On the pedal today its a roundtable conversation. Beccah, colleen, marcia weinstein, megan spring gate. The way this is want to go is we will give you a little context about the womens history work happening at the National Level. Then we will have a roundtable discussion about how the messages came to be so you can take that practice back to your community for 2020 to build into your communities. That is the intro. I am the associate director for publications and program at the National Trust for Historic Preservation. I help build the Digital Content for preservation leadership forum. I spent a lot of time thinking about how we can tell the full American History for underrepresented communities across the United States. Im a public historian by training and Historic Preservation by way of being at the trust for 13 years. I believe they work handinhand. I thought i would start by telling a few of the things we have been doing at the National Trust over the years for women to history.
From trimble, inc. , who came along to document brand pop plae the Brandon Plantation with laser scans. Were here to do laser scans and documentation of a slave house that is here. This is part of an independent project that i am doing thats called saving slave houses, which is a data base of all the known slave houses in the united states. Its to act as a Central Depository of information and documentation of slave houses in the united states. And i have partnered with trimble which is the company that makes the survey equipment that i use to do kind of the highest level of documentation that is available to us today which is 3d laser scanning. Important to do this because, one, documentation is a type of preservation. You know, slave houses are buildings that are disappearing from the landscape. And so by documenting them, thats one way of preserving them. Documenting them and through my data base is also a way to share information and get it out there and learn from them. This is a
Brandon plantation and learn about her saving slave houses project. She is joined by several archaeologists and preservationists and a team from trimble inc. Who came along to document the plantation with a series of 3d laser scans. We are here to do laser scanning and documentation of a slave house that is here. This is part of an independent project that i am doing that is called saving slave houses, which is a data base of all the known slave houses in the united states. It acts as a central repository of information and documentation of slave houses in the united states. I have partnered with trimble, the company that makes the survey equipment i use, to do kind of the highest level documentation that is available to us today, which is 3d laser scanning. Its important to do this because, one, documentation is a type of preservation. Slave houses are buildings that are disappearing from the landscape. So by documenting them thats one way of preserving them. Documenting them and thro
I want to thank them. [applause] thank you. , americank artifacts visits museums and historic basis. In southcentral virginia, near lynchburg, green hill was a plantation operated by a slave owner. We visited it with jobie hill and a team of preservationists. They documented several buildings associated with slavery. She was introducing the team to green hill when we arrived. This program is about 50 minutes. Ok. Goodness. [dog barking] here are the Auction Blocks. That is the brick dependency. That is a duck house. This is the wash house. This one has a neat feature on the backside. It has a drain in the wall where they would yes, dump the water out. This is the slave house. My name is jobie hill. We are at green hill plantation. It is in campbell county, virginia. m here with a company they are here for me for my independent project called saving slave houses, which is doing documentation of all the known slave houses in the United States. When i was in school, for my masters thesis,
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