Bidwell House Museum Offers High School Internships
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MONTEREY, Mass. — The Bidwell House Museum, a colonial historic house museum in Monterey, is offering high school students with an interest in history, particularly local Berkshire colonial history, the opportunity to become a Young History Scholar Intern this summer.
The Bidwell House Museum is a 1750s New England heritage site providing through its land, house and collection a personal encounter with frontier life in early America. The museum includes the fully furnished colonial homestead, several outbuildings and 192 acres of grounds with gardens, stone walls, foundations and hiking trails.
High school interns spend two weeks at the museum. In week one, the intern learns about colonial Berkshire history, the Bidwell family, the house, the property and the collection, and how docents give tours. In week two, each intern chooses a research topic and begins to give tours of the museum as a junior docent.
Recent summer interns have come from the following towns and school districts: Lanesborough, Lenox, New Marlborough, Monterey, Sandisfield, South Lee, Tyringham, Fort Mill, SC, Albany Academy, Convent of the Sacred Heart, NY, Dana Hall School, Waldorf High School, Houghton Academy, Lenox Memorial Middle and High School, Monument Mountain High School and Mt. Everett Regional High School.
Thanks in part to grants from the Great Barrington, Lenox and Monterey Cultural Councils as well as private sponsors and friends of the museum, each high school intern receives a $200 stipend for the two-week internship. The museum is also seeking a college student for an eight-week internship.
The internship application can be found on the museum’s website, www.bidwellhousemuseum.org. The deadline for applications is April 30.
