Hannah Murray, Youth Volunteer at Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park

In this episode host, Dave Barak chats with Hannah Murray, a 6-year-old volunteer at Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park, who is joined by her mother Elizabeth. They discuss why Hannah loves volunteering at a national park and why others should consider volunteering at their closest national park.

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Dave: Welcome to my Park story presented by the National Park Service. People form connections with their favorite national parks and programs, and this parkcast is a place to come together and share those stories. I'm your host, Dave Barack, and today we're talking to a six-year-old volunteer for Fort Moultrie National Historical Park, Hannah Murray, joined by her mother, Elizabeth.

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Dave: Where, where do you work? Where do you volunteer, Hannah?

Hannah: Mostly at Fort Moultrie.

Dave: What would you say to other kids that want to volunteer at a National Park?

Hannah: I would say like, hey, there's a there's a National Park you can volunteer at, and it's actually really fun. You can talk to Rangers, you can get a National Park book, and there's a gift shop that you can buy stuff from.

Dave: That's a great, that's a great way to talk about the parks, that that is such a fun thing to say to other folks that want to volunteer. And I hope that people will listen to your advice and volunteer at national parks. So you I know that you do some weeding at national parks at Fort Moultrie, and what else do you do at Fort Moultrie besides the weeding?

Elizabeth: When there's big events, what do we do?

Hannah: When there's big events, I usually help them, but usually we're not there for all the events. So I just help them like put up the chairs because we're usually late for the events. But but at least I get to help the Rangers put up the chairs,

Dave: OK, and sometimes do you, do you talk to the people that come about volunteering?

Hannah: Yes.

Elizabeth: Actually, we actually even bring your friends, don't we?

Hannah: Yeah, we do. I bring my friends.

Dave: What? So you brought your friends? You are part of a group. What group are you part of?

Hannah: We're pack 743 are. I'm with the Boy Scouts. But we are. Our troop and pack went Coed in 2016, 2017, 17 what?

Dave: What does Coed mean, Hannah?

Hannah: Coed means like boys and girls are allowed and troop.

Dave: That's really cool. So you have been volunteering for a year. What is your favorite part about volunteering?

Hannah: You know, with my Ranger friends?

Dave: Cool. You said that you have Ranger friends and I know you have your friends with Ranger Summer. Who are your other Ranger friends?

Hannah: Ranger Andy. Because he's funny.

Dave: Ranger Andy is funny. OK, that's good.

Hannah: Haley and Ranger and Ranger Rebecca.

Elizabeth: Do you wanted to tell Ranger Dave how old you were when you first got when you've got your first Junior Ranger badge? You were.

Hannah: Ohh, yeah. You were so old. When I first got my Ranger badge, I was three.

Dave: What> Do you know what I was doing when I was 3? I was. I was napping.

Elizabeth: Ranger Andy swore her in when she was three years old.

Dave: So you got a Junior Ranger badge from Ranger Andy, and now you work with him. That's pretty cool. Yeah, I know that you have lots of Ranger friends at Fort Moultrie, but I hope that you think I'm your friend now.

Hannah: Yeah.

Dave: Yeah, yeah. That makes me happy. Yeah.

Elizabeth: Do you remember what's special about Fort Moultrie and our family? Do you want to tell him that you're great? Great.

Hannah: My grand, my great, great grandfather was stationed at Fo