This past May, I joined a team led by Dr. Pettegrew to travel across the Atlantic Ocean to the magnificent country of Greece. Our main goal was to use sources related to Samuel Gridley Howe and available maps to try and locate the Washingtonia colony of 1829. Our team comprised some Messiah University History students, … Continue reading Finding Washingtonia, a Greek Refugee Colony
Image Credit: Aidan Hubley For May Term 2023, I joined a team of professors and students from Messiah University and Harrisburg University of Science and Technology and traveled to Greece. While we were there, we expected to gain exposure to a few archaeology skills, such as drone surveying, photogrammetry, and artifact illustration. Our focus was … Continue reading Digitizing Washingtonia: Telling the Story of the “American” Colony in Greece
It has been a long time since our last update on the work of the Digital Harrisburg Initiative, so long that visitors may have concluded this is a dead project. Our work in fact has continued on a number of fronts and has continued to expand in ways we could not have anticipated when we initiated these projects in … Continue reading Digital Harrisburg: Winter 2017 Update
The Digital Harrisburg Working Group has made major strides in the last six weeks in entering, publicizing, and standardizing data related to the City Social Project. We have had major success especially in our ability to visualize data in GIS. At some point soon, we’ll give a general update of all the recent activities related … Continue reading The First Greeks of Harrisburg
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