{"id":115,"date":"2011-06-20T08:39:07","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T15:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amstcommunitystudies.org\/?p=115"},"modified":"2011-06-20T08:39:07","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T15:39:07","slug":"bridging-baybrook-preserving-the-past-developing-the-future-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amstcommunitystudies.org\/?p=115","title":{"rendered":"Bridging Baybrook: Preserving the Past, Developing the Future (2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u201cAmerican Studies 422: Preserving Places, Making Spaces in Baltimore\u201d is an applied research course in the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC).\u00a0 During the spring 2011 semester, students worked with Professor Nicole King to explore the important role of historic places in sustaining vibrant urban culture.\u00a0 After readings on public history projects such as The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History<\/em> and The Baltimore Book: New Views of Local History<\/em>, students partner with a local non-profit community organization to develop an innovative preservation and public history project on overlooked <\/em>people and places in Baltimore.\u00a0 During the spring 2011 semester, students worked on the Greater Baybrook area in South Baltimore.<\/p>\n

A Faculty Innovation Grant funded by the Kauffman Foundation through the Alex. Brown Center for Entrepreneurship at UMBC provided the seed money for this course.\u00a0 The course teaches students about social entrepreneurship, which balances creating social good with making a profit to sustain the future.\u00a0 The $1,500 Faculty Innovation Grant provides the funds for the event and any profits over the original $1,500 are donated to a non-profit organization based in Baltimore.\u00a0 All of the profits from the spring 2011 course were donated to the Baybrook Coalition, a 501c(3) non-profit organization with the goal of improving the Greater Brooklyn area.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Greater Baybrook is comprised of the industrial communities of Brooklyn, Curtis Bay, Fairfield, Hawkin\u2019s Point, Masonville, and Wagner\u2019s Point.\u00a0 On May 14, 2011 the students hosted an event\u2014Bridging Baybrook: Preserving the Past, Developing the Future\u2014that drew over one hundred people to the Polish Home Hall, a historic community building owned by the Baybrook Coalition.\u00a0 The event was a community celebration incorporating public history programming, art, music, food, and events for children.\u00a0 Tickets were sold for $5 to community residents and $15 for visitors.\u00a0 The ticket included a program of historical essays on the various neighborhoods in Greater Baybrook prepared by Professor King and the students and access to all the food, entertainment, and events throughout the day (2-6pm).<\/p>\n

The first floor was decorated in spring colors and had a history table, with materials including history panels the students designed, and a large map where community members could discuss the important places in the community.\u00a0 The history table also sold t-shirts and buttons the students designed. A delicious Barbeque lunch with all the fixings was provided with hot dogs and macaroni and cheese for children.\u00a0 There was also a kids\u2019 station outside where young visitors could build greenhouses, paint rocks, or play horseshoes.\u00a0 Children twelve and under (accompanied by an adult) were provided free access to the event.\u00a0 Students in the course worked with local students (from both Curtis Bay Elementary and Chesapeake Center for Youth Development) over the previous month in making art that represented place in their community.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The art was featured on the second floor as part of a silent auction where the artists received half of the profits and half went to the community.\u00a0 The second floor also had a stage where various musical acts performed.\u00a0 By holding this event, the students commemorated a sense of place in the community and offered a space to gather, reflect, and make new memories.\u00a0 During the event Carol Eshelman, executive director of the Baybrook Coalition for the past decade, was honored upon her retirement.\u00a0 On the day of the event, the students raised $1,200.\u00a0 After replenishing the $1,500 seed money for the course, the students donated $400 to the Baybrook Coalition and provided $70 to local students for their part of the proceeds from their art.<\/p>\n

The course and the event were great successes.\u00a0 Professor Nicole King and Steve Bradley (Associate Professor in Visual Arts) were awarded an IRC\/CAHSS Summer Faculty Residency for 2011 for an online public history mapping project in the Greater Baybrook community.\u00a0 They will work with Dan Bailey, Lee Boot, Eric Smallwood, and Abbey Salvo to launch a prototype of the Mapping Baybrook Project over the summer\/fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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