Meet Lachy our latest intern!

Creative Folk | August 20, 2026

What attracts you to being an intern with Celebrate Living History?

An internship with Celebrate Living History is an amazing opportunity to partake in a different kind of journalism that I don’t get the privilege of doing with my degree.

It allows me to find interesting stories from people who have lives filled with knowledge and stories that deserve to be heard but will often go untold and forgotten about because no one took the time to ask them about it.

I think that this is a really valuable process to be a part of, and it is a chance for me to grow as a journalist; learning how to sit with someone and properly listen and help them share something that matters to them.

I believe that these stories, and the people telling the stories, are an integral part of a blossoming community, and I am grateful to have the chance to contribute to that.

Who is an older person that you admire, and why?

There are many older people I admire, Neil Young, David Attenborough, Bob Dylan, Helen Garner, the list goes on.

When I think deeper about admiration in the context of an older person there are a few factors that I have to take into account: the experiences they have had to navigate through their life, the resilience through difficult periods, the insight and perspective they have developed, and the kindness they show to others.

This brought me to the conclusion that the older person I admire most and had the greatest impact on the person that I am today is my grandfather (Pa to me, and whose tales I will be writing about). He has been a source of wisdom, through my upbringing. He taught me what it means to be a man, having strength and courage, especially to own up to my mistakes, having respect for people and their opinions even if I disagree with them, how to be supportive to others, and having self-awareness.

These are all traits that he has imbued in me from a young age, and I consider these to be the making of a good person.

If you could jump into a time machine, what era would you visit, and why?

As an avid history enthusiast this is a question that I think about quite often, and is quite a difficult one to answer, US western expansion, the opulence of the Mughal Empire, the fall of Constantinople; these would all be incredible but the era I would pick to travel back to is between 500-300BCE, the cultural and scientific advances across the world during this period were immense.

This period was the golden age of Ancient Greece; The Greek city-states hold off the Persian invasions in famous battles (Marathon, Salamis, and Eurymedon) which we know so much about thanks to Herodotus inventing history as an academic discipline. Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides shared twenty-four years walking the earth, three of the greatest playwrights. Modern philosophical ideas are beginning to be thought up by Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, laying the foundation for western philosophy that is still so important today, and almost concurrently there is Buddhism being developed in India, Confucianism, and Taoism.

To stand at the crossroads of this era would be to witness the intellectual awakening of humanity. Not to mention Alexander the Great too.