Help Wanted: Baltimore & Ohio Ellicott City Station Museum
Guild Members,
We have an opportunity to display our hand crafted period accurate recreations for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Ellicott City Station Museum, and to conduct live public demonstrations in their manufacture. This is a great opportunity to showcase the guild to our local community.
George Adams has volunteered to lead the effort. Please reach out to George to participate.
Please reach out to me through the form, or by reply to the emailed version of this post.
I am Assistant Manager, Outreach & Fundraising at the Baltimore & Ohio Ellicott City Station Museum.
In September 2017, the Baltimore & Ohio Ellicott City Station Museum began a new phase under the Howard County Recreation & Parks Living History Heritage Program. The museum is now FREE admission and currently opened Wednesday & Thursday 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM, Friday & Saturday 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM and Sunday Noon to 5:00 PM. Many items in the Museum are on loan from the B & O Railroad Museum in Baltimore. We are interested in recreating wooden boxes and crates for display throughout the site and are looking for volunteers to assist with this project. Do you feel your organization would have interest in helping us? Ideally, there could be one or more days where you would be at the Museum demonstrating/crafting the items so the public could “see you in action” and learn more about your group. We would be happy to discuss this further if you are interested. Thanking you in advance for your consideration, I am, Ed Lilley, Assistant Manager
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I would love to help, but I will be upfront I have ZERO experience with this and would be more of help. I don’t do this full time so it would be part time. If you feel I can be of any assistance I would love to help and hopefully LEARN A LOT.
Manan Shah
I stopped in at the museum, and after walking the displays i was able to say hello to Ed. He explained that many of their props are on loan from the baltimore museum and that he is interested in boxes, barrels, or furnituepre donations as well. There may be a long relationship starting with these boxes. I wonder if we could put a general call for old barrels in the guild.?
I would also add if anyone would have experience coopering or the learning of coopering, maybe we could make new barrels.
Count me in. I am new to the guild – had some spoons at the last meeting to show and tell…
How can I help? I’m handy but not a high end wood worker.
1. I have a small forge and anvil at home and could smith some nails or possibly some basic hinges (never made a hinge before). Are forged nails older than period… ?
2. I dabble with leather working.
Thanks Gregory. From what I know right now, the boxes are not not high end, but more of packing or shipping boxes that they have around to simulate a items to loaded on the trains. I think the fun thing will be the detressing and antiquing of the boxes to make them look the period. I think the forged nails and hinges will work out nicely. Looking forward to talking with you at the meeting on Saturday. George