Viewshed: The Blog of Roosevelt-Vanderbilt National Historic Sites

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Welcome to Viewshed: The Blog of Roosevelt-Vanderbilt National Historic Sites. Viewshed is a forum for stories related to the National Park Service sites of Hyde Park, New York, written by park employees, park partners, and guests. Here, you can read about our park’s museum collections, the life and times of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, the Gilded age culture in which the Vanderbilts thrived, as well as the people who work at our park to preserve and interpret these histories. We hope these posts leave you with a greater understanding of the National Historic Sites of Hyde Park, their histories, and their impact. Enjoy!

The Employee Experience : Elizabeth Nicholson

September 10, 2021 Posted by: Elizabeth Nicholson

Elizabeth Nicholson spent her summer as an intern in the National Park Service's Traditional Trades Apprenticeship Program. Among the biggest projects that she, fellow intern Marie, and Roosevelt-Vanderbilt maintenance staff completed was replacing the roof on the large ice house at the Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site. Read on to learn more about this project and other experiences Elizabeth had at the park this summer.

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