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Feeling for the Weak Spots: Narrative Approaches to Providence’s Past
Outside the Providence Train Station with three members of the Snowtown Project Collective, walking on asphalt where there used to be water, we discussed the challenges of telling a place’s story when much of the evidence of its existence has been scrubbed from the record. Those who fall outside of the narrative of power and…
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Landscape Narratives
READINGS John McPhee, “Travels of the Rock” in The Princeton Anthology of Writing: Favorite Pieces by the Ferris/McGraw Writers at Princeton, University (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001). Link to Article. Patricia E. Rubertone., “Lippitt Hill: Homelands of the Hill and Hollows, Unholy Water, and Traditional Knowledge” in Native Providence: Memory, Community, and Survivance in the…