The Great Task Remaining Before Us: Why Gettysburg Performs
Project Owner
Gauri Mangala
Project Summary
My project centers around the town of Gettysburg’s involvement in performance as a means of storytelling. Starting from the Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg has remained strong in its cultural roots as a historic landmark.
My research question: How has Lincoln’s call to action to remember what happened on the battlefield affected the way the people of Gettysburg remember history and tell stories?
In 8 weeks, I hope to have a specific understanding of the development of performance in Gettysburg College and a general understanding of the development of performance in the town of Gettysburg.
I believe my audience will most likely be people involved with the town of Gettysburg, either as residents, or regular tourists.
Deliverables
Photos/Videos/Audios of performances
Oral Histories
College History Books
Video interviews
Theory books on performance and the Gettysburg Address
TimelineJS
StoryMapJS
WordPress? Omeka? Who knows?
Timeline
Week 1: preliminary college research
Week 2: plan interviews, finish basic college research, choose digital tools
Week 3: preliminary town research, adapt college research into embedded tools
Week 4: finish basic college research, finish digitization
Week 5: finish interviews (except for special circumstances), create all pages and embed college research
Week 6: adapt town research and publish to website, edit film
Week 7: KEEP BLANK FOR PANIC ROOM
Week 8: practice practice practice, and edit website
End of Life/Future Plans
As I am only going into my sophomore year of college, my ultimate goal would be to continue this research. The more that I do this, I realize that maybe that will transfer itself into getting involved in Special Collections and continuing to archive performance materials and move them to my website, but in one way or another I want to continue this for as long as I am involved with Gettysburg.
