Say Hello to Sarah…

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Sarah Buchtel – Research Coordinator

We invite our followers to get to know Sarah Buchtel, our Research Coordinator volunteer at the McKinley Presidential Library!

Sarah is a Stark County native. She grew up down the road from Taggarts and remembers going there all the time with her family. Some of her favorite memories as a kid was going to the Pro Football Hall of Fame parade. Her family would get up really early and go to Mary Ann Donuts for breakfast before setting up their seats to watch the parade. When she was about 6, her family moved to Plain Township, where she had a nice home with a big backyard to play in.

As for schooling, she went to Clarendon Elementary, moved to Frazer, and completed her elementary education at Taft Elementary school all in Canton, Ohio. She went to Glenoak High School and graduated in 2002. During high school, she worked at Chick-fil-A, and wanted to continue working there during college. She attended Malone University as a history major for a year, but found it hard to work while going to school. She worked at Chick-fil-A for 12 years and has been at her current job for the past 9 years. She works as a manager of a family owned business, Affordable Uniforms, near the Cuyahoga region.

When she is not working or volunteering, she loves to travel with her family and friends. Every 2 years, Sarah and her best friend plan a road trip to go places neither of them have visited. One of her favorite places to go when traveling is Walt Disney World Resort and she enjoys spending time riding the roller coasters and enjoying the Florida sun.

She loves to learn and enjoys reading about ancient Egyptian history. Sarah became interested in ancient Egyptian history, at a young age, and that continues to be one of her passions. Her grandmother used to read lots of books by the same author and many of the book covers included scenes or drawings of Egypt. In the future, she plans to hopefully travel with an archaeologist to Egypt and explore her passion.

Sarah started as a volunteer in the McKinley Presidential Library last September after one of her friends invited her to visit her while she was volunteering. She had always wanted to be a volunteer, but never had the time due to work constraints. After visiting her friend and seeing the Presidential Library for the first time, Sarah arranged her work schedule to make some time to volunteer.

Sarah loves how welcoming the environment in the library is. She finds learning about the other volunteers interesting because many of them have worked in different careers, but each found themselves in the same place because of their shared love of history and Stark County.

Sarah’s role in the Presidential Library is to go through all of the research requests that people submit to us using our online form. Occasionally she receives a written request through the regular mail that is difficult to answer.

She invites more people to become volunteers. The more people volunteering, the more projects can be completed and new projects can be started.

Sarah wants more people to understand how important history is and why it should be preserved. She finds it important for others to recognize the good and bad of history and how to learn from the past instead of romanticizing about how life used to be.

We want to thank Sarah for letting us interview her and allow us to share her story on our social media. Our team at the McKinley Presidential Library loves being able to share stories of our volunteers with people outside of the museum and we want you to be apart of that too!

If you would like information on how to become a volunteer, be sure to private message our page or call the museum at: (330) 455-7043

 

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Goodbye and Congratulations to Sarah Dickes…

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With heavy hearts, our team at the McKinley Presidential Library say goodbye to one of our interns, Sarah Dickes.

Sarah has been an intern here since August 2018 and has been a real pleasure to get to know. She has been a huge help with many of our ongoing projects and helping wherever she can. We are so fortunate to have had her in our library and the opportunity to get to know her during her time here. Sarah has a blog where she has posted about some of the projects she has worked on here. You can see some screenshots of her blog below by scrolling through the slideshow.

She has just completed her last year at Malone University as a History major and Communications minor and is moving on to Syracuse, New York to pursue her career in Museum Studies and Library Sciences for graduate school.

We want to congratulate her on her journey and wish her all the best as she moves forward!    

 

 

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It’s Not My Story, It’s Your Story

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Malone University, Ted Gup

Tuesday December 3, 2013 One Book, One Community presents Meet the Author: Ted Gup who wrote A Secret Gift. The event was held on Malone University’s Campus, in Canton. The land Malone now sits on once played host to the Stark County Infirmary, or Children’s Home, or Poor House.

This night was reserved for the event that would galvanize, Canton, Ohio Christmas week, of 1933 in the midst of the Great Depression. Ted Gup graciouly signed books from 6:00 P.M. to a little after 7:00 P.M. The campus dining room began to swell with the people who were interested in hearing the author of such an emotional book speak, in his own words, of the how it wasn’t his story, but our story. People are drawn to people, and so this story is about ourselves, and how we deal with the world around us, and with each other.

As we stood in line, we could hear people in front of us talking about their relatives who were in the book. I introduced myself, and let him know that we were taking good care of “his” letters. He signed my book, and gave me a directive, in his message, to take care of the past, and thank you. I was deeply moved, and did not take the directive lightly.

Ted’s mother Virginia was with him; and he showed us some images of his grandfather Sam, some letters, and his grandfather’s “passport.” His presentation was half speaking, and half disscussion. He really couldn’t wait to listen to our stories and field our questions. The entire experience was moving, and inspirational.

More later…