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 […]
Internships Blog
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 […]
Oh the Places You’ll Go with the VMT…
The second half of my internship this semester has gotten a lot more interesting. The redundant and meticulous process of cataloguing items is still a fairly regular job of mine, but my internship coordinator has been trying to give me new experiences so that I leave the Virginia Museum of Transportation with more than one […]
To Be or Not To Be…That is History Pt. IV
Benvenuto back guys. As this blog post wines down, I have a few more things to tell you all. If you recall from last week, Alex and I were in the middle of re-doing the Civil War gallery. After while gathering our supplies, we got to work. This picture here is what the gallery looks […]
Scout Day
This weekend I attended Scout Days at the memorial which is one of the events I have been working on for about two months. I have been planning activities for the boy scouts and girl scouts as well as planning my very own presentation. I did not know what to expect but I had a […]