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Laura Lee
Interpreter
Fort Delaware State Park
Laura Lee
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Laura returns to Fort Delaware after a 12-year stint as Director of the Iron Hill Museum. While a seasonal interpreter at the Fort, she co-founded the living history program and performed archival research on the site. Laura also worked as part of the Shoreline Artifact Recovery project, and assisted with conservation of 19th-century gun carriages. She is a recipient of the Charles E. Mohr Award for Outstanding Seasonal Interpreter.
Graduating from the University of Delaware with a history degree, Laura was a recipient of the Women of Promise award. Laura returns to Delaware State Parks with a strong background in both cultural and natural interpretation, and a successful track record of grant-writing, public relations, and curriculum development of both on-site and outreach programming.
Most recently, she developed a curriculum on the history of Delaware's African American schoolhouses, subsequently securing grant funding to offer the program to every fifth grader in two of the largest school districts in Delaware. Concurrently, she initiated a successful African American oral history project, and was recently published in the book, A History of Newark, Delaware. She has presented papers at a National Trust for Historic Preservation Conference as well as the Country Schooling Conference, and has established successful partnerships with the University of Delaware and Newark Parks and Recreation.
Born and raised in Delaware, Laura's hobbies include hiking, field hockey, biking, reading, umpiring, and her two Golden Retrievers. She has five children, ranging in age from 9 to 25.