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Unburying the Secret History of Slaves - 1 views

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    This is the story of Galland's (The Bond Between Women: A Journey to Fierce Compassion) involvement in restoring a rural African American burial ground in east Texas. While researching black history in her hometown of Dallas, Galland became interested in slave cemeteries and heard about the abandoned Love Cemetery in Harrison County. Although black farmers had owned the surrounding land after the Civil War, by the early 20th century, whites effectively gained control of the area through such means as illegal seizure as payment for debts. Later, the logging industry took over the land and prevented descendants from visiting the gravesites. Galland brought together many volunteers of varying races, ages, and faiths to restore the cemetery in a series of cleanups. As a white woman, she became unsure of her role in leading the restoration but never gave up hope that the cemetery could be used to further racial reconciliation. Her book brings attention to the history of black Texans and demonstrates the importance of restoring slave cemeteries. Recommended for African American history collections in public libraries.--Kathryn Stewart SLIS student, Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City
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    This is the story of Galland's (The Bond Between Women: A Journey to Fierce Compassion) involvement in restoring a rural African American burial ground in east Texas. While researching black history in her hometown of Dallas, Galland became interested in slave cemeteries and heard about the abandoned Love Cemetery in Harrison County. Although black farmers had owned the surrounding land after the Civil War, by the early 20th century, whites effectively gained control of the area through such means as illegal seizure as payment for debts. Later, the logging industry took over the land and prevented descendants from visiting the gravesites. Galland brought together many volunteers of varying races, ages, and faiths to restore the cemetery in a series of cleanups. As a white woman, she became unsure of her role in leading the restoration but never gave up hope that the cemetery could be used to further racial reconciliation. Her book brings attention to the history of black Texans and demonstrates the importance of restoring slave cemeteries. Recommended for African American history collections in public libraries.--Kathryn Stewart SLIS student, Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City
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The Locust Grove African- American Cemetery Restoration Project: A Case Study of Serv... - 0 views

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    This article chronicles a movement to restore Shippensburg, Pennsylvania's Locust Grove Cemetery, a historic African-American burial ground. The cemetery faced persistent troubles exacerbated by changing demographics in the surrounding neighborhood, its caretakers' limited resources, and the community's history of racial discrimination. Beginning in 2003, Shippensburg University applied history students assisted with research, grant writing, and interpretative materials. By 2005, a community coalition formed that built on the students' efforts, ultimately mobilizing the resources needed to finish the restoration. This case study illustrates the complex dynamics of a community preservation campaign and ways Public History programs can support such efforts.
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    This article chronicles a movement to restore Shippensburg, Pennsylvania's Locust Grove Cemetery, a historic African-American burial ground. The cemetery faced persistent troubles exacerbated by changing demographics in the surrounding neighborhood, its caretakers' limited resources, and the community's history of racial discrimination. Beginning in 2003, Shippensburg University applied history students assisted with research, grant writing, and interpretative materials. By 2005, a community coalition formed that built on the students' efforts, ultimately mobilizing the resources needed to finish the restoration. This case study illustrates the complex dynamics of a community preservation campaign and ways Public History programs can support such efforts.
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"From Troubled Ground to Common Ground": The Locust Grove African-American Cemetery Res... - 3 views

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    This article chronicles a movement to restore Shippensburg, Pennsylvania's Locust Grove Cemetery, a historic African-American burial ground. The cemetery faced persistent troubles exacerbated by changing demographics in the surrounding neighborhood, its caretakers' limited resources, and the community's history of racial discrimination. Beginning in 2003, Shippensburg University applied history students assisted with research, grant writing, and interpretative materials. By 2005, a community coalition formed that built on the students' efforts, ultimately mobilizing the resources needed to finish the restoration. This case study illustrates the complex dynamics of a community preservation campaign and ways Public History programs can support such efforts.
kariannyo

The restorative outcomes of forest school and conventional school in young people with ... - 3 views

  • Firstly, this research extends restorative environment research by showing that the effects of nature extend to positive outcomes in young people; secondly, it shows restoration potentially extends to reflection on personal goals; and thirdly, it indicates that the amount of restoration can vary depending on behaviour state.
  • forest school
  • amount of change
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      Outdoor education can have a positive change on behavior (as compared to a conventional indoor school setting). 
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  • psychological restoration
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      Different settings have the ability to promote recovery of cognitive and emotional resources in young people with varying behavior states. 
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Philosophy Gone Urban: Reflections on Urban Restoration - De–Shalit - 2003 - Jour... - 2 views

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      Page 22: "But if instead..." There is an approach to restoration, other than the one of nostalgia 
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Project MUSE - Landscape Journal: design, planning, and management of the land - Challe... - 4 views

  • recovery of an ecosystem with respect to its health, integrity and sustainability” (SER 2004, 1) and “the process of assisting the recovery of an ecosystem that has been degraded, damaged, or destroyed”
  • Maintenance of indigenous species often requires extensive “weeding” (usually conducted with herbicides) and pruning. Replanting is often necessary to meet safety requirements and avoid woody growth in urban areas.
  • RE frequently claims to achieve such outcomes but often results in a cosmetic application and pastiche of historic “nature” (Pierce 1994). Even if native/indigenous plants are capable of mitigating these issues there is a high likelihood that non-native plants will be more effective without necessarily excluding native fauna (Low 1999, 2003). Broadening restoration from the attempted reconstruction of historical states to focus on delivering ecosystem services, resources, productivity, and resilience is paramount to improving its urban compatibility and effectiveness. This objective would be better achieved without dogmatic bias to nativism and indigenous plants, especially in areas where these no longer occur.
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Alabama's endangered historic landmarks: once again, the Alabama Historical Commission,... - 2 views

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    FOR THE PAST SIXTEEN YEARS, the Alabama Historical Commission (AHC), the Alabama Trust for Historic Preservation (ATHP), and Alabama Heritage magazine have joined forces to publicize historic places endangered by neglect, lack of funds, or demolition. This year's Places in Peril highlights ten significant properties dating from the late 1840s to the late 1940s, including a "modern" apartment complex, a theater, a railroad depot, a church and community center, a hardware store, a collection of citywide schools, a slave cemetery, a historic district, an entire community, and an antebellum house. Inspired by the National Trust for Historic Preservation's America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places list, Places in Peril generates awareness of the threats facing Alabama's important historic resources.
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    FOR THE PAST SIXTEEN YEARS, the Alabama Historical Commission (AHC), the Alabama Trust for Historic Preservation (ATHP), and Alabama Heritage magazine have joined forces to publicize historic places endangered by neglect, lack of funds, or demolition. This year's Places in Peril highlights ten significant properties dating from the late 1840s to the late 1940s, including a "modern" apartment complex, a theater, a railroad depot, a church and community center, a hardware store, a collection of citywide schools, a slave cemetery, a historic district, an entire community, and an antebellum house. Inspired by the National Trust for Historic Preservation's America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places list, Places in Peril generates awareness of the threats facing Alabama's important historic resources.
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Burying and Remembering the Dead - 2 views

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    In cemeteries, we do not remember our dead privately or quietly, as for example, in prayers. Instead, we do so publicly and visibly, so that what we do (or do not do) can be noticed by the public. But how do we remember and commemorate our dead at public cemeteries? Based on mixed-methods analyses of the markers for the dead at cemeteries in a religiously relatively homogeneous (namely, Catholic) region, three recent socio-cultural evolutions are identified and analyzed: (1) the construction of idiosyncratic markers and the accompanying emergence of individualized identities, (2) the emphasis on embodied modes of remembrance, and (3) the increasing visibility of voluntary social commitments and strong ties. Overall, the findings presented here point to the growing diversification of our ways of publicly remembering and commemorating the dead.
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    In cemeteries, we do not remember our dead privately or quietly, as for example, in prayers. Instead, we do so publicly and visibly, so that what we do (or do not do) can be noticed by the public. But how do we remember and commemorate our dead at public cemeteries? Based on mixed-methods analyses of the markers for the dead at cemeteries in a religiously relatively homogeneous (namely, Catholic) region, three recent socio-cultural evolutions are identified and analyzed: (1) the construction of idiosyncratic markers and the accompanying emergence of individualized identities, (2) the emphasis on embodied modes of remembrance, and (3) the increasing visibility of voluntary social commitments and strong ties. Overall, the findings presented here point to the growing diversification of our ways of publicly remembering and commemorating the dead.
kariannyo

Ordering the city: land use, policing, and the res... - 1 views

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      Page 161: "Policing, meanwhile, began..." Crime rate was going down with policing. With this, the illegal dumping at the cemetery may stop. 
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Social Dynamics and Sustainable Urban Design - Springer - 5 views

  • improve human well-being, understanding that such well-being depends on a healthy ecosystem
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      Improving the state of East End cemetery may postively affect the community.
  • Quality of life is enhanced
  • increases opportunities for experiencing happiness and beauty
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  • understanding current social dynamics of cities so that designs are sensitive to the broad demographic and economic trends of urbanization. Urban design has the power to help societies move toward a more just and sustainable future.
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    The designed, built environment is the most obvious expression of urbanization, but cities are made of people, too. Any efforts to design resilient or sustainable cities must therefore take into accou
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