Having attended various events with our focus being on education, we have a few school-aged volunteer docents who have earned high school credits towards graduation by attending and participating in these events. All docents are trained to answer the public’s questions and provide information regarding all aspects of the artifacts presented in the Museum or at a special event. Sometimes dressed in authentic period uniforms, they have also been trained to give firing demonstrations — if requested — on each of the Artillery pieces, with an accompanying narrative history lecture.
An invitation was received from Governor Grey Davis to attend the California Admissions Day Celebration 2000 on the state capitol grounds in Sacramento — which included giving a firing salute as the grand finale over the Sacramento River, with a full encampment and supporting Artillery of the period on display.
We were also invited to attend the 2002 Harvest Festival supporting the Center for Individual Development (C.I.D.), a recreational center for people with disabilities. A special invitation from the Boy Scouts of America California Inland Empire Council brought us to their 2003 Boy and Girl Scout Encampment and their 2004 Sheriff’s Stampede — where one of our featured displays was the Army Escort Wagon with period Saddler and Farrier equipment. In support of Veterans, we exhibited our recently restored WWII WC21 Weapons Carrier in the Salute to Veterans Parade and at the Flabob Air Field Veterans Show in Riverside, CA (2010).
