Due: October 1 Monday, 5 pm to be posted on the wiki.
Description
This is a small writing project about a place of healing of your choice in the New England area. Some sites are suggested below but you are welcome to do your own research to find a fairly unknown place of healing in the New England area. The idea is for you to experience the place on your own and describe your impressions using the terms and concepts we are covering in class. It would be especially useful if you do some preliminary research about the place you are writing on (archival or library research) and speak to some of its users to find out about the cultural significance of the place, stories associated with it, and the like.
The product should be a 1500-2000 essay accompanied by visual material that can be included on a wiki posting, such as photographs, videos, drawings, field sketches and the like. Creative forms of writing is encouraged. Your essay will be posted on this page by October 1, Monday 5 pm. Please include a small bibliography or list of works cited at the end of your essay. Please follow the format that is used in this wiki.
Some suggested sites:
- Campus of the Butler Hospital for the Insane
- Mashapaug Pond
- Simmons, William; 2010. “
The Continuous Presence of Native People at Mashapaug Pond” Transcribed from a talk given at The Tomaquag Indian Memorial Museum. Handout.
- Simmons, William; 2010. “
Examples of short wiki articles by Omur:
- The Leech Pond at Kerkenes Dağ- published on Archaeolog, April 30, 2009.
- Mapping sitting: datable structures, state imagination and the subordinated body published on Archaeolog, October 2, 2007.
Essays
Joshua Biber - An echo chamber
Heeju Choi - Saving Providence: Providence River Relocation Project and its Healing Impacts on Providence
Jess Colmenares - Sedona, Arizona: A Place of Spiritual Awakening
John Goncalves - Bradley Hospital: A Place of Security and Healing
Jackie Harris - The Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette: Evolution of a Site in Attleboro, Massachusetts
Sam Kase - Attleboro Springs: A Place of Healing
Annabel Ruddle - Nantasket Beach
Alexandra Salinas - Chimayó: A place of healing and miracles
