Mount Vernon, Alexandria, VA

Amanda Bowman, undergraduate history major, earned a competitive internship for the Summer of 2006 at George Washington’s Mount Vernon, where she worked as a costumed interpreter at the Pioneer Farm site and the Hands-On History tent and learned to use eighteenth-century tools and techniques in the treading barn and fields. Amanda also researched and wrote a report on the slave garden that formed part of Washington’s original plantation.

In the summer of 2005, Samantha Dorsey also earned a competitive internship at Mount Vernon, where she worked as a costumed interpreter.