Lab Museum Design & Interpretation

Sarah, Samantha and Chastity,

Here are the potential topics, with a list of resources, for your group:

1. The Social History of Germanna: An examination of the social dynamics of the historical formation of Germanna -including an examination of the ethnic and racial dynamics. Resources: There is a taped lecture of Ann L. Miller delivering a talk in 2005 on the Social History of Germanna (I have a copy of this I can lend you).  She would be a key resource for this line of investigation if you should choose to pursue this topic.  John Fontaine's Journal would also be key as would Spotswood's papers.
2. An overview of the archaeological work done at Germanna's Enchanted Castle:   This topic is much more focused and many of the resources are in-house.
   Resources: Doug Sanford has  a number of images from the dig, and can be  considered a primary resource for information, interviews, etc. Kerri Barile has  written her dissertation on this topic and has also lectured about this work recently (I also have a copy of this talk). Additionally, she is currently working on an inventory of the artefacts found during this excavation.
3. Alexander Spotswood:  A closer look at the man who formed Germanna. Resources: As with the archaeology topic, there are a number of resources available on Spotswood that may make this choice more palatable than the social history, which is relatively unchartered territory for many of the facts are still a bit vague and inconclusive.