When I stood to write this final journal (yes, stood …I’ve worked at a standing desk for years), I struggled with how best to end this exercise in public journaling: would it be a final personal narrative, or a reflection on the project itself, or something more esoteric? In the […]
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This last week has been focused on research. Yes, I’m still learning about my subject. It’s been challenging for me, putting my notes into a functional read. However, we now have an agreed visual mechanism we refer to as a “card.” Each card can support an image, several headers, and […]
Fun with Images I have been moving between research that is reading and research that is visual. I’ve found several images of the Worth Memorial location which show the site in such a way that you can compare that historical reference to its current state. This is fascinating to me […]
Crunch Time Approaches Last week was Spring Break in CUNY-land and for the most part, our team agreed to honor it as an actual break. I think of this last week as the proverbial calm before the storm that is often the reality of birthing any kind of creative product. […]
This week was research and more research. Bret made me aware that the NYPL will send books to GC students, so I made a request for a copy of the Jenkins Worth biography and the planning report that the NYC Common Council created to commemorate the memorial. It can take […]
This week I have spent most of my time researching William Jenkins Worth. I was able to find only one biography of him, “General William Jenkins Worth: Monterey’s Forgotten Hero” published in 1953, which is now out-of-print. Instead, I’ve been reading contemporary accounts of his life and death. The New […]
Our team has had several meetings where we have touched on different aspects of data management. We are using GitHUB for development, which has good version controls for the codebase. That system is self-contained and doesn’t require that we create a system from whole cloth. However, we have agreed to […]
Lisa Kofod …is a writer and producer, they are also a digital humanities student working toward their Master of Arts in the Digital Humanities at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). A life-long New Yorker, they were drawn to this project because of their love […]
