Archival Outreach

The Forward Club

As the archivist for the Lemon Grove Historical Society, I had an opportunity to celebrate the long running women's club in Lemon Grove, originally call the Forward Club.  Their clubhouse still stands, and in our archives I found the date of the first meeting there. I helped to organize a celebration held in the historic clubhouse exactly 100 years since the first meeting, May 12, 2022.  At this event I gave a lecture about the history of the club based on the archival collection. I later presented a poster at the Society of California Archivists annual general meeting about the experience in April 2023 and designed and installed an exhibit in the Lemon Grove Parsonage Museum about the history of the club in June of 2023.

Josephine Waite: Lemon Grove Farm Girl

The Lemon Grove Historical Society archive has the Waite Family Papers, which includes a collection of letters that Josephine wrote to her father in 1919-1920. I wrote a research paper focused on the letters of Josephine, and in October 2024 gave a lecture on the same topic. I also created a display and shared photos and letters from the Waite Family papers at a Women's History Fair at the San Diego History Center in March 2025.

The Lemon Grove Review: A California Revealed Project

The Lemon Grove Review is our hometown newspaper that ran from 1948-1999. It chronicles the growth of our small town, and the Lemon Grove Historical Society has the only known copies of this incredible resource. Through the California Revealed Grant program, I have worked with others to get this newspaper digitized and searchable online. I gave a lecture about the project with Cynthia Doyle in January of 2024. I also installed a small exhibit in the Lemon Grove Parsonage Museum about the newspaper's history and our digitization project.

Merritt Woodcraft Exhibit

This is a small exhibit I based on a collection donated to the Lemon Grove Historical Society in 2024. This exhibit highlights the life and work of a local wood worker, J.G. Merritt.

San Diego County Clerk Recorder Archive: Instagram Plan

While a student intern at the County Archives, I created Instagram plans to promote the archival collections.  Here is an example of a plan I wrote to be posted in June 2024