Professor Jennifer McStotts’ Blog

I’ll be the first to jump on the “blogging is easy!” train, but I’m still finding it hard to find the time for it. Twice a week was my goal, and so far I’m hitting just about weekly instead. Alas…

Today’s post is about some links that will be of interest to my senior seminar students as well as upcoming events in our programs. First the links - want to know more about…
The Redcoat Exeter Interpretation Program? http://www.exeter.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=668
The Bayeux Tapestry? http://www.bayeuxtapestry.org.uk/
Or the Ename Charter on Interpretation? http://enamecharter.org/ - this isn’t something we’ve talked about much, but it will come up later. This is a proposed international charter on interpretation standards - yet another framework for you to drawn on with your projects.

And now for Announcements of interest!
Sept 17th around 6 p.m. - Travel Presentations in 12 Bull followed by food! Come to learn more about the ARTH and HPCP majors.
Sept 20th at 7 p.m. in Simons 309 - Dr. Liebhart’s lecture on the oldest wooden building.
Sept 21st around 5 p.m. in 12 Bull - HPCP Happy Hour.

Hello again!
Today is the day for new experiments. I’ve put some slides into a show for you to view and think on Boston (as we discussed in intro on Friday). For those in Urban Planning and other visitors, I hope this is an interesting series of maps for you to look at. The context of our discussion was the birth of the preservation movement in Boston, including the effects of the fire (1872) and the concepts of visual values, cityscape, and vista.
I’ll be posting more slide shows in the future if this works well!

[slideshare id=105585&doc=boston-maps1593&w=425]
The full sized version is here - http://www.slideshare.net/jcmcstotts/boston-maps.

Hope you’re having a great weekend!

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As always, it just takes one student asking a good question to get me thinking. A recent senior seminar student asked for more information about an offhand description of violence against the “Cenotaph at Whitehall.” In class, I said I believed that cenotaphs were generally funerary monuments, which turns out to not be the best description. A cenotaph is actually an “empty grave” - a monument or memorial - and the Cenotaph at Whitehall is a British memorial associated with Remembrance Day and therefore Armistice Day. There are some nice explanations of cenotaphs online, and this is the official site of Whitehall.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/remembrance/history/cenotaph.shtml
It’s worth noting that the vandalism Peter Howard was referring to was likely from the attacks in 2000 in the “anti-capitalist” protests in Whitehall.
Have a great labor day weekend - stay dry!