From the Fragments: Places and People in Colonized New England

FAIN: BH-301292-24

University of New Hampshire (Durham, NH 03824-2620)
Meghan Howey (Project Director: February 2024 to present)
Alexandra Martin (Co Project Director: August 2024 to present)

A residential program for 72 K-12 educators that would take an interdisciplinary approach to studying colonial and ecological history in the Great Bay Estuary.

In 2025, we will host 72 K–12 educators for a residential workshop, From the Fragments: Places and People in Colonized New England, which we first ran in 2023. Our primary site will be what is known as the Great Bay Estuary, a distinctive ecosystem that formed an important English colonial frontier in the 17th century and has been occupied for millennia by Abenaki/Penacook peoples, who know it as P8bagok. Each of the first four days will consider, in depth, the lives of a different population experiencing global colonialism, placing the experiences of Native Americans and African Americans alongside narratives of what would eventually become the white majority, with a final day for curriculum building. We will include background reading and lectures, but place-based encounters will be at the heart of the workshops.