Last week I began an internship with the OsborneFletcher family law firm in Lexington, KY. The firm specializes in local family law, representing clients with nuptial, custodial and child care related conflicts. The firm has agreed to take me in for a month, throughout July I will likely be versed in the firm’s filing systems, […]
Internships Blog
One Down, Five to Go
The first project for my internship is down! I have finally submitted a two page long paper detailing various grants, organizations, and business the RVPF can hit up for money. It only resulted in frustration and a messy desk for me. This is not the work I was expecting to do during my internship but […]
Project Time
May Term is now over and I can begin working on the projects the Roanoke Valley Preservation Foundation wants done. There are six in total and range from quick and easy to time consuming. The first two deal with “interpretive markers.” I honestly thought interpretive markers were historical markers that provided people with information to […]
Events, Events, Events
This past week has been quite busy in terms of events. I’ve attended two events already and will be doing another one on Sunday. It can be safely said that participation in various events is a major part of working for the Roanoke Valley Preservation Foundation. The first event was on Thursday and dealt with […]
First Day on the Job
Today is the start of my internship at the Roanoke Valley Preservation Foundation. Because the organization does not have a building to itself, my internship is a little different than most. It consists of showing up on various events and working on small projects they assign me. The very first thing I did on my […]
Remembering D-Day
At the beginning of my internship I was very unsure on many aspects. I was unsure of how this would work with my schedule, how I would be able to learn new skills through a historical memorial, and how I would be able to engage in a new era of history I had not previously […]
Time to Steer Away…
I have had a great time interning at the VMT this semester! Reflecting back, I remember how hard it was to make it fit into my schedule, and there was a brief moment when I thought it might not work out. But boy am I glad it did! I finally had the chance to try […]
Wagons, wya?
Today we had a few visitors come into the museum and our mission was to show them the various wagons that their deceased grandfather had been keeping in the VMT on loan. This sounds simple enough, but the problem is that we did not have adequate records of these wagons nor did we know precisely […]
To Be or Not To Be…That is History Pt. V
Benvenuto, sadly this is the last blog post of this internship. Naturally, I have saved the best for last. The picture below is part of my exhibit, which centers on one particular sewing machine. This machine is not just any piece of machinery, for it came out of the Preston Place (a really really old […]
D-Day Preparation
The past two weeks have been slower as we are doing a lot more behind the scenes planning for the 75th of the D-Day invasion. I have been helping out my supervisor Maggie with education tours that are coming up this month. I was able to see behind the scenes of programming in different school […]