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    Local and Community History – Ten Blocks

    Resource Type: Assignment Instructor: Johnathan Thayer Title: Associate Professor Department: GSLIS Course: LBSCI 790.3. Local and Community History MethodsĀ  Description Walk or otherwise move through physical space ten blocks (or its equivalent) in any direction from wherever you call home. Take note of the component parts that make up your locality, including the weekly topics on our syllabus (nature, parks, cemeteries, burial grounds, buildings, restaurants, bars, theaters, temples, schools, and governance). Make a list of the histories of these components that you know, and a list of the histories that you wish you knew more about. Where I plan to use this resource In my LBSCI class Local and Community…