Employment options for history lovers: A panel discussion
Moderator:
Lee Wright, Founder, History Camp; The Pursuit of History; The History List
Panelists:
Erik Bauer (@hipster818), archivist, Peabody Institute Library
Alli Rico (@alli_rico), grad student, Harvard Museum Studies program; volunteer, Waterworks Museum
Mark Kenneth Gardner (@HistoryGardner)), archivist, Western Rhode Island Civic Historical Society; History Teacher, Chariho Regional High School
Thomas Ketchell, co-founder of education organization Hstry, with a BA in History
Matt Wilding, former Freedom Trail Foundation guide and currently content director, theguidetoboston.com
J. Lincoln Hallowell (@JLHallowell), park ranger, Gateway National Recreation Area
[Recorded on 8 March 2014.]
Lee Wright, MS, moved to New England in 2005, bought an old house (c 1780), and soon was serving on the board of his local historical society and historical commission. He started The History List in 2011 and History Camp in 2014.
In 2019 he founded The Pursuit of History, LLC, with Carrie Lund after seeing the success of History Camp and believing that there was a need for more History Camps and more innovative ways to engage people from all walks of life with history.
Lee has spoken at the New England Museum Association conference and the annual conference of the America Association for State and Local History. He has a Masters of Management from Northwestern University and lives in Marlborough, Massachusetts.
