Hello everyone! I decided to stay a part of the Greenwood Cemetery team and continue working with Sarah to research and prepare a walking tour of the cemetery for the City of Orlando. For those who do not know, I am currently a junior at the University of Central Florida pursuing a BA in History with an Education minor. I am currently in ROTC and after I serve my contract, I plan to get my Masters and possibly my Ph.D. My dream goal in life is to become a teacher in secondary or college education. My research interests include Dutch economics and colonialism, naval shipbuilding, the Rashidun caliphate, the Islamic Golden Age, and Peter the Great and the Swedish Empire. I am especially fascinated by the development of the Dreadnought class battleship and how it wrought such great change in naval combat in the early twentieth century. What I hope to gain from this internship are better research skills, a greater appreciation of public history and its sources.
In case you have not seen my previous blog posts, I spent the Fall 2023 semester working with Sarah Boye, a UCF graduate student on her virtual walking tour of Greenwood Cemetery covering over thirty-two important figures buried there. We are also working on a proposal for an African American and military history walking tour as well. So far, I have researched and written six short essays alongside Sarah for this project, and I presented some of my work during last years history internship presentation. If you would like to check out the proof of concept tour, feel free to scan the QR code below!
This semester I will be researching and writing six more short essays on important figures buried in Greenwood Cemetery. These figures are the Grand Army of the Republic, Daisy Lynum, Dr. Hankins, J.A. Colyer, Crooms-Maxey, and Sam Robinson. While I do not have much knowledge on the five individuals, I can elaborate more on the GAR, as it will be my first essay written. The GAR is the veterans group formed by Union Soldiers after the American Civil War. I plan to discuss what the GAR was nationally, then talk about the local chapter that continues to take care of the GAR section of Greenwood Cemetery, as well as what the GAR meant to the men buried there.
As of right now, that is all the information I have, as I have spent this past week adjusting to a packed school schedule and a very important semester for Army ROTC. Next week I hope to be able to tell the whole story of the GAR and what it accomplishes for the Union veterans of the Civil War.
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