UGA CED Cultural Landscape Laboratory

We are just about a week away from the autumnal equinox, though the weather here has already been flirting with cooler temperatures for nearly a month. There is... something absolutely wondrous about the fall. With the changing of the seasons comes change of a different sort. While some of us remember September being the harbinger of homework and pop quizzes, kids nowadays are returning to school as early as the first of August (in one Georgia county, students actually reported on July 31st!). [ 304 more words ] https://www.foxfire.org/fall-intern-audrey-thomas/

Check out this great article about CED Associate Professor Cari Goetcheus!

Inspire Preservation: Daniel Weldon The summer of 2014, I accepted a NCPE internship with the Midwest Regional Office of the National Park Service and changed m...y perspective on cultural landscapes. Fresh out of grad school at the University of Georgia, I thought let’s try Omaha. Until that time, all of my landscape preservation practice involved either Deep South designed and agricultural landscapes, or historic Mid Atlantic tobacco plantations. That summer I was fortunate to work with Julie McGilvary on a project to document the historic road network of Badlands National Park. The scale and scope was so much bigger than what I was accustomed to tackling. The park is a mixture of sweeping natural beauty formed over millennia and layers of more recent human settlement. The common narrative or thread physically running through the cultural landscape is an extensive road network linked to the central tour road. Over the course of one week, we documented overlooks, road traces, Mission 66-era visitor infrastructure, and historic motor courts in the park, features that impact the way you the viewer moves through the landscape. I left the project reevaluating the importance of circulation systems and the stories these features can tell about land use. Discover Badlands National Park: https://www.nps.gov/badl/index.htm Want to know more about cultural landscape preservation? http://go.nps.gov/a5lbkj #NPSCareers #CulturalLandscapes #Preservation

Assistant Professor Scott Nesbit discusses his work in the digital humanities in Columns article. "In the digital humanities, we make lots of lists," Nesbit sa...id. "We look for patterns, trends and anomalies that might tell us something that isn't visible in conventional primary resources." http://www.columns.uga.edu//digital-humanities-prof-uses-/

A collection of images of recent student engagement with units of the National Park Service.