episode 8 - "Fluctuat nec mergitur" - Paris is battered by the waves, but it does not sink4/22/2019
Seniors Traci Henning-Kolberg and, new host, Laurel Shriner have a heartfelt discussion about the fire that ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral on April 15, 2019. We begin the episode with the last choir music recorded in Notre Dame Cathedral before the fire, and end with the French national anthem, the Marseillaise. Our hearts are with France as they grieve for their sacred monument.
We also take a few minutes at the beginning of the episode to introduce Laurel Shriner as the new co-host of the podcast before sharing our reactions to finding out about the fire and our hopes for the future of the cathedral.
A special thank you to Dr. Deborah Bauer and Dr. Suzanne LaVere of the Purdue University Fort Wayne's History Department and Julie Donnell, French Professor at PFW, for taking the time to share your experiences of living in Paris and what the cathedral means to you.
You can learn more about Purdue University Fort Wayne's Public History program, here. If you have any questions on the program, feel free to send an email to [email protected]. We are still new at this and learning as we go. Any questions, comments, suggestions are welcome! Email Producer and Host, Traci Henning-Kolberg or Editor and Host Hannah Smith.
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"Rowdy history majors" feels like it could be a bit of an oxymoron, however, that is exactly what this recording captures. Students from Dr. Deborah Bauer’s course, Louis XIV through The French Revolution, sit down and discuss Reacting to the Past: Rousseau, Burke, and Revolution in France 1791, a game that allowed students to recreate the National Assembly of France, from July of 1791 to late 1792. For such a serious topic there is so much laughter. We hope you enjoy this raucous, unscripted, occasionally mildly profane romp through the reaction of these students to learning history in a new and interactive way. Students who participated in the roundtable discussion and the members of the National Assembly they represented:
Madison Felts - Louis XVI Lexy Lowen - Marquis de Lafayatte Jaden Peffley - Francois Buzot Hannah Smith - Jean-Sylvain Bailly Traci Henning-Kolberg - Jean-Sifrein Maury Jordan Mazurek - Etta Palm Ryley Deputy - Georges Danton Thank you to the students who participated in this recording and who put their time, energy and passion into being their delegate during the game. This was an amazing opportunity for so many of us. And we can't forget to say a huge thank you to the many outstanding students who added their enthusiastic engagement to this project in and out of the classroom. Highlight of a really good recording? Madison Felts' statement at the end of the discussion, “If this is what public history is, I think that’s what I want to do with my History degree.” Yes! You can learn more about Purdue University Fort Wayne's Public History program, here. If you have any questions on the program, feel free to send an email to [email protected]. We are still new at this and learning as we go. Any questions, comments, suggestions are welcome! Email Producer and Host, Traci Henning-Kolberg or Editor and Host Hannah Smith. Hannah and Traci get a chance to interview IPFW Alum Jake Klinger about his job at Gaither Plantation in Georgia. Below are photos Mr. Klinger was kind enough to share along with his description of each group of photos. Special thanks to Dr. Suzanne LaVere for getting us in touch with him. "The first few pictures are inside the actual plantation house. The music room, the parlor, the staircase, and the hallway. These places would have been busy throughout the day with the family and the house slaves. Then there is the outside of the house, and the original log smoke house that was built in 1840, ten years before the big house. The picture after that is of a pecan tree that is what we call a witness tree. It has the low hanging branches that you can see. It was here during the time that it was a slave plantation. If you have seen the Conjuring movies, remember this tree because it will be in the Conjuring 3 which is going to be filmed here this summer. Very appropriate place for that film if you ask me." "The next set of photos are of the Dennard Cabin which was built in 1830, and moved to this site in 1996. The Dolly Parton films were shot here and there is a disgusting add on prop that was added to the back end of the house that I want to have removed this fall. Being a historian, I can not abide this heresy. I found farm tools and other implements on the property and brought them here. These are the scythes, two man saw, traps, and a garden clod breaker. I hung birdhouse gourds here to dry and they will be hung in the area around the house. The garden is planted with corn, beans, squash, and gourds. Next to the cabin there is a small garden with blueberry bushes. There is also an outhouse, chicken coop, wagon barn, and a wagon. If you zoom into the wagon you can see some of the fake snow used in the Dolly Parton films still there.
Then there is a period barn with old farming implements like plows and such, and we also have a cotton gin which was very important for a plantation to have. Next to that is a fool shed, and a mule barn. Off by itself is a blacksmith shop which was important for any working farm back then, especially for one the size of Gaithers Plantation. There is also a syrup mill and I have that in use for keeping firewood dry. Then there is a photo of an original road that is on the property, the same in which Union soldiers marched when they raided the farm. If a slave was caught walking this road without a written pass from his or her master, they were in trouble. From there I took pictures of what we call the Gaithers Village. The large white church was built in 1820, and moved here in 2002 from the town of Social Circle which is in Newton county. There are also pictures of the Nixon cabin with a split rail fence that I built along with a outdoor cooking area. The cabin was built out of planks, and constructed in 1870. Then the building that looks like a schoolhouse is actually a general store that was built in 1900. This building was in both of the Dolly Parton films and the Vampire diaries which was also filmed in the big house, and in the yard of the log cabin. The church was the set of the dolly movies too as well as the Sleepy Hollow series. I built all of the log fences and the well in these pics." We encourage you to check out Gaither Plantation's website for more photos and information not included in the show as well as the website for the Atlanta History Center. If you want to get in touch with Hannah or Traci with suggestions for future shows, you can send them an email. They are always on the look out for ideas and comments that will help improve the podcast. Click here for more information about the Public History program offered through Purdue Fort Wayne. For questions regarding the program, send an email to [email protected]. |
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