampton’s engines humming and its historic landscape beautiful and inviting to visitors, and maintain habitats for the animals that call Hampton’s meadow and trees home. With 62 acres of grounds, formal gardens, and a unique cultural landscape, Hampton’s maintenance team needs its mowers, loaders, and all matter of machinery in good order and running well.
Volunteer Charles and Maintenance Team member Bud
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