So this is going to be my last blog post, as it's the end of my 10th week here at Homestead National Monument. Next week I'll be driving to Colorado for a three-day workshop with the other LHIP interns from across the country. I will...
So Homestead's big event of the year is the solar eclipse that's happening on August 21st. We're almost exactly in the middle of the line of totality, so we will have two minutes and 34 seconds of darkness. We're expecting thousands of people to show...
Every year, the museum needs to do an inventory of a portion of the items in the collection, to make sure that everything is where it is supposed to be, and that items that are on display are not damaged. It took three of us...
Back in June, several park staff went to Alaska to pick up a 1945 Allis-Chalmers Model C tractor, faded orange and rusted from sitting outside for several decades. The tractor belonged to Ken Deardorff, the last homesteader to file a claim in 1974, proving up on...
So, my cornhusk doll-making skills that were featured in the newspaper last week are going to make it onto local TV. A local news station will be airing a documentary on Homestead National Monument of America sometime next week, and they wanted examples of different...
[caption id="attachment_11174" align="alignnone" width="800"] My picture in the newspaper[/caption] I spent more time with kids this week than I have in a long time. I worked on Sunday to help out with the second day of Homestead Days, and chose to be in charge...
So the summer is tornado season, and this is the first time I'll be in the Midwest for it. I've experienced tornado watches and warnings growing up in Georgia, and have even seen the damage from a couple nearby tornadoes over the years, so I...
I started and finished off this week spending the afternoon in the Freeman Schoolhouse, keeping an eye out for visitors (humans and spiders). It was a nice break from trying to make sense of the thousands of photos that have been uploaded to the "Place...
There probably weren't actually that many spiders this week. I just had my first encounters with Nebraska spiders. It all started last week, when I had some time between training sessions and helped the museum technician clean the one-room schoolhouse. I was wiping down a...
So I've finally graduated from college, packed up my apartment, and made it to Nebraska! When I got out of my car and stepped into the park for the first time, I was hit by a huge gust of wind, realized I had no cell...
Hi, my name is Olivia Caro, and I'm graduating from Grinnell College on Monday! I've been studying studio art these past four years and just turned in my very last project today, so I'm really starting to get excited to spend my summer at Homestead...