“I enjoy volunteering,” Carolyn Dibler said.
Dibler said she enjoys volunteering as she volunteers at the Heartland of America Museum and gives tours of wind turbines in the Weatherford area.
“It is something I have enjoyed doing forever and we have two to three people who used to give tours. They are no longer here, so I inherited giving tours of these turbines. I started volunteering at the museum when I retired,” Dibler said. “I am the main one who gives the tours and have enjoyed every moment of it.”
Dibler said how she got interested in doing this was when they put turbines in near her parents’ house. Her Dad’s name is Herbert Brehm.
“When they were putting in the turbines, there were a couple being put in where my parents lived,” Dibler said. “My dad, who was in his 90s at the time, was very interested in what they were doing. I took him several driving several times a week to see them and I began to take pictures. I actually made an album of how they were built.”
Dibler takes people to look at the turbines and they ask questions after they see the turbine. After they looked at the turbines, Dibler said she took them down to City Hall and they get to look at the wing of the turbine.
Dibler has been volunteering at the museum since 2005 and she said every tour is different. “It is a learning experience for everyone,” Dibler
“It is a learning experience for everyone,” Dibler said. “You never get the same group of people and they all ask different types of questions.”
Dibler has three kids, Jason Dibler, Jeffery Dibler and Jenifer Samas. At the museum, Jim Lovell also took pictures and has a video they made. Dibler’s son, Jason actually does video and helped make a film of how the turbines work and operate.
“Several years later, we updated the video and we added a bunch of pictures from my album and my son actually put the video together,” Dibler said. “It is about a 15-minute video and shows how they are contracted and we take them out to the turbines and people can see and feel how big they actually are.”
Dibler said her son helping them with the wind turbine video in return helped her son with his video business.
“At the time, he had a small video business going,” Dibler said. “This helped him get recognition and he could ask questions as he was doing this for somebody else.”