This week was a big milestone for us. We agreed that April 15 was our deadline to finish our research. When we set this deadline it felt like we had all the time in the world to leisurely research our locations. Now that we’ve reached it, it doesn’t feel like […]
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I finally found time this past weekend to visit my cemetery location in person. Even before the pandemic I never spent that much time downtown, but I have visited City Hall Park numerous times since moving here (13 years ago). What struck me most was how little I had paid […]
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. […]
Last week was spring break, and as much as possible, I gave myself permission to step away from the Mapping Cemeteries project. I’m not sure how much I was able to enjoy my break from the project as I spent a lot of that time overthinking all of the work […]
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 […]
Another week has passed! It’s surreal how rapidly this semester is flying by as well as how the initial idea for Mapping Cemeteries has sprouted into an actual project that is developing more and more as the team is performing their own individual research and adding it into our group spreadsheet. […]
This is the first week I think I’ve felt more excited than overwhelmed by the project. I made time to get lost in research, and I learned so many fascinating (read: horrible) things. After class last week, I decided to poke around the New York Public Library’s digital archives and […]
