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Meet our Staff Bloggers! Twice a week, they provide a behind-the-scenes view of life and work at Conner Prairie. Read blog posts here: Staff Blog
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Nathan Allen
Historic Trades/Maintenance Manager
What do you enjoy in your free time? In my free time, I enjoy spending time with my 7-month old twin daughters. I also enjoy being in the outdoors. Camping, fishing, canoeing, and hunting are some of my favorite activities.

If you could meet one historical figure, who would it be? I think if I could go back in time, i would be interested in not meeting a specific historical figure, but just talk to and work with craftsmen. The types of techniques we are still trying to learn, they did just as day-to-day commonplace tasks. I think it would be amazing to see their expertise and to learn from them.
Nathan Allen
Historic Trades/Maintenance Manager
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Rosie Arnold
Education Programs Manager
Top three favorite things at Conner Prairie:
-The amazing stories we get to tell
-The fantastic people I get to work with
-Watching our guests have experiences that inspire them to learn more and try new things

Favorite indoor and outdoor activity: My favorite indoor activity is cozying up with a great book and a cup of coffee. I like to do a lot of things outside, but my favorite is probably just walking. If I could get away with it, I'd never drive anywhere.

Three favorite hobbies/interests: I love to travel, cook, dig through flea markets and antique stores, and spend time with great people.


Which celebrity do you get mistaken for? I was once told I look like a young Andie McDowell.

What is something we should know about you?
I love history, and I think it's most valuable when it's shared. I believe we should learn something new every day (and we probably will, even if we don't mean to). I have come to love the unexpected.
Rosie Arnold
Education Programs Manager
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Noelle Leiblic
Team Leader - Civil War Journey
Top three tavorite things at Conner Prairie: 1859 Balloon Voyage, cannons, and firing the 1861 Springfield Rifle.

Favorite indoor and outdoor activity: Skating! Rollerskating or inline, especially on a paved beach trail.

Three favorite hobbies/interests: Camping, fishing, knitting, games of all kinds, animals (especially my two kitties Battlecat and YinYin) and singing at the top of my lungs.

Which celebrity do you get mistaken for? Judge Judy.

What is something we should know about you? I once had a job training cats.
Noelle Leiblic
Team Leader - Civil War Journey
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Sarah Morin
Youth Experience Manager aka Kid Wrangler
Top three favorite things at Conner Prairie: Hearth cooking, character interactions, and spinning and weaving - especially when youth do it!

Favorite indoor and outdoor activity: Indoor: Napkin stories
Outdoor: long walks

Three favorite hobbies/interests:
-Books
-Band (I play the euphonium with my dad in a community band)
-Jane Austen
-Christian apologetics
-Crocheting

Which celebrity do you get mistaken for? I'm not often mistaken for celebrities, though small children sometimes mistake me for a jungle gym.

What is something we should know about you?
I am fluent in Pig Latin.
Sarah Morin
Youth Experience Manager aka Kid Wrangler
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Emma St. Dennis
Executive Assistant to the President & CEO, Ellen Rosenthal
Top three favorite things at Conner Prairie: Gardens, young calves, and walking the paths through the trees.

Favorite indoor and outdoor activity: Indoor: Watching really old movies, preferably musicals
Outdoor: Creating new flower beds and gardening

Three favorite hobbies/interests:
-Five grandchildren
-Singing/performing in the church choir
-Listening to all genres of music and attending the local symphony and theatre shows
-Researching family history
-Handicrafts/decorating - after all, presentation is so important!

Which celebrity do you get mistaken for? Really, you think there is someone out there that looks like me?

What is something we should know about you? I was born and raised a Frankfort, IN "Hot Dog". I am married with three daughters, sons-in law and five grandkids, along with two cats at the present time.
Emma St. Dennis
Executive Assistant to the President & CEO, Ellen Rosenthal
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Ellen Van Zanten
Experience Specialist
Top three favorite things at Conner Prairie:
-It never gets boring - I have learned so many new skills that I would not have known otherwise.
-I get to work outside.
-I love showing people history. I'm always struck by how some things never change, that there are always things in the past that people can relate to.

Favorite indoor and outdoor activity: I'm originally from Michigan so my favorite outdoor activity is, and always will be, swimming in the lake.

Three favorite hobbies/interests:
-I enjoy reading
-My fiance and I like looking for hole-in-the-wall restaurants and diners
-We also like going to wineries in the summertime with the family

Which celebrity do you get mistaken for? None that I've ever known of; people have told me that I should have my own talk show much like Ellen DeGeneres, but what would they call it? "Ellen" is already taken...

What is something we should know about you? I don't know...I guess I always try to have a joke handy? Unless you've already heard it, then never mind...
Ellen Van Zanten
Experience Specialist
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Jenna Gehlhausen: Guest Blogger
Horizon Council - Communications
Top three favorite things at Conner Prairie:
-Headless Horseman
-Symphony on the Prairie
-The accuracy of all the historical elements

Favorite indoor and outdoor activity: I'm a reader, which I do both inside and out.

Three favorite hobbies/interests: Reading and writing are both a huge part of my life. Every spring I plant a vegetable garden that I kill in two to three months. I enjoy almost anything that my 4-year-old son does, with the exception of Sharkboy and Lavagirl, which is truly a horrible movie.


Which celebrity do you get mistaken for? I get Twiggy and pre-crazy Anne Heche a lot. (What would you do if I said Freddie Krueger?)

What is something we should know about you? The most interesting man in the world thinks I'm the most interesting woman in the world.
Jenna Gehlhausen: Guest Blogger
Horizon Council - Communications

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