The past two weeks I have been looking through the archive of the museum to help set up for a new exibit they are curating. I looked for artifacts on the old Tannery, local pharmacys, old castle, Salem bicentennial, and plaseant grove. I also helped out with a field trip that came to the museum. Doing all this research on salems historical bulidings is super interesting to me and is further developing my reserch skills.
I have also been doing some light research on women in the gilded age. The director of the museum is wanting to revamp one of the exihibits that shows what a room in the brown house, which is where the museum is located, would have looked like in that time period. In the gilded age at least two of the daughters in the house would have been off courting age. She asked me to look into what their dating lives would have been like. She also asked me to look thought some of the local highschool’s and Roanoke College’s year books from the 60s to get a sence of their style and to mark pages that desplayed that. I am going to put these pages in the lobby to show Salem in the 60s
