For an overview of the work being undertaken by our summer interns, please refer to this earlier post.
View Episode One.
July 1 – July 3, 2015
7/1/15 – Out in the stone yard today.
7/1/15 – Photographing stones for an inventory of usable stones.
7/1/15 – Hidden keystone.
7/1/15 – Using our dictionary to look up the difference between a lintel and a jamb. Thanks, Ward!
7/2/15 – The day started off with a photoshoot with our wonderful internship site, the Menokin house, for the presentation.
7/2/15 – Today’s theme is the interns vs. nature: we battled rain, a frog, more rain, a beetle, and a bee. “There’s a bee in the bag! This is not a drill! Abort abort! Not pictured: Sarah and Chris running away while Bethany negotiated with the bee to remove itself from the bag. ”
7/2/15 – We did manage to find a clue among the crazy events that took place during interns vs nature. We discovered that these specific z blocks match some window stones we found in the yard. Nature: 100… Interns: 1. Score!
7/2/15 – Sarah dropped the wire and it got all tangled, but Chris and Bethany fixed it while Sarah pulled up some weeds in the stone yard and apologized profusely.
7/2/15 – More wire struggles.
7/2/15 – More wire struggles.
7/3/15 – Pic from our field trip to George Washington’s birthplace. “Just call me g dubs.”