(Hi)Story Telling: Neighborhood Archaeology in the Southern Appalachians
The tradition of Appalachian story telling thrives in the mountains of western North Carolina. Given the region’s equally strong tradition of small family farms, many of the stories you hear recount local family histories and increasingly drastic changes in the surrounding landscape. In the small town of Canton, NC, I have partnered with the Canton ...
Reflections on the auto-ethnographic essay
On the morning of my first drive into Dearborn to begin my internship at the Arab American National Museum, the ether was aflutter transmitting the news of Osama Bin Laden’s death. The day was May 2, 2011, and only hours before my morning commute had the news broke. The chatter on the radio ran the ...
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