William Mccoy History Internship

This week I have submitted the rough draft for the captions of my second exhibit, and so have completed the bulk of writing.  I am now looking forward to curating and designing the exhibits. I thought of some great ideas about how to do this and drew up some sketches of the movie theater exhibit. There are some great objects as well, such as old film reels, a speaker that was used in the local drive-in theater, movie posters and more. To go along with some of the objects I wrote a small one sentence explanation. I'm not sure how I will use them, but they may be necessary to provide context. Even a young adult such as myself may, for instance, have limited knowledge of drive ins, and so not know what the speaker was used for. Still to be done for both exhibits is to finalize the design and curation, get promotional art created, write introductions, etc. By the end of next week, at the very least I plan to have rough plans for the layout of the exhibits. This week was midterm week. F...

It has been another great week at the Heritage Foundation. As mentioned last week, I finished the captions for the movie theater exhibit and submitted them to my supervisor. As such, almost all of my effort this week has been focused on Winter Garden at Work. My progress in that exhibit is now just about on par with the theater exhibit.  When doing research I have used multiple tools at my disposal at the foundation. Firstly, there is the archive. There is quite a wealth of knowledge located in the archive in the form of objects, books, newspaper clippings, and photos, among other things. Everything is labeled and organized. For instance, there are filing cabinets with material about families. If one wanted to find information about someone with the name "McCoy" they would find the cabinet labeled "Family Files - L-Mc" and inside they would find file folders alphabetized according to family name. The McCoy folder would contain photos that are confirmed to be of some...

I have completed another productive week at the foundation. Of my two projects, the movie theater project is farther along than Winter Garden at Work. This week I focused a lot on the theater exhibit, and finished the first draft of the captions, which encompasses most of the text. I have already picked out what I believe are the best pictures for the exhibit, but of course that can change. At this point I must continue to curate objects and decide which will be put into the exhibit. There are some obvious inclusions, such as some chairs that were used in the old Winter Garden Theatre and movie posters. Admittedly, progress has been slower on Winter Garden at Work. The topic is more broad than the movie theater exhibit and so I have to look through more files to find information. In my research I have hit a couple of bumps. The first is that when I am using secondary sources the authors that wrote the histories (at least the ones that I have found so far in the archive) tend to neglect...

I made some good progress this week, despite it being a short one because of Memorial Day. I have continued both of my projects, and along with my supervisor made some updates to the foundation's social media. Firstly, I have almost finished writing captions for the movie theater exhibit and have decided which photos I would like to display with them. I will go through the relevant material once more, fact check what I have written, decide if I need to add more, and see if there are any photos that can better tell the story than those I have selected so far. A lot of research has been done previously on the theaters of Winter Garden and as a result I have had a much easier time finding information compared to my other project, Winter Garden at Work. The main focus of my research for Winter Garden at Work up until this point has been the Citrus industry, along with the first stores in the town and the railroads. There is plenty of information about the first citrus grow...