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Claire Tryon was raised in Martinsburg, West Virginia. She graduated with a BA in History from Shepherd University. She has an interest in women’s history and the digital humanities. Claire is hoping to pursue a master’s degree in gender and women’s history in the fall of 2021, with the goal of eventually being a professor.
Claire is currently an AmeriCorps member serving with the Berkeley County Roundhouse Authority at the Martinsburg Roundhouse. There she is helping to inventory their artifacts, give educational tours, organize community events and broaden their digital resources. Claire is excited to serve in the preservation of a location that is deeply engrained in the history of the Martinsburg. |
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Old Hemlock Foundation
Bruceton Mills, Preston County 2019-2020 Service Term Jamie Billman is from Mars, PA. Jamie found herself in Morgantown in August of 2018 with little to no direction or idea of what she wanted to do. Thankfully, after some amazing professors and friends guided Jamie, she found herself in the Public History Masters Program at WVU. Jamie enjoys driving through the fog covered valleys on the drive out to her site in rural Bruceton Mills - excited at what the day has in store for her. Jamie very much found herself enthralled in George Bird Evans writing, and how poetically and eloquently he speaks of the forest, hunting and, of course, his beloved setters. Jamie hopes to gain hands-on experience through this AmeriCorps position on what it means to maintain a historic structure, museum building, and the property that comes along with it. As well as looking through archived material and seeing what more we can learn. Further, Jamie very much is looking forward to exploring the forests here and bringing her 5-year-old Beagle Mix along with her! She is looking forward to meeting all of the people who are involved with Old Hemlock and also working towards getting more people involved with the foundation. |
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Ksenia Bradner grew up in McLean, Virginia near Washington, D.C., and was adopted from St. Petersburg, Russia in 1993. She earned an Associate of Science magna cum laude, and holds a BA history degree from Goucher College. Ksenia's education was tailored to public history, which involves communicating history in an accessible way to the public. Her career goal is to work in the museum field in a position that pertains to public history, rather than archival work or preservation.
She has completed two excellent internships in the museum field - the Civil War Medical Museum in Frederick, Maryland and the National Park Service Museum Resource Center in Landover, Maryland. In 2018, Ksenia worked as a History Interpreter for George Washington’s Mount Vernon during the busy Student Highlights season where the estate greets over a half a million visitors of all ages and nationalities. |
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Marilyn Creager grew up in Green Bank, West Virginia. She graduated from Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, in December 2019 with a degree in English. She is hoping to attend a graduate program in library science with a concentration in archives and records management starting in the Fall of 2020.
Marilyn is currently the AmeriCorps member at the Pocahontas County Opera House in Marlinton, West Virginia. She hopes to help give back to the community that helped raise her and to enjoy the rich history of musical traditions from Appalachia and the world. She wants to help continue the mission of the Opera House to be a community resource as both a center for the arts and a center for the community. |
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McKenzie holds BA’s in history and classical archaeology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2017), and an MA in archaeology from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece (2019). Having spent most of her time focusing on the Greek and Roman world, transitioning into ‘modern’ history is a new challenge McKenzie is truly excited about! She thinks history has the ability to connect us to neighbors all around the globe, and gives us the opportunity to think about our place in the world as it relates to the broader context of human development. Serving at a place like the Jefferson County Historic Landmarks Commission provides McKenzie with the chance to see first-hand how physical spaces directly and indirectly impact or interaction with our surroundings, our predecessors, and the history that engulfs this region.
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Susan attended Hagerstown Community College where she worked on her associates degree, then transferred to Shepherd University where she obtained a degree in History with the concentration in Historic Preservation. In May 2019, Susan graduated from Southern New Hampshire with her MA in Public history.
Susan has volunteered at the Berkeley County Historical Society since 2014 and interned there in 2015. Since then, she has continued to volunteer and completed research projects that include genealogy and historic properties. |
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