A Public History Intern’s Work Week 11

Hello and thank you for joining again. This has been a rather research-heavy week between may various class projects and work here at Banting House. Today I am also scheduled in a meeting to hopefully help with the problems I have been having with the website that I mentioned in one of my previous blogs.... Continue Reading →

A Public History Intern’s Work Week 9

Hello and thank you for joining again. Most of this week I have been working on the Banting House National Historic Site's website, specifically on the Diabetes Ink exhibit. You may have noticed it, but I changed the Diabetes Ink exhibit's main page on the website a little, formatting the categories for the exhibit. This... Continue Reading →

A Public History Intern’s Work Week 8

Hello and thank you for joining again. Following the event for World Diabetes Day came the cleanup effort. Always the most sombre moment, it took a while to dismantle and bring everything in. Following that eventful day, things have started to calm down at least a little once more. I have been helping to move... Continue Reading →

A Public History Intern’s Work Week 7

Hello and thank you for joining again. My apologies for the lack of a post last Friday, we were very busy throughout the week finishing up preparations for November 14 - World Diabetes Day. World Diabetes Day this year was spectacular! We had approximately 280 visitors who were treated to free open house tours, gluten... Continue Reading →

A Public History Intern’s Work Week 6

Hello and thank you for joining again. This has been a pretty busy week as we are focusing on the Diabetes Ink exhibit for the upcoming World Diabetes Day. Buckling down, I managed to finish all of the individual photo displays depicting the collection. At the same time, we have been discussing ideas for how... Continue Reading →

A Public History Intern’s Work Week 5

Hello and thank you for joining again. We are making good progress here for the coming exhibit for World Diabetes Day. I have finally finished documenting all of the submitted tattoos and we have mostly decided on a layout which we are thinking looks good. Because of this, as of Wednesday I have begun designing... Continue Reading →

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