This summer, I interned at the North Royalton Historical Society’s Museum, the second year I have worked for them. While it is small – staffed by three part-time employees, a few undergraduate interns, and myself – the museum gives us the ability to easily see our contributions bear fruit. At the outset, I hoped to…
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Curation and Exhibit Design Internship at the Broadview Heights Historical Society
I spent my fall semester as a history intern at the Broadview Heights Historical Society under their president Candy Korn. My focus was to curate artifacts and write didactic material for those artifacts that would be displayed in the BHHS’s permanent home, a renovated historical building of the former Veterans Administration Hospital. Candy and I…
Shaker Historical Society: A Reflection
August 22, 2017, was my first day as a development intern at Shaker Historical Society (SHS). With my GPS navigator barking demands to “turn, turn, TURN!” I still missed the driveway to the museum. After finding the next turnaround, I finally made it to SHS and drove my car up its driveway. I opened the…
