Interns will become familiar with the local history and everyday lifestyles of the area, including economics, social values, and recreation. They will then choose a 19 th century local character whose life they will portray while doing first person interpretation. The Internship Interns, both women and men, come to Norlands for many reasons. Some use the internship for college credit or independent studies. Others come to gain experience in Museum education, historic agriculture, first person interpretation, and social history or museum studies.
Internships are varied in length and, generally, stating dates are flexible.
As interpreters of a rural lifestyle, interns should be comfortable with barns and livestock, dirt paths, outhouses, kerosene lamps and cooking and heating with woodstoves. An internship is an intense and demanding position. Norlands needs interns with a high energy level, initiative, enthusiasm, and the willingness to communicate the heritage of rural Maine to people of all ages and backgrounds. Interns are housed with other staff members in a Cape Cod house on the Norlands property, half a mile from the interpretive area. Each intern has a private sleeping room and shares a kitchen, living room and bath.