Listen as West Medford community members talk about Reverend Phillips and the congregation of Shiloh Baptist Church.
Listen to a brief history of the church and hear individuals discuss the role of Shiloh Baptist Church in the West Medford community
Here’s my introduction to the West Medford walking tour, which complements Andrea’s
Dr. Auslander’s introduction to the tour
Our class tour of the community, led by Wallace Kountze, Hilton Parham, Jr. and Marilyn Smith
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Our class is working in collaboration with the Medford Historical Society. Please see their new website:
http://medfordhistorical.org/
The West Medford Afro-American Remembrance Project has a site within the MHS site, showing work done by students at Tufts in Professor Rosalind Shaw’s Public Anthropology courses:
http://medfordhistorical.org/remembrance.php
Please also see the on line exhibition on slavery in Medford:
http://medfordhistorical.org/africatomedford.php
also developed by […]
In December 2005, Susan Winship of the Sudanese Education Fund kindly lent the Cultural Production MA program 23 paintings by Sudanese refugee artists, primarily painted by persons residing in Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya. The art emerges from a project organized by the artist Atem Aleu. Students in Anth 159a are developing an […]
In November and December 2005, students in Dr. Auslander’s course “Museums and Public Memory” (Anth 159a) at Brandeis University conducted interviews with members of the Afro-American c ommunity of West Medford, Massachusetts. These interviews were arranged in collaboration with the West Medford Afro American Remembrance Project committee, directed by Mr. Wallace Kountze. We are […]
What does one expect from a public exhibit?
Do those expectations change when the exhibit is in a space known for other things?