Peter:
I thought some of your public history students might be interested in this opportunity.
We were contacted to see if we knew anyone able to volunteer as a docent for the Hastings-on-Hudson Historical Society’s two-day house tour (May 22-23 from 12 noon to 5pm). The house in question is Margaret and William Sanger’s house which they lived in before she began her birth control crusade. Information about the tour is below:
http://hastingshistorical.org/housetour.shtml
If you are interested in participating please let me know as soon as possible. The docent does not need to be there for the entire duration of the tours, and it is an external tour of the house only.
We can provide some historical background for the tour to anyone who is interested in participating. It has at least one good story–it was designed and built by Bill Sanger, and the first night that the family stayed in the house it went on fire. Sanger’s autobiographies cover the incident, which you can read about here:
http://books.google.com/books?id=iy0oWya9H_kC&pg=PA61&dq=margaret+sanger+hastings-on-hudson&cd=3#v=onepage&q&f=false
Cathy Moran Hajo, Ph.D.
Associate Editor/Assistant Director
The Margaret Sanger Papers Project
Department of History, New York University
53 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012
(212) 998-8666
(212) 995-4017 (fax)
cathy.hajo@nyu.edu
Visit our website at: http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger
Peter J. Wosh
Director, Archives/Public History Program
History Department
New York University
53 Washington Square South
New York NY 10012
Phone: (212) 998-8601
Fax: (212) 995-4017
http://history.fas.nyu.edu/object/history.gradprog.archivespublichistory.html