Intern blog posts and posts by students and volunteers doing work at Wistariahurst.
My first taste of archival interaction came during the finals of one of my classes my first semester at Connecticut College, and what drew me in was the direct access to the artifacts. Later, for an assignment in a class…
My name is Nicholas Anderson, and I am an American military historian from Long Beach, California. I earned by undergraduate degree from Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. I am currently enrolled in the History department at the University of…
Hello! My name is Alexandra (Alex) Santiago and I will be the archive intern at Wistariahurst Museum for the next five months (Spring 2021). I am currently in my last semester at Holyoke Community College (HCC), where I am pursuing…
I was first introduced to the world of archival materials while engaging with primary documents as part of my undergraduate program in history at University of California at Santa Cruz. Archives struck me particularly because they contained materials that were…
AN IN-DEPTH LOOK AT WHAT OUR INTERNS HAVE BEEN UP TO THIS SUMMER This summer our interns, Antonio and Tessa, have been at our side developing various projects with personal twists. They worked on Visitor Services and Interpretation at Wistariahurst.…
This spring the research archive at Wistariahurst welcomed Holyoke Community College and Amherst College history students as they did research for their combined history course entitled Immigrant City Students had the opportunity to immerse themselves in archival research. Using primary…
Hi there! This is Aradhita here. I am an international student from India at UMass Amherst and am a junior aspiring to graduate a semester early with an English major and a certificate in Professional Writing and Technical Communication. I…
Hi, my name is Natalia. I am 15 years old. I was given the opportunity to work as an intern at the Wistariahurst Museum in Holyoke, MA for 5 weeks. Throughout these 5 weeks I have learned so much. I…