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Adventure Awaits!

At Talley Your Adventure, we don’t just plan luxury and culturally rich travel experiences—we live and breathe them. Our blog, travelingtalleys.blog, is where we share the real stories behind our adventures: kayaking alongside glaciers in Alaska, exploring temples in Japan, chasing waterfalls in Iceland, and wandering through storybook towns in Germany. If it’s unforgettable, chances are we’ve done it—or we’re planning it next. Impact-Site-Verification: 8a69d429-4a55-4b53-b8f6-72c437661af5

Nicolette brings deep experience in travel and heritage. With a Master’s in Public History, she’s worked as a Supervisory Park Ranger, Revenue Manager, and Program Analyst across multiple national parks for over a decade. Her career has taken her from managing interpretive boat tours in Alaska’s wild backcountry to overseeing large-scale visitor service projects with million-dollar budgets. And yes—she’s also a licensed 100-Ton Inland Master Boat Captain who’s led cultural and ecological tours from riverboats to remote beaches.

Clinton’s travel roots run just as deep. He’s worked in logistics and operations for the National Park Service and was a key member of the hospitality team aboard National Geographic Lindblad Expeditions. From managing guest services on remote international voyages to coordinating facility software systems stateside, he knows what it takes to deliver seamless, high-end travel experiences—even in the most unpredictable places.

Together, we created Talley Your Adventure to bring our experience, passion, and attention to detail to your travel planning. Whether it’s a fully curated group trip or a personalized vacation built just for you, we combine expert-level service with insider know-how—so you can focus on the magic of the journey.

Want us to help you on your next adventure? Head over to www.talleyyouradventure.com!

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Sakura Blooms – Inuyama, Japan

  • the end…and the beginning!

    Hello bloggers!

    Today was my last day as the Digital Intern at the UALR Center for Arkansas History and Culture. Its been a great journey. I started as the graduate assistant for my first semester in graduate school and ended as the digital intern.

    I have learned so much in only seven months span. I have to sincerely thank all of the archivists and of course Chad, the technology expert, for the educational experience as well as the applied experience. I can process a collection, use not only CONTENTdm but Archivist Toolkit, Handbrake, Audacity, and of course, WordPress. I have created the extensive beginnings of my digital exhibit for Carl Bailey, which brings me one MAJOR step closer to finishing my thesis. I have been able to digitize almost any type of media, from a reel-to-reel to VHS to DVD. I am confident I will take these experience and build upon them.

    I hope to continue my collaboration with the UALR CAHC and with the digital team so I can become a better historian. I will be able to show the new generation the past, with their ever changing technology.

    Starting in the fall, I will be at the William J. Clinton Presidential Library as their graduate assistant. I know that the great experience I have learned last semester and over the summer will help me with the tasks that fall before me and I cannot thank the people for helping me along the way.

    Thank you Kaye, Colin, Shannon, Kimberly, Dr. Baldwin and Chad for a great experience. There are others who have helped me as well, and I do not mean to offend by not mentioning. I worked everyday with the above people and they have helped me in my career path. I will keep you in my correspondence.

    Though I am ending one chapter of my career, I will be opening a new one in a few weeks. I cannot wait!!

  • 7th Inning Stretch

    Well, folks, here we are – last two weeks of my Digital Internship. I have completed a lot of things to date. I uploaded some pictures to the Arkansas Foodways Project website. I also finished the final draft of the Life Interrupted blog that I wrote. Mainly about the documentary Time of Fear (which you can view HERE) and the reunion of the internees in Arkansas to educate their families and the people of Arkansas. Believe it or not, there are many people living right here in Arkansas (and even outside Arkansas!) who were not aware that TWO internment camps were located in the state. Education is a great way to keep the memory alive so that we do not repeat the same mistakes.

    I am continuing to edit my Carl E. Bailey website. The UALR CAHC has his entire collection, so its the perfect opportunity to view everything he did – from correspondence to legal documentation to pictures. Its a great collection that I am excited to explore for my potential thesis!

    Next week is my last week as the Digital Intern! There are only a few other things on my list to do, and hopefully their include either born digital or coding situations. Until then, enjoy your week!

  • Carl E. Bailey and other projects

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    Above my writing is a picture of Carl Edward Bailey, Arkansas’s 31st Governor. I have also started a blog for him, at carlebailey.wordpress.com . I am very excited about this because this is the beginning of my thesis project for my Masters Program. Basically, I need to write not only a process paper but create an “exhibit”, which can also be a digital one – such as the WordPress site I am building now. Its a work in progress, but a fantastic one that I am excited to undertake!

    In addition to this, I have also learned how to take the files that the archivists have edited (the finding aids, or the papers that you look at which give a brief description of the documents that are stored in a specific place) and how to update the systems so that they can read the edits. I think I’ve explained this before, but just in case…say you want to study the 1930s and you have a list of names of people who you can look up. You come to the Arkansas Studies Institute building and talk to the person behind the desk and request a certain collection: lets say Carl Bailey! They will produce a finding aid, which lays out the collection to you. This is because many of these collections are HUGE, over 30 boxes or so. To dig through each box and each folder would take forever. But you can look through the finding aid and narrow down your search. So, when the archivists find a mistake in the typing or add new boxes or documents that are donated after the initial donation, they go in and edit the finding aid. The problem is that there are two different types of software that the finding aids need to be ready for, so this is where I step in. I go and edit them twice, once through something calling ArchiveGrid, where I just change a few structural XML files so that it can be read by the software; the other change is with Ark-Cat, where I basically click a certain button that allows the document to suppress components when marked internally. Pretty neat stuff! Think of it like this: you know when you sometimes find a fancy font and you make a beautiful document only to send it to a friend and it looks like Egyptian hieroglyphics? That’s because, though your software program on your computer can read and handle that fancy font, your friends computer may not have the same type of program so she cannot. I have now made those documents compatible with the system that your friend would have, nothing fancy, basic and to the point.

    So far, I have: 1. Digitized eight oral histories from the 1930s; 2. updated the Facebook backlog from last May to this May; 3. Made MP4 copies of the ENTIRE Rockefeller DVD collection; 4. Updated the system for ArchiveGrid and Ark-Cat; 5. Started on the Carl Bailey collection and 5. Scanned picture and created a short description for the Life Interrupted Virtual Exhibit. I have a few more things to do (whew!) such as Digitize the Public History Seminar and help upload pictures for the Foodways project (the one that I did the time line for!) and learn how to use born-digital materials. I am really hoping we have some time to learn coding, since I am pretty excited to expand my knowledge in that direction as well. So, its been a productive summer!

    Check back next week for another update! I have, including the rest of this week, three weeks left of my internship before the fall semester starts.