On June 1st, I launched a call for applications for one or two unpaid volunteers or interns, if you will, at the International Cryptozoology Museum, here as part of my home/office/musuem in Portland, Maine, for the summer of 2008. Here’s a reminder of that call:

Are you an extremely well-organized person? Are you a happily obsessive compulsive person that can deal with a seasoned but not cranky cryptozoologist? Do you have a passion for cryptozoology? Would you enjoy filing Bigfoot reports, sorting through 45 years’ worth of boxes of old news accounts, correspondence, and contributed photos? Actually helping in moving and emptying 350 boxes in storage? Cataloguing hundreds of artifacts, plaster casts, and more?

Do you live in southern Maine, eastern New Hampshire, northern Massachusetts, or are thinking about moving to Portland, Maine? How would you like to work with an experienced cryptozoologist interested in weeding through five decades of materials that need organizing?

How would you feel about creating a catalogue, online, of every artifact in this collection, from the Crookston Bigfoot and Barnum Mermaid to an Ogopogo cup and a Japanese Kappa fan, from material from the TNT area to Loch Ness water, while incorporating my memory into short entries on the history of each one of the hundreds of items here?

If you like thinking about sorting through thousands of books, organizing old ones and inserting new contributions, would you be interested in assisting with this museum?

If any of these highly intensive, not sensational tasks above describe something you would like to do, if your heart is racing with possibilities right now, I want to hear from you.

I am looking for a very small number of good volunteers or interns to begin assisting me this summer, to tackle the above projects, make more room for contributed objects and sort out files and boxes for more space needed. These are not positions to go on expeditions. This may be boring work at times, but this is the realistic part of cryptozoology that never gets written about. But we can work on these projects being educational experiences, as you will be fulfilling a “cryptozoologist-in-training” internship, if you will.

If you would like to begin an exchange with me on such a position, please email me at lcoleman@maine.rr.com

Write (snail mail) me at PO Box 360, Portland, ME 04112, or email me at LCOLEMAN@maine.rr.com with your contact info, your short bio, a jpeg (or photo in your snail mail) of yourself, and why you wish to help out. Let me know about your availability for an interview about this, this summer.

I have the patience to wait for the right, very organized person. I want you to enjoy being organized and that’s a major requirement of the position.

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