MUSEUM INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
2012
The Weber County Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum building is moving, giving us an opportunity to make-over the whole museum. We will be creating new exhibits, enhancing existing exhibits, and developing educational programs and tours to better tell the stories of Weber County’s history. We could use the assistance of Interns in a number of areas.
Research and writing exhibit text on any of the following topics:
* The Miles Goodyear Story - trapper/trader/explorer phase of local history.
* Relations between Native Americans and the early Mormon settlers.
* The Utah War of 1857 - how the approach of Johnston’s Army impacted Weber County residents, including those who went to Echo to meet the army, families who went south and camped out in Provo, and the few who stayed ready to torch everything.
* Early Medical practices - midwives, herbal remedies, drug stores and medicines, doctors, early hospitals, epidemics.
* Water in the Desert - the story of irrigation - 10 Ditches, Mill Creek, canals, Ogden Valley’s artesian wells, early dam, and the pipeline down Ogden Canyon.
* Education in Weber County - early schools, teachers, the Weber Academy.
* Stories focusing on pioneer women and their contributions, including those with absent husbands due to missions and polygamy.
* Stories about how Ogden changed from a small, rural, Mormon community to a Junction City after the Railroad came.
* Businesses, hotels, tourist industry, etc.
* Cultural diversity and conflict.
* Law & order, including brothels, gambling, etc.
* Ogden Society, including entertainment and fashions of the time.
Creating video presentations:
* A introductory video on the early history of Weber County
* Our Museum Story - History of the Weber Stake Relief Society/Weber County DUP Museum building and documenting the move of the building.
* Videos on any of the above research topics
An oral history project on Memories of our Museum
Help with cataloging artifacts and inventory as we move them back into the building
***We are open to other ideas relating to pioneer life or Weber County history prior to 1900.
Contact: Karen Stark, Artifacts Curator, Weber County Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum
Kstarkrm@aol.com, 801-479-1427, 801-645-7671
WSU Coordinator: Dr. Kathryn MacKay SS244 (801) 626-6782 kmackay@weber.edu
INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY
Spring 2012
Come work with volume editors of the Joseph Smith Papers Project for academic credit. Duties will include research related to document analysis (textual and documentary intention, production, transmission, and reception) and to contextual annotation of documents (identifications and explanations). Research will involve work in primary and secondary sources for early nineteenth-century America and early Mormonism. Work will include general assistance to volume editors. Interns need to be able and willing to provide 8 hours of work a week on the project, mostly onsite at the Church History Library in Salt Lake City.
CONTACT: Matthew Godfrey
matthew.godfrey@ldschurch.org
801 240-4247
Internship opportunities
Coordinator: Dr. Kathryn MacKay
Social Science 244 Phone: 801 626-6782 kmackay@weber.edu
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Social Science 138 Phone: 801 626-7463 llarkin@weber.edu
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