Days 1 & 2 (July 14 & 15, 2016) Once I completed my first week as a graduate assistant at Historic Sandusky, I just assumed that the rest of the year would be as routine as the first week. I expected to only transcribe, give tours, and do small projects here and there. I didn’t realize the world of opportunities and doors Sandusky would open for me until recently. In late June, our Director, Greg Starbuck, informed me of an opportunity to attend The C

During the summer of 2015, students from Lynchburg College participated in a five week archaeology field school. These students were, Carl Prater, James Robbins, Victoria Funk, Jackie Burke, and myself. The field school was led by Professor Lori Lee, an adjunct professor of museum studies at Lynchburg College. Throughout this field school, students were attempting to locate the Historic Sandusky Kitchen. In taking the Lynchburg College field school at Historic Sandusky, a lo

My name is Brittney Bowes and I am one of the two Graduate Assistants for Historic Sandusky. I began my work here in May 2013 and will continue on until my graduation in May 2014. At Sandusky we all have a variety of jobs and research projects on which we work. Those jobs could range from answering telephone calls to giving guests tours of the house and grounds to, in my case, helping to create the interpretative report which will be used to determine exactly how the house wi

I have always been intrigued by archaeology, and on May 20, 2013, I arrived at Historic Sandusky to begin my first field school along with four other graduate history students from Lynchburg College, one undergraduate student from Randolph College, and Lori A. Lee, Visiting Ainsworth Professor at Randolph College. The next six weeks challenged our minds and our bodies as we used the techniqu