I finished my internship a week earlier than I anticipated. This past week was my last week at the museum and it was an emotional, yet rewarding experience. Looking back on what I learned throughout my internship, I can confidently say that working in archives and collections is what I want to do for the rest of my life. I continued working on a gift that was recently given with photos, the rifle, two bibles, documents and postcards like the one pictured above.
I thought it was extremely interesting that there was a home-like building behind the Roanoke County Courthouse that is now West Hall for Roanoke College. My curiosity got the best of me and I started questioning a lot. Unfortunately, they had to be put on hold because my time ran out. I was lucky enough to be able to have such a fruitful internship experience and a great internship advisee/boss, Ashley W.