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RANGELEY — Three student interns at the Rangeley Lakes Region Historical Society have found full-time employment, the organization announced in a news release.
“In the last three years the society’s programs and collections have expanded at an impressive rate and the organization is convinced that the six college interns they hosted, have all played key roles in that success,” the release said.
Gretchen Clark a recent University of Maine-Augusta graduate, has found a job at the Maine State Library after being an intern there this summer, on behalf of the Rangeley society. Clark spent the summer digitizing and processing the library’s volumes of the Phillips Phonograph, Maine Woods and Rangeley Lakes, going back to the 19th century.
The work is funded by a grant. The historical society said that some of the missing Maine Woods editions were provided by the Phillips Historical Society. All the newspapers will be online in 2018.
Connor Wagner, a recent University of Maine at Farmington graduate has been hired at the Portland Observatory Museum. He was a docent at the Rangeley society’s Outdoor Sporting Heritage Museum in Oquossoc. His internship was provided through the university’s Partnership for Civic Advancement program.
Love Call has been hired by the historical society after, as an intern, she organized and professionally accessioned the society’s large collection of artifacts at both OSHM and at the Rangeley History Museum.
“Love has brought a serious passion for history to her work here,” said Executive Director Bill Pierce. “She has turned into a true collections management and exhibit creation professional since arriving here. She had become such an asset that we were forced to figure out a way to hire her ourselves.”
In addition, in a partnership between the Rangeley Lakes Historical Society, Call has been asked to assist the Ski Museum of Maine, in Kingfield, with its accessioning program, as well helping overhaul the gallery and exhibit renovations.
Three other of the six interns the Rangeley Lakes Region Historical Society has hosted in the past three years are continuing their studies.
Jocelyn Stevens, of Mt Abram High School in Salem, just completed a fall high school internship at the Rangeley History Museum, to add to her college application efforts and fulfil a volunteer service requirement for graduation.
“Our museums in both Rangeley and Oquossoc have benefited greatly by all the hard work and dedication that our interns have brought to the table,” Pierce said. “It’s been such pleasure to work alongside them. Not only to mentor them, but to learn some things from them as well.
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For more information on college and high school intern opportunities with the Rangeley Lakes Region Historical Society or to help support the program, call Pierce at 207-864-3091
