Month: September 2017

I know it been a while since I posted last but during that time I spent looking into the school newspaper and planning out our research plan. Erin was able to look more in depth into the Archives and public library and found some pretty awesome stuff that we will be viewing together today. Below is our research plan that I believe is realistic enough for us to accomplish. The only obstacle that we have to accomplish is the IRB process in which we are working on to complete ASAP.

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 be done first because it will be more time consuming)
September 25- Mason library archives. Digitize Equinox articles from 1991 to present

September 25/26- Keene Public Library. Sentinel articles

Find a transcript of town hall meetings

Citi IRB training should be done by the weekend of October 8th

Finish Entire IRB Process by Oct. 8th

Milestone 2: October 26
Milestone Goals: By October 26th the interviews should be completed and uploaded to the website
Interviewing students will be the easy part because we are going to interview people we know
Interviewing community members might be harder because it will involve more scheduling and taking the time to find people who will want to be interviewed.

The interview workload will be split in half. Tyler will interview around 3 students/faculty and Erin will interview 3 students/faculty. Any community member interviews can be done together

Interviews will be asked to share their experiences of either how they remembered Pumpkin Fest in the past, the riot incident, or how they’ve seen resolution come out of the conflict

One or two staff members will be asked to discuss their opinion on the subject and give their point of view
Michael Antonucci will be interviewed on his opinion on how the media reaction to the riot is reflective of the double standards

Milestone 3: November 9
Milestone Goal: tentatively by this date we will have gathered all of our information and begin to upload our findings to our wordpress site.
The structure of this website will be interactive and allow the viewer to view the Pumpkin Festival in chronological order from its inception and throughout the years.
The website will include a hub of information , where viewers can see what was going on in Keene during that years pumpkin festival.
Included in those informational post will include the findings we have gathered through the research as well as critical analysis of the conflict in its relation to the intersectionality of resolution.

Milestone 4: November 30th
MileStone Goal:  Be ready to present the wordpress website and discuss the conflict resolution of this contemporary event.
Have all the parts of the website working correctly including all videos, links and interview audios.
Prepare what key points we will focus on in the presentation

This weekend I have found some articles in the Equinox newspaper that has given me the opportunity to see in depth what the student newspaper has to offer when referring to the issues that occurred during the festival. the points that I highlighted in my map a brief visual look at where the events occurred in relation to campus and the festival. this is a first look into what happened during Pumpkin Fest 2014. During this week Erin and I will be entering in the school archives this week  and explore various newspaper articles from the creation in 1991.

The lines in the map represent the area of which the riots took place or where events of conflict were present during the riot.

During this  labor day weekend I took the time to relax as well as dig deeper into my local resources to aid with my research. I recently, got in contact with my friend who is on the Keene’s newspaper “The Equinox” and he helped me by showing the various articles on The Pumpkin Festival. I think this is a solid step in the right direction because It will help our project find the necessary perspectives. we need to gain the entire picture on what happened that weekend in Keene. I think  to understand how this event escalated to the measure it did we have to identify multiple perspectives with countless variables.

During the week I plan on going into the archives and see from newspapers and documents othe accounts and other aspects of one of Keene’s oldest traditions. I also will talk with staff, faculty and my peers  about how the College has changed from 3 years ago.