FFSS Internship (Spring) Week 13

Hello! Here is this week’s update on my internship with the Florida France Soldier Stories project:

After my post last week, I sent the biography I was tasked with working on to the project manager to review, and I began to review the biography I had originally wrote in HIS4150 in fall 2024. The previous edits mostly filled in some gaps and clarified some sections from my original work, and now it is time for me to fill in the information that we gained after the project was completed that semester. To do this, I picked up a book from Dr. Lyons on Tuesday that was published by a historian named Samuel de Korte. When I was a student in HIS4150, I found the book randomly one day online before it was published, and we connected with the author, who then was able to include Stafford (the veteran I researched) and his photo into his monograph. I am now able to use this source in our biography to fill in gaps regarding the unit he served in, which was the 452nd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion. 

Before our meeting this week, I was able to go back through the biography to re-familiarize myself with Stafford's story and make small edits before using the new source. 

In our meeting, we discussed our individual progress on the biographies, and brought up some questions we had about our editing process. I had a few questions about the "Legacy" section, specifically about the veteran's brother who I could not find any further information on after what we had gathered in the "Early Life" section. Dr. Lyons told me that we may just not have any of that information available to us, and that the project manager would look for it again when she was editing it from this point forward. Much of the discussion we had about my progress was aimed toward the continued editing of the project manager, and I got to make notes on the documents so that we remember to do these things in the coming weeks before the end of the semester. 

We also discussed elements of Stafford's biography relating to the new information, and I will be able to go in and edit to reflect the source before our next meeting in two weeks, which is when I will have more details in this regard. I believe we only have two more official meetings for the internship for this semester, since my time with them ends in early May. I will also be working on my presentation for the internship showcase on April 24, which will be very fun! I cannot wait to hear about everyone's semesters and all the great things they did in their projects. 

See you next week! 



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