Warwick teen volunteers at Massachusetts landmark

PLYMOUTH, MASS. - Anne D. Pennington, 14, of Warwick, spent two weeks as a Landmark Volunteer at Plimoth Plantation located in Plymouth, Mass. Pennington, daughter of Bill and Joyce Pennington, was a member of a team that lived on site from June 25 to July 8 and helped with landscaping, gardening and maintenance chores, costume restoration and work on the Mayflower II. They also had an opportunity to take part in activities at the Native American Village. Pennington is a member of the varsity ski racing team, the golf team and the junior varsity cross-country team at Warwick Valley High School. She has just completed her Silver Award for the Girl Scouts by helping to design and build a four-station fitness course in a local park. She also is a member of the FFA, the Women’s Select Chorus and has planned and taught enrichment classes in gardening to elementary school students. She loves to write and has been published in “Our Times,” a New York Times-sponsored publication. She volunteers regularly at Bobolink Dairy Farm in Vernon and participates in a variety of volunteer activities through the Girl Scouts. Landmark Volunteers, based in Sheffield, Mass., is a non-profit summer service organization offering high school students and adults the opportunity to perform community service at nationally recognized historical, cultural and environmental or social service institutions located throughout the country. Now in its fifteenth year, Landmark Volunteers provides each host organization with an entire team of hard-working young people capable of accomplishing a great deal of much-needed manual labor. The Plimoth Plantation, located 45 miles south of Boston, is a nonprofit living history museum that is a faithful re-creation of a 1627 Pilgrim village. The Plantation is staffed by “interpreters” who, dressed in authentic reproduction period costumes and speaking the vernacular of the character’s home region, interact with visitors, showing them the crafts, daily tasks and customs of life in the 1600’s. Further information about Landmark Volunteers may be obtained by visiting the Web site at www.volunteers.com or e-mailing Landmark@volunteers.com; by calling 413-229-0255; or by mail: Landmark Volunteers, PO Box 455, Sheffield, MA 01257.