Memory Bandits

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This seminar introduces students to multiple approaches to why and how to create memory, with a focus on contributing to a project underway at Catawba Trail Farm. We are particularly interested in how to tell difficult stories of slavery, segregation, and inequality through new sites and interpretive plans. Students will conduct interviews and archival research in coordination with a Bass Connections project, 'Making Meaning at Historic Places' and the Catawba Trail Farm, a non-profit organization that builds community and addresses food insecurity through community gardening. As part of their community-building efforts, the leaders of this project are interested in reclaiming the history of the enslaved people who lived and worked on this property outside Durham.