The first step in preparing the museum for the Candy Cane Train and other holiday activities is to decorate the buildings and property. This year, hundreds of ornaments were skillfully attached to the branches of trees and shrubs around the grounds by Hollanda Harwin, sons Evan and Connor, and her mother, Yollanda Leon. UCSB...
Continue readingWelcome New Intern Mariem!
The museum has a new intern for UCSB’s spring quarter 2013. Mariem Lambert is a senior majoring in anthropology. Her minor is American Indian and Indigenous Studies. After she graduates in 2014, she hopes to pursue a career in fieldwork or at a museum. Mariem grew up in the Bay Area and calls San...
Continue readingMeet Our New Intern: Shuyan Dong
The museum’s new intern for the Winter 2013 Quarter is Shuyan Dong. The 20-year-old UCSB freshman is from Hang Zhou, China. Her major is Actuarial Science. As of this writing, Shuyan has been in the U.S. for less than four months. She has been learning English in school back home since she was 9...
Continue readingNew Intern Helps With Rides & SWAP
Yegal Khouban is a Fall 2010 intern at the South Coast Railroad Museum. โIggyโ is a U.C.S.B. student majoring in anthropology. He has been helping supervise our weekend SWAP workers and is also staffing the Goleta Short Line trains. Yegal completed his engineer training on Oct. 22. On that busy free-ride day, his trains...
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