Join for Deconstruction Origin Stories: Part 3. This installment is a workshop in which participants will have an opportunity to examine how their community’s history is portrayed and shared through an examination of documents, maps, newspapers, and monuments. Participants are asked to do a google search of their community’s origin story to bring to the zoom workshop for discussion. Please google the questions: “what is the history of the origin and founding of [community name]?” and “what is the history of the land of [community name] before the founding and origin of the town?”
WHEN: Friday, July 25th from 2 - 3 P.M.
WHERE: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87049633281
Deconstructing Origin Stories is a series that explores how we share our community’s foundings. The series is intended to broaden the telling of history in the time of American settlement in northern Illinois to delve deeper into multiple perspectives. It will continue through 2025 and engage museum professionals in a process to revisit how we have long shared our founding stories. The first part featured historian Dr. Ann Durkin Keating, helping us to understand the complexity of relationships and land in Illinois from the time of the French and Indian War to the 1840s. The second part featured film maker Susan Kelsey as she shared a segment of her documentary Uncovering History: The Role of Billy Caldwell in Potawatomi Treaty-Making.
Note: This event is for IAM and KDRMA members.
