b'VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES.Providing volunteer programs for the public creates an engaged base of dedicated heritage stewards throughout Florida.Southeast Region staff and volunteers during investigations of the Bowles-Strachan House property.Bowles-Strachanrecord 85 individual headstonesarchaeologists use to clean, sort, House Investigations in 51 10 x 10-meter survey blocks.and catalog finds. Volunteers In December 2018, SoutheastThe Catholic Diocese does a greathad the opportunity to work with Region staff partnered with thejob of maintaining the cemetery,artifacts from two projects run by Bowles-Strachan House to con- but since the cemetery was estab- FGCU, working under the supervi-duct an initial archaeologicallished in 1884 many markers havesion and instruction of research-investigation of their property. Thesuffered damage from numerousers.goal of the excavation programstorms or various repairs. Along was to illuminate the history ofwith the recording project, theThe Digital Lab at the East Cen-Carver Ranches, a community de- Diocese installed a new seawall totral Regional Center opened for veloped and marketed to African- further protect the site fromvolunteers to assist in printing, Americans in the 1940s. The publicstorm damage. prepping, and painting 3D-printed was invited to view excavations inartifacts for education and out-early December 2018. Volunteer Archaeology Labs reach projects. Artifacts from During summer 2018, SouthwestKingsley Plantation that align with Nombre de Dios CemeteryRegion staff partnered with Flor- the Project Archaeology: Investi-Recording Project ida Gulf Coast University (FGCU)gating a Tabby Slave Cabin cur-For five months, volunteers putfor a volunteer archaeology andriculum continue to be fabricated in 115 hours of work with Robbieforensic anthropology lab. Volun- for teaching kits, as well as new Boggs of the Northeast Region toteers learned about the methodsmodels from the 1715 plate fleet'