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The Aspen Historical Society embraces the support and effort of our Volunteers. Below is a small list of jobs that are the responsibility of the Volunteers. If you would like to join our Volunteer Program, please contact us and give us some idea of the area of volunteer work you are most interested in and of any special skills you have that you think would be useful to us. |
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The Volunteer Program |
- Wheeler/Stallard Museum Docents
- Walking Tour Guides
- Ghost Town Guides
- Slide Show Presenters
- Archives & Collections Research
- Educational Kids Programming
- Special Events
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Aspen Historical Society Volunteers—July, 2000 at the Holden/Marolt Mining & Ranching Museum site. © Ann Hodges photo |
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LARRY FREDRICK
Volunteer Official Historian
Larry Fredrick is the Aspen Historical Society’s Star Volunteer and official Historian and provides history training for Historical Society volunteers and interns as well as conducting tours of the Holden Marolt Mining and Ranching Museum, the Hotel Jerome, the Smuggler Mine and other historically-significant sites for elementary school children. He is a former Aspen Historical Society board member and established historic walking tour programs for the Society in 1985. During his tenure with the Society, Larry has created various slide show presentations for visitor and local groups, several of which have since been converted to digital format at aspenhistory.org. |
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He helped establish the Winter Lecture Series in 1994. Larry provides research help for authors, printed media and graduate students. On occasion, Larry performs as David M. Hyman along side Dick Osur as Jerome B. Wheeler, in the ‘Antagonist of Aspen’; a theatrical historic debate. He is a member in good standing of the ‘Dead Prospector’s Society’ and the Order of the Silver Nugget. He has provided voice over parts in various video programming including HGTV, A&E Television, Fine Living Channel, Denver Channels NBC, PBS and Aspen television and radio programming. He is a member of Spellbinders, a national storytelling organization based in Woody Creek, creating and telling Aspen history stories to young people in the Aspen Elementary Schools. He is a former member and Chair of the Wheeler Opera House Board of Directors. Awards include the 2007 Pitkin County Board of Commissioners Exemplary Volunteer Award, the 1994 City of Aspen Historical Preservation Commission’s Elisabeth Paepcke Award, and Aspen Philanthropist Magazine’s recognition of volunteer activities for community benefit 2006. |
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Polly Ross |
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Polly has been a West End Walking Tour Guide for the Aspen Historical Society for several summers, having started in 1998. She also occasionally leads the Downtown Tour and was a House Docent in the Wheeler/Stallard Museum during the winter of 1997-8. She really enjoys sharing Aspen's colorful history with visitors and locals.
An Aspen resident since 1977, Polly was raised in Illinois and was a Theatre Arts Major at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts.
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Her passions include skiing and flying (airplanes and hang gliders). She works at the historic Wheeler Opera House and flies for LightHawk, the Environmental Airforce.
"I joined a group of 20 or so one morning for one of the excellent walking tours conducted three times a week by the historical society. It is the best ten dollars you can spend in Aspen (especially considering that elsewhere in Aspen ten dollars would get you little more than coffee and a bagel)."
We convened at the Society's headquarters, the Wheeler/Stallard Museum, a stately brick manse on West Bleeker Street. "Wheeler built the house for his wife, but in fact she was happily settled near Denver and never even came to see it," Susan Dial, our volunteer guide, told us with a big happy smile such a story deserves.
Quoted from an article by Bill Bryson in National Geographic Traveler, 1999
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