Community-Based Leadership
Your friends and neighbors represent the community through regular meetings and other volunteer service to provide local history activities that meet the needs and interests of the community.
Please feel free to contact Crystal or members of the Board of Directors listed below to share your ideas and questions.
Please feel free to contact Crystal or members of the Board of Directors listed below to share your ideas and questions.
Staff
Crystal Wimer
Executive Director
Executive Director
Board Members
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Ann Davis - Board Member
Clarksburg, WV Carmen Tyce - Board Member Bridgeport, WV Ryan Kennedy - Board Member Clarksburg, WV Victor Folio - Board Member Clarksburg, WV |
AmeriCorps Volunteer
Hello, my name is Thomas Miles, and I am the new AmeriCorps service member serving at the Harrison County Historical Society. I am a Clarksburg native, and my family runs a small trucking company called Miles Enterprises. I graduated from Robert C. Byrd High School in 2015 and proceeded to attend WVU where I graduated in May of 2020 with my B.A. in History and a minor in Political Science. My academic research interests tend to focus on labor histories looking at how the working class influences the world around us. My undergraduate capstone research paper, "Japanese Economic Aggression, Organized Labor’s Resistance, & the Path to World War II," received the WVU History Department’s Romine Award and was published in the first edition of the West Virginia University Historic Review.
While I plan on continuing my education, I chose to serve with AmeriCorps because I really want to have practical experience applying the skills I learned in college outside of academia and wanted to be near my family during this pandemic. The Harrison County Historical Society called to me because not only would I be able to serve my local community, but better connect with the history and culture I grew up around. Having grown up here, I feel like a lot of our local history and culture is lost on the youth here as organizations like ours face constantly face manpower and funding challenges especially during trying times like these. I sincerely hope that my service here can help engage more members of our community with local history and inspire people to contribute to the preservation and celebration of our past.
While I plan on continuing my education, I chose to serve with AmeriCorps because I really want to have practical experience applying the skills I learned in college outside of academia and wanted to be near my family during this pandemic. The Harrison County Historical Society called to me because not only would I be able to serve my local community, but better connect with the history and culture I grew up around. Having grown up here, I feel like a lot of our local history and culture is lost on the youth here as organizations like ours face constantly face manpower and funding challenges especially during trying times like these. I sincerely hope that my service here can help engage more members of our community with local history and inspire people to contribute to the preservation and celebration of our past.
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This Preserve AmeriCorps position was made possible through a Preservation Alliance of West Virginia grant from Volunteer WV, the State's Commission for National and Community Service, and the Corporation for National and Community Service. Opinions and points of view expressed in this documented are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the position of, or a position that is enforced by, CNCS or the AmeriCorps program.
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Neff-Hardesty Memorial Archives
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Stealey-Goff-Vance House
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hcwvhs@gmail.com
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