I didn’t come to seminary looking for a career. I spent most of my early twenties in a “career.” Starting out as a graphic designer, events planner, and marketing coordinator for a large southeastern material handling corporation, I went on to work for the third largest life insurance company in the U.S. followed by a […]
Month: December 2013
A Happy Ending: Last days at Burke
For the last couple of months at the end of every week, I greet the guard, shove my belongings in a locker and head to the archives. Although there are some days that I am exhausted, I enjoy coming to work at the Burke Archives. The fact that every day at the Burke is interesting […]
All Aboard: A Piece of Maritime History in the Archives
One of my favorite experiences while interning at Burke has been to inventory the MRL unprocessed records. I was working on records pertaining to China when I came across a very interesting letter, written by woman named Gertrude. Perhaps it was a result of daydreaming about the Titanic or that I had recently seen a […]