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Caring for Country: Aboriginal Australia

A visit to Australia prompts reflections on the ways in which Indigenous knowledge(s) and presence on the land is acknowledged (or not) in different settler-colonial societies, including the United States.

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National Trust for Historic Preservation: A Tale of Two Sessions

Large landscapes. Living Landscapes. Cultural Landscapes – what a difference a few words can make! Earlier this month, a pair of well-received sessions at the National Trust for Historic Preservation Annual Meeting in Spokane, Washington highlighted the challenges associated with defining these terms. The two back-to-back panels, which both tackled landscape scale issues, drew very different responses from the audience – a testament to how exciting, yet also contested, these ideas remain.

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Pot from the Washington Boro site. Photo Courtesy State Musem of Pennsylvania.

The Lower Susquehanna: A Landscape of Loss?

How are significant large landscapes eroded away? It usually does not happen overnight – the landscape character and heritage are lost acre by acre. But of some these losses are just more painful than others. Consider a recent example in the Lower Susquehanna Valley.

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Caring for Country: Aboriginal Australia

A visit to Australia prompts reflections on the ways in which Indigenous knowledge(s) and presence on the land is acknowledged (or not) in different settler-colonial societies, including the United States.

Read More »

National Trust for Historic Preservation: A Tale of Two Sessions

Large landscapes. Living Landscapes. Cultural Landscapes – what a difference a few words can make! Earlier this month, a pair of well-received sessions at the National Trust for Historic Preservation Annual Meeting in Spokane, Washington highlighted the challenges associated with defining these terms. The two back-to-back panels, which both tackled landscape scale issues, drew very different responses from the audience – a testament to how exciting, yet also contested, these ideas remain.

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Pot from the Washington Boro site. Photo Courtesy State Musem of Pennsylvania.

The Lower Susquehanna: A Landscape of Loss?

How are significant large landscapes eroded away? It usually does not happen overnight – the landscape character and heritage are lost acre by acre. But of some these losses are just more painful than others. Consider a recent example in the Lower Susquehanna Valley.

Read More »