Kathryne is the new Curator of Education for the Delaware History Museum and has been working for the Delaware Historical Society since May of 2010. She LOVES history and debating about different history topics and truly believes history is a constantly changing, living organism. It’s not just a set of names and dates but has true meaning in her everyday life. Born in Dover, DE to parents that loved history themselves, she knew from and early age that history was important. Kathryne has worked in museums all over the State including the Delaware Agricultural Museum, the Delaware State Museums, and Iron Hill Museum. In her non-work life Kathryne also enjoys adventure, being outdoors, taking photography and painting, and of course, visiting museums.
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Antoinette, a native Delawarean, is the Curator of Education at the Read House and Gardens for the Delaware Historical Society. She has been working for the Delaware History Museum and the Read House and Gardens since 2004. Antoinette attended Delaware public schools (Red Clay and Christina), and has even had the opportunity to reunite with some of her elementary teachers 20 years later on their field trips with their new 4th grade students. One of her earliest museum experiences was on her 4th grade field trip to Historic New Castle and the Read House and Gardens, she recalls being very intrigued by the walking tour and the paint analysis that was conducted in the Read House during the 1980s, it was then that her love of history in her own back yard began! Antoinette is a graduate of the University of Delaware with a BA in History. She is currently in graduate school at Wilmington University, working to complete her MEd in Elementary Education. As a Curator of Education, Antoinette schedules school field trips, manages K-6th grade educational programming and adult programming at the Read House and Gardens, she manages a museum education staff and conducts outreach programming for the Delaware Historical Society. Antoinette recently began a term as the Education Committee Chair for the Friends of the Furness Railroad District.
Antoinette enjoys travelling, visiting historic homes and gardens, art museums, natural wonders, photography, theatre, film, and music.
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Michele
Acting Chief Executive Officer
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For more than twenty years, Ellen Rendle has been the Curator of Images in the library of the Delaware Historical Society and for the past twelve years, she has also worked as the state coordinator for National History Day in Delaware. You are welcome to ask any time to get a glimpse into the depth of the collections, they are curious, beautiful, enlightening and a wonderful cultural asset for the state history and to our understanding of Delaware history.
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Greg
Gregory Coin has a B.A. Degree in History, an M.A. in Humanities, and has completed all but his dissertation fro PhD in American Studies in a joint program at George Washington University and the Library of Congress. He is also a classically trained pianist and a Vietnam Veteran. Gregory has held senior resource development positions at Winterthur Museum, Wheaton Village and the Cummer Museum of Art, and is currently Chief Advancement Officer for the Delaware Historical Society. He loves cooking, traveling, great jazz, and like all Kentucky natives, basketball!
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Heather is working with the Delaware Historical Society to enhance the DHS online catalog. For the past four years she have been pursuing her passion for history, working as an archivist and educator in historic houses, museums, and libraries. Heather is a graduate of The University of Texas at Arlington where she studied history and sociology. In 2009, she earned her M.A. from Temple University’s public history program. For her thesis project she wrote about the Odunde Festival, an annual African American street festival held on South Street in Philadelphia. As a historian, she is particularly interested in memory and how we choose to represent the past. Aside from her work, she loves reading, swimming, cooking, theater, and Phillies baseball.
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Joelen is the Online Catalog Project Manager in the library at the Delaware Historical Society. She studied English and Russian at Johns Hopkins University and received an M.A. from NYU in Russian and Slavic Studies. She received her M.L.S. from the Pratt Institute and has worked at a variety of libraries along the east coast from New York to Virginia. She is excited for the opportunity to work on the online catalog at the library because it puts her in touch with Delaware’s rich history and gives the public improved access to the Society’s wonderful resources. She looks forward to sharing her discoveries as she works with the library’s collections, and hopes her experiences will help to show that history IS exciting! Outside of work, Joelen enjoys reading, cooking (and eating!), visiting art museums, going on outdoor adventures, and shopping for old records.
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Natalie is a relative newcomer to the history and library profession. Before coming to the Delaware Historical Society as one of the OPAC project catalogers, she worked in a variety of history and non-history positions. She earned her undergraduate degree in History in 2006 and graduated from the University of Delaware in 2010 with a master’s degree in History and Museum Studies certificate. She is currently completing coursework at the University of Maryland towards a master’s degree in Library Science.
Previously, Natalie taught English as a Foreign Language at a university in Quito, Ecuador. She fell in love with the people, culture, and places of Ecuador and spends a few weeks there every January to escape from the cold Northern winter weather and to practice her Spanish. She also enjoys cooking Ecuadorean and non-Ecuadorean food, reading, and spoiling the family cat, George. She is excited to help make the priceless collections at DHS available to a wider audience through the new online catalog and loves the thrill of discovering something “new” in Delaware history every day.
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Connie
Chief Curator, Editor, Delaware History
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Jennifer
Jennifer is the Curator of Objects for the Delaware Historical Society and has been working with the Society’s collections since late 2007. Although originally from the U.K., she has worked in various museums in Massachusetts before coming to Delaware. She enjoys the curious, fascinating, and sometimes odd nature of the objects that often end up in historical collections, and loves to learn, share, and document their stories. When not contemplating the twists and turns of an object’s past life, she enjoys books (the kind that still have real pages!), being outdoors, running, reading, and browsing in antique shops, flea markets, and library book sales.
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