{"id":4636,"date":"2012-08-03T19:59:57","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T19:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/?p=4636"},"modified":"2012-08-06T16:41:55","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T16:41:55","slug":"wgs-students-launch-granny-d-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/2012\/08\/03\/wgs-students-launch-granny-d-project\/","title":{"rendered":"WGS Students Launch Granny D Project"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From the 2007 oil painting, Portrait of Granny D, by Sissi Shattuck.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the spring 2012 semester, 11 students in Assistant Professor Patricia Pedroza’s<\/strong> Women’s and Gender capstone course<\/a>, which explores the question, “What is activism?” launched a project to explore local social activist Granny D’s work and legacy. Their basic intention was to gather a group of people together whose discussion would generate several perspectives on one topic\u2014in this case, Granny D. The students collected oral histories from people who knew the iconic activist, and videotaped many of them. Once those video interviews are edited, they will be available on the project’s website, Catching up with Granny D<\/a>.
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\nThe capstone class was also intended to explore concepts of gender and politics, Dr. Pedroza explained, and “why people get involved in civic engagement \u2026 specifically how we may motivate our undergraduate students to get involved.”<\/p>\n

One of the capstone students, Hannah Walker<\/strong>, did a reading from one of Granny D’s books at a book signing in Keene with Granny D’s co-author, May Dennis Burke. “It was a great experience, and I got in contact with some interesting social activists in the Keene area,” Hannah remembered. “The cross-generational connections I made were probably the best part of it because those people are very determined to see their message continued through younger people. Although the audience we read for was small in Keene, at the Peterborough location there were quite a few people who were either friends of Granny D or believed\u00a0in her message.”<\/p>\n

The Granny D Project has special resonance on campus, since the Mason Library holds the activist’s archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the spring 2012 semester, 11 students in Assistant Professor Patricia Pedroza’s Women’s and Gender capstone course, which explores the question, “What is activism?” launched a project to explore local social activist Granny D’s work and legacy. Their basic intention was to gather a group of people together whose discussion would generate several perspectives on … Continue reading WGS Students Launch Granny D Project<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":4637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[454],"class_list":["post-4636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4636"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4642,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636\/revisions\/4642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}