Internship UPDATE

My internship with Preservation Piedmont has been the perfect compliment to my summer so far. It has allowed me to see the fields of preservation from a different perspective (NONPROFIT) with strong architectural historic roots. I have had the opportunity to be a major part of several projects that the group has going, and further I have even been exposed to several research topics that I have the opportunity to delve deeper into. Our most recent priority has been the St. John's Rosenwald School in Albemarle County. It is one of the many still standing schools, that through adaptive reuse efforts will be turned into a community center, or even a senior center. I spent my Saturday helping a group of 6 people interview those few alumnus of the St. John's school that are still living. They were holding a reunion and revival, which gave us a great opportunity to get them all together at one time. These interviews have actually generated a great deal of work for me as I now have been transcribing what information was recorded, and hopefully it will lead to a collective history or some kind of published booklet on the school. We are also going to put the information online. Over all the summer has been a blast. I've gotten used to the living patterns of my sister and her husband, as I have been staying with them, and I look forward to the end of the summer deadlines, and the thought that school is just around the corner!