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| Written by Barry Rauhauser, Stauffer Curator and Director of History on the Web |
| Sunday, 16 November 2008 16:37 |
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Faith McCarrick is a senior history major at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. This semester she has been interning in both the archives and education departments at LancasterHistory.Org. In the archives department, she found herself creating box lists of manuscript groups that covered the history of the United Steel Workers Union in Lancaster and the writings of Jewish World War II veteran and journalist, Charles H. Kessler.
Within the education department, Faith was able to create a new tour for Wheatland that looked at the lives and daily activities of the many servants that worked in its halls. She researched President Buchanan’s letters in order to find out more about these little known characters in his life. She has thoroughly enjoyed her time at LancasterHistory.org and hopes to continue her education this coming fall at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, studying for a Masters in Museum Education.
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Amy Noll is a New Hampshire native who graduated with her B.A. in History and Management from Gettysburg College in 2007. She received her M.L.S. with a specialization in Archives, Records, and Information Management from the University of Maryland in 2009, and recently moved into the Lancaster area. She has past experience working at the National Archives and is also a Civil War Reenactor. In the Archives, Amy is working on the Lancaster Recreation Commission Records manuscript group. She has found many interesting records about past recreational programming for senior citizens as well as records detailing the creation and acquisition of some of Lancaster’s most well known public parks.

My name is Rebecca Macy and I am a rising sophomore at The George Washington University in Washington, DC. I am an American Studies major with a concentration in Cultural Politics. I have a great interest in civil rights, immigration, and the American Presidency. With a love of history, I am so excited to be working in my hometown this summer with LancasterHistory.org, Lancaster County's Historical Society & President James Buchanan's Wheatland!

At the time of her internship Katelynn Stauffer will be a rising sophomore at Gettysburg College, where she will be majoring in History and Political Science with minors in Education and Civil War Era Studies. While interning at Wheatland she will be working on the creation of a new living history tour that will examine the war years at Wheatland. She will be organizing volunteers and setting up a test run of the program for the public.

Alex Trimble is a senior at Elizabethtown Area High School. His primary focus of study has been in history and social sciences. During his internship at the James Buchanan Wheatland mansion he will be conducting research on James Buchanan's diplomatic mission to Russia.
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