As a result, the Warren County Historical Society has brought on four student interns to help push special projects forward this year.

Michelle Gray, the society’s managing director, said this year’s Summer Internship Program will focus on inventorying collections, completing Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission grant requirements, creating additional YouTube content “and many other projects that require special attention.

The interns’ work will focus both at the Society’s Fourth Ave. location but also the Wilder Museum in Irvine.

The four students are Mariette Williams, Damon Navaroli, Jillian Busby and Kylie Johnson.

Photo provided to the Times Observer Kylie Johnson is one of four interns that will be working this summer at the Warren County Historical Society.

“The Historical Society is pleased to welcome back Mariette Williams,” Gray said. “Mariette is returning to the internship program for her third year. She is a 2018 graduate of Eisenhower High School and recently completed her junior year at the University of Pittsburgh, where she is majoring in History with a concentration in Jewish Studies and minoring in Museum Studies.”

Williams will be team leader for a project that will inventory and digitize the society’s framed image collection as well as the military textile collection at the Wilder Museum.

“Assisting Mariette with the digitization and inventory projects, amongst many other undertakings, will be Damon Navaroli, new to the internship but ready, willing, and able to complete the tasks at hand,” Gray said.

He’s a 2020 graduate of Warren Area High School and just wrapped up his freshman year at Clarion as a history major.

Gray said Busby, a senior at Edinboro University studying anthropology, has a “strong interest in Women’s Studies and Museum Ethics.

Photo provided to the Times Observer Jillian Busby, a senior at Edinboro University, is part of the Warren County Historical Society’s 2021 Summer Internship Program.

“Jillian will be digitizing the Historical Society’s photo album collection funded through a Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission Historical and Archival Records Care grant as well as learning staff functions at the Wilder Museum of Warren County History in Irvine.”

Gray said the newest addition to the program is Kylie Johnson, a Warren Area High School student set to graduate next month.

“Kylie will be attending Edinboro University in the fall and will focus on creating video programs with a high level of historical integrity for the Warren County Historical Society and Wilder Museum,” Gray said. “Kylie has studied film production in Mr. McClellan’s class at WAHS and will be working with Historical Society Event Coordinator Casey Ferry to video programs featuring Textile Expert Dr. Ruth Barnes Shaw and Doll Expert Kate Reed, just to name a couple.”