The best part of working for a historic house is the personality. Not just the house itself, but the relationships people form with the...

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