Ryan Cutting

• Maintained cleanliness and sanitation standards using machine and manual cleaning methods.
• Scrubbed and sanitized dishes, pots, pans, utensils, and other kitchen equipment.
• Removed garbage and trash to designated disposal areas in accordance with health regulations.
• Sanitized surfaces after each use following standard sanitation practices.
• Maintained adequate levels of cleaning supplies for washing dishes.
• Ensured that workstations were kept neat and tidy throughout the shift.
• Performed other needed kitchen tasks, prepared food, wiped down food carts, mixed salsa by hand, boxed salsa, along with other various tasks as needed.

• Conducted archival research on African American history relating to slavery in the state of New Hampshire.
• Communicated with team members and professors effectively.
• Wrote an essay using the resources found in the archives and in various secondary sources.\

. General office management and work, as well as doing research for the trail, helping expand the knowledge of Black history in New Hampshire by doing archival research at the New Hampshire Historical Society, the Portsmouth Public Library, Strawberry Banke Museum, and the Portsmouth Athenaeum in order to be able to speak on different stories of Black individuals in New Hampshire history.

. Created brochures and publish promotional material for the trail. Along with helping to produce 'On the Trail' videos for the Trail's YouTube channel.

. Assisting with events held by the trail, such as the Yearly Juneteenth Celebration and the Yearly Black New England Conference, held in October.

• Recorded historical, architectural, and recreational information about various barn sites.
• Compiled information to write a page for each site, noting the details discussed above.
• Recorded certain directory information about the operations of the site, in regard to hours, seasons of operation, etc. All of this is with the goal of creating a barn trail that the public could access through a website that will be created, and the pages on the individual barns would be uploaded to it.
• Learned how to communicate with different sites through a variety of methods, such as email and phone calls.
• I gave a PowerPoint presentation about my internship to community members of NH at UNH Durham

• Conducted research on South Africa relating to social welfare, housing, ageism, and the elderly. The period examined was between 1870, during the colonial period of South Africa, and 1948, in the pre-apartheid era.
• I helped Professor Casey Golomski do research for his book by looking through related materials in books, articles, and Ph.D. dissertations.
• Created a Word document that was ordered chronologically by year and contained the citation for the material, a book review if it was a book, the summary or abstract for the material, a content summary of the information relevant to what the professor was looking for, and specific page numbers for those references found in the text. There was also a primary resource component as I looked at it directly translated resources relating to the establishment and history of an elderly care facility in White River, South Africa.