RANGELEY — The Rangeley Lakes Region Historical Society announces that three student interns have found full-time employment in their chosen fields, after serving in recent internships with the organization.

Gretchen Clark, a recent University of Maine-Augusta graduate, has been serving as an intern in the digital collections department of the Maine State Library in Augusta. Clark has spent the summer working on digitizing and processing the entire volumes of three regional newspapers from the late 19th and early 20th centuries: the Phillips Phonograph, Maine Woods and Rangeley Lakes. 

Connor Wagner, a recent graduate of the University of Maine at Farmington, also served as a docent at the society’s Outdoor Sporting Heritage Museum in Oquossoc. His internship was provided through UMF’s Partnership for Civic Advancement program. After a four-month internship at the museum this past summer, Wagner has been hired at the Portland Observatory.

Student intern Love Call has organized and professionally accessioned the society’s collection of artifacts at both OSHM and at their Rangeley History Museum downtown. In a unique partnership between the Rangeley Lakes Region Historical Society and the Ski Museum of Maine, Call has also been asked to assist the Kingfield museum with its accessioning program and its new gallery overhaul and exhibit renovations.

To learn more about upcoming college and high school intern opportunities with the Rangeley Lakes Region Historical Society, or to help support the program, call Bill Pierce at 207-864-3091.

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