Eight second-year students in UNCG’s masters program in history and museum studies, received the National Council on Public History’s 2013 Graduate Student Project Award for their work on Past the Pipes: Stories of the Terra Cotta Community, an exhibition that opened in December at the Terra Cotta Museum in Greensboro. 

Thanks to D for the pointer.

More here.

UPDATE: More here. "Projects like this don’t just speak to the former residents trying to preserve their past or history junkies. It falls in the vein of accessible work that Filene pursues — making history more meaningful and less remote through community and local history, especially by working with 'living memory' and conducting oral history interviews as his students did."

Comments

[Kim]

A very interesting part of our history. Their land holdings stretched from Spring Garden/Wendover to beyond I-40.

[Eric Ginsburg]

Speaking of, I wrote about the Terra Cotta project a month ago if you're interested. http://www.yesweekly.com/triad/article-15495-unearthing-the-history-of-terra-cotta.html

[Ed Cone]

Thanks, EG, added to the post.

[michele]

Thanks for sharing this, Ed.