History Student Completes Summer Internship at Mount Vernon

Marianna Nichols, a junior at Judson College in Marion, recently completed an internship at George Washington’s estate in Mount Vernon, Virginia. She spent the months of June and July as a historic interpreter on Pioneer Farm.

Nichols and the six other historic trades interns in the George Washington Entrepreneur Internship program dressed in period clothing and performed demonstrations at each of the farm’s sites, pausing to speak with visitors about the farm’s history and present operation. 

Nichols also volunteered with Mount Vernon’s Archaeology Department on a project at a slave cemetery dig site.