As an MHS volunteer, you can match your skills and interests to our needs while making new friends and helping us complete our goals. Please consider these ways to assist us:

Antiques Fair
Fourth Saturday in August
Locally known as Madison's best antiques show, this event is our major fund-raiser. Here are some ways you might be helpful:

• We need a dozen volunteers to mark out the vendor spaces and set up the MHS tents on Friday afternoon before the Fair. Adults and teens are welcome. (2:00 to 6:00 p.m.) Please call us to offer an hour or more of your time.
• We need a team of volunteers to help park our vendors on Saturday morning (6:00 to 9:00 a.m.)
• We need volunteers to take tickets from patrons throughout the day on Saturday (shifts from 8:45 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.)
• We need a clean-up and take-down crew on Saturday afternoon. Adults and teens are welcome. (4:30 to 6:00 p.m.)

Buildings and Grounds
Time commitment varies.
Help with overseeing upkeep and improvements of our buildings. This could involve meeting with contractors, getting quotes, and overseeing workers.

Children's Education
May through early June. Weekday mornings (9:00 to 11:30 a.m.)
Join our elementary-education team to give curriculum-linked programs at the Allis-Bushnell House or on the green.

Historic Building Plaque Program
Time commitment varies.
The building plaque program offers several volunteer opportunities:

• In-depth primary-source deed research and documentation
• Supplementary research at the Tax Assessor's Office (copying tax maps and collecting deed references from tax cards), the Charlotte L. Evarts Memorial Archives and Library, and the Allis-Bushnell House (copying related information on subject buildings)
• Compilation of research and supplementary information to create duplicate books for building owner and MHS archives.

Hospitality
Time commitment varies.
Help with refreshments for such events and programs as the Annual Meeting, the Summer Exhibition Members' Reception, and the Holiday Party. Sign up as often as you like.

Library
Time commitment is flexible.
The MHS research library includes books relating to local, regional, and state history as well as local genealogies; it also contains local history manuscripts and files on Madison historic homes and families. We need a volunteer to oversee the library and add to the collection.

Membership
Time commitment varies.
Help maintain and encourage membership at each MHS event or program; assist with membership mailings.

Preservation
Time commitment varies.
Work on local preservation issues with group of like-minded volunteers.

Adult Education
Various times throughout the year. Participate as often as you like.
Help us create interesting and informative programs for our membership and the public. Tasks include securing speakers/presenters/performers; arranging for meeting space; assisting with publicity; and coordinating the set-up team.

Publicity
Time commitment varies. Publicity volunteers may write press releases, create flyers, ads, and postcards, maintain contact with a distribution list of local media, and distribute publicity materials as needed.