Well the time has come and it’s finally over. This class has been such a challenge but ended with such a rewarding product. My American Studies adviser nominated me and registered me for this class with little description about what it was and what I would be doing. The fear of having to video conferencing […]
Milestone 3
Milestone 3: November 9 The semester has been really flying by. Especially now that the excitement of October and Halloween is gone. But me and Tyler are making a lot of progress on our word press sites and have steered the project in a direction that works for our goals and time availability. There were […]
Pumpkin Fest Weekend
Last weekend there was a large amount of pressure placed on Keene State College. News stations interviewed students walking to class about the upcoming festival and what students thought of the “no guest rule”. After all the rules and threats had been placed most people I knew didn’t want to celebrate Halloween at all because […]
Milestone 2
The original goal for our MileStone 2 was to have all interviews completed. The whole interview process had been a road block throughout the semester. It wasn’t the fault of our school but the idea of the long proccess seemed to distract us from our other research so I have been focusing more on archival […]
Milestone 1
I wouldn’t say Milestone One is not a complete success but defiantly isn’t a failure either. At this moment we don’t have all the newspaper articles digitized and on the website but I do have more than half of the years on my google drive and in the process of uploading them to a page […]
First Week of October
Half Way Point As we approach the midterm point of the semester I have mixed feelings about the progress of our project. I think that the project will defiantly all come together but the interview half of the project has been rough. I think instead of getting distracted by the road blocks I am focusing […]
Town Library Archive: 10/3/17
Yesterday I went to the Keene Public library to look for newspaper articles from the regional newspaper, the Keene Sentinel. The technology they had was actually pretty inconvenient and made looking through the newspapers a very long process. They had all the papers on microfilm so I had to feed the film through a projector […]
Research Timeline
Research Timeline MileStone One: October 12 Milestone Goals: By October 12th the newspaper and online article collection should be complete. This includes, Keene Equinox articles digitized, Keene Sentinel articles, Youtube news clips, News articles from various perspectives and any town hall transcripts. Also photographs of downtown Keene should be taken (Newspaper archive collecting should […]
Archive Success
Today I went to the archives in my school’s library. This was the real first time I took a few hours to sit down and look at newspapers. I started with the first year of the festival in 1991 and looked at the October 30th edition of each year up to 2003. I really liked […]
Project Proposal
Erin Lynch and Tyler Harrington Conflict in America 15 September 2017 Overcoming Pumpkin Fest Introduction Keene New Hampshire is a typical northern New England town. With a white congregational church at the head of downtown. Old mills and factories scattered around the town it’s the perfect example of a blue collar New England. Like […]