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Keweenaw Time Travelers at the Social Sciences History Association

11/17/2022

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Several Historical Environments Spatial Analytics Lab faculty, staff, and students presented their work at the Social Science History Association meeting in Chicago this week.
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​Dr. Don Lafreniere (Project Director) began the conference as a roundtable participant with other scholars from the U.S. and U.K. discussing models for building and sustaining Historical GIS projects. He also shared the next stages of the Keweenaw Time Traveler project, highlighting our recently released mobile app. He demonstrated this by importing a map segment of Chicago that allowed participants to see the historic Palmer House (where the conference was held) just as we can see towns around the Copper Country!

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​Dr. Dan Trepal (Senior Geospatial Research Scientist) presented recent work linking people’s census records through time. This allows us to follow people as they move throughout the area and country and sets the stage for lots of future projects!
​James Juip (Senior Research Associate) participated in a roundtable discussing a variety of projects related to place and attachment. This touched on a variety of subjects, including project sustainability and how to continue public engagement after funding has ceased.
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​James was also joined remotely by Dr. Sarah Scarlett (Co-Project Director) for a presentation on education and outreach, during which they discussed how the Time Traveler has been used for K-12 education and some exciting future plans (stay tuned!).
​Timothy Stone (Senior Research Associate) presented an abridged version of his thesis which he defended two weeks ago. Here he focused on results and case studies, demonstrating how projects such as the Time Traveler allow for population-level and fined-grained analysis.
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​Ryan Williams (Geospatial Research Scientist) presented his work and partnership with Monte Consulting to bring us version 2.0 of the Explore App (i.e. the current Time Traveler Interface). He also discussed the relationship between the databases housing Time Traveler data and the public interface.
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Chassell Historic Interpretive Trail

11/15/2022

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The Keweenaw Time Traveler team is partnering with the Chassell Heritage Center to help build interactive digital interpretation for the new Chassell historic interpretive trail. The trail will run from Chassell Township Park along Pike Bay and through the former site of a lumber mill. Using maps and aerial imagery The Time Traveler will give people unique insight into how the site changed from 1893 to the present day as they travel down the new boardwalk trail. Through story points created by the Chassell Heritage Center team guests to the park will also be informed about the unique value this site has to the history of the Copper Country.  You can learn more about this amazing project by visiting the Chassell Heritage Center on Facebook, or through this excellent 'Discovering' Episode from 906 Outdoors found below. Be sure to check out this great trail and be sure to bring keweenawhistory.com along!
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Time Traveler at Hamtramck Historical Museum

11/12/2022

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​This week, Dr. Dan Trepal (Senior Geospatial Research Scientist) had the opportunity to present on work he is doing in Hamtramck, Michigan. Hamtramck is located in Wayne County and has a rich industrial and cultural history which Wayne State archaeology students have been unearthing since 2018. During his Archaeology Day presentation, Dr. Trepal discussed the deep mapping used to create the Keweenaw Time Traveler, and the vision for a similar project with Hamtramck which he is working on with Dr. Krysta Ryzewski, who is the Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Wayne State. This project will focus more on archeological data collected at Hamtramck sites while maintaining the flexibility and easy access we are proud to offer with the Keweenaw Time Traveler.
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Time Travelers at the Association for Preservation Technology

11/7/2022

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This week, Dr. John Arnold (Co-Project Director) and Dr. Don Lafreniere (Project Director) travelled to Detroit, Michigan to present at the Association for Preservation Technology’s annual conference. Dr. Arnold, who now works with the Keweenaw National Historic Park, continues to focus on ‘vernacular preservation,’ which he discussed at length in his dissertation in 2017. This means working with the community to preserve buildings and other parts of the physical landscape that aren’t necessarily known for their historic uses and may be used to this day. 
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​Dr. Arnold and Dr. Lafreniere showed many of these local buildings (such as the Copper Country Curling Club) and discussed the various levels of attention and assistance they get for preservation before introducing how projects like the Keweenaw Time Traveler can help! By having a detailed record of the built landscape, we can easily and accurately assess historic value and tell the stories of the buildings that continue to shape our communities!
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Time Traveler at the Sonderegger Symposium

11/4/2022

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​This Friday, Dr. Don Lafreniere (Project Director) presented the Keweenaw Time Traveler at Northern Michigan University (available here). NMU puts on an annual event, called the Sonderegger Symposium, which focuses on the social aspects (and challenges) of the Upper Peninsula. While there, Dr. Lafreniere discussed the creation of the Time Traveler and its importance for helping local history come to life through historical maps and data linkages. The next phase of the project, which we are incredibly excited about, involves bringing our methods and lessons learned to other communities and helping jumpstart similar projects. He was also able to demonstrate how to use the Time Traveler, with all the different types of maps and data available.
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Successful Defenses!

11/3/2022

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​Time Travelers James Juip and Timothy Stone completed successful defenses in early November.
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​James, defending his Ph.D. proposal, shared his vision for using deep maps to help generate engagement with local history. Using platforms such as the Keweenaw Time Traveler, James hopes to help communities and community members take ownership of their history and provide them with a means to preserve and share their stories and memories.

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​Timothy, defending his Master’s thesis, discussed his work with the Calumet and Laurium school records and how he used them to study local children’s environmental exposures from 1920. He presented a methodology for incorporating children’s data into an existing HSDI and argued that research on children’s exposures should focus on all activity spaces, rather than just exposures at home.

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