About

My name is Drew Black. I am (currently) running this blog for a class at Washington State University.

In addition to being a Senior-year Student, I am a Historical Preservationist and a “Living Historian”. No, I do not have a degree in these areas.  I have, however, volunteered at several history museums. At the Northwest Railway Museum, I volunteer on train crew for the Museum’s heritage railway. At the Western Heritage Center, I drive historic tractors, maintain the model railway displays, and generally help keep the hands-on exhibits operational. At the Palouse Newspaper and Printing Museum, I help build exhibits and get antique printing machines functional again. I work as a docent at all three museums.

When I’m not volunteering at museums, I can usually be found exploring  abandoned railway grades, browsing thrift stores and antique shops for the next addition to my antique kerosene lantern collection, or out photographing railways and other historical things I find interesting. If I’m not out and about, I’m probably back in my dorm, working on one of my model railroads.

While I will be graduating in May, having majored in Digital Technology & Culture, I am still interested in finding railroad work when I have completed my studies at WSU.