Plains Talk Volume 43 Spring/Summer 2012(pdf - the State ...

Photograph by Mark Sundlov Photograph by Jeff Blanchard Photograph by Bonnie T. Johnson
SHSND Interns
Intern Haley Gard (above) shushes us next
to the Top Secret sign on Oscar-Zero’s computer,
which held targeting information. Crew
members could send that information to the
missiles when the site was in operation. Haley
is recording oral histories of missileers and
others at the Ronald Reagan Minuteman Missile
State Historic Site. She is a student in the
Cooperstown (New York) Graduate Program
for Museum Studies.
Plains Talk • sPring/summer 2012
S o c i e t y Ne w S
Lindsey Schott (left) is interning this summer in the State Archives,
identifying primary source materials that students can use for National
History Day in North Dakota projects. She is a student at the University
of Mary. Maren McKee (right), a graduate student at Eastern Illinois
University in historical administration, will be working for six months in
museum collections. Dymon Mills (not pictured) begun interning with
the North Dakota History Project in July.
Pembina State Museum intern Heather Hall (NDSU) (center, left) is
spending the majority of her summer internship working on comprehensive
interpretive plans for both the Pembina State Museum
and Gingras Trading Post State Historic Site.
These five interns (above) were a real asset to the SHSND, working
in the gallery with schoolchildren during May and early June,
our busiest time. Standing, left to right, is Zac Melgaard, University
of Mary; and Rhys Harries, Jamestown College. Sitting, left
to right, is Kristin Ripplinger, University of Mary; Karsen Little
Soldier, Dickinson State; and Kelsey Solberg, Dickinson State.
Each intern developed programs to interpret the gallery, and each
found a particular area of expertise as well. Zac enjoyed working
with students in the Hall of Honors with the USS North Dakota
but liked any area of the museum; Rhys liked talking about the
railroads and the bison; Kristin, the cowgirl, enjoyed discussions
about ranching and branding near the chuckwagon; Karsen took
the kids into the tipi, but was comfortable interpreting anywhere
in the museum; and Kelsey focused on the Corridor of Time.
Photograph by Beth Campbell
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