(Tribune News Service) — Months into her role at Fort Monroe’s
Casemate Museum, director Francoise Bonnell has kept busy discovering relics within its cavernous halls and stories yet to be shared.
But cleaning, archiving and moving bookcases inside a museum embedded within a stone structure two centuries old comes with drawbacks — water gets inside easily and nobody knows exactly what’s buried around there.
“I think the greatest challenge, that we’re faced is the age. There’s not anything I’ve realized now that I’m going to set my eyes on doing that will not have immediate challenges because of the age of the space. But that kind of challenge, I find quite remarkable,” Bonnell said.