SUMMER 2008 AT THE DAVENPORT HOUSE
JUNIOR INTERPRETER TRAINING - Junior Interpreter Summer Training for high school age students will begin on June 19. Teenagers are trained to give tours of the Davenport House Museum over an eight week program culminating in Junior Interpreter Day on Friday, August 8 when the newly trained interpreters "run the house.’ For information about Junior Interpreter Day contact Jamie Credle at info@davenporthousemuseum.org or call (912) 236-8097.
FOR VETERAN JUNIOR INTERPRETERS - Veteran JI's meet during the summer for a program of exercise and experience which includes walking all 22 existing squares and viewing most significant monuments in the Landmark Historic District.
ADULT DOCENT TRAINING - Docent training will be offered to adults in July. Over the four week program they will learn the museum’s interpretation as well as Savannah history and the basics of curatorship in a house museum. For information or to sign up contact Jamie Credle at info@davenporthousemusuem.org or phone (912) 236-8097.
COMING IN OCTOBER - Just wait until Fall! The museum’s award winning living history program will focus on the visit of "our Nation’s Guest", General Lafayette, to Savannah in 1825. The talk will be of pageantry, excitement and the realities of daily life! Keep an eye in this website for detail or contact us as above.
The Davenport House is a property of Historic Savannah Foundation. |