Follow our project at: wridinfrastructure.com/archaeology/... for more details on findings, reporting, and meetings.
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A City Department of Public Works press release announcing the trailer screening of the Greenlawn Cemetery excavation documentary
Details on the screenings 5/11 at the Eiteljorg at 3:30pm and 5/12 at Indiana Landmarks Center at 6:00pm
I'm excited to share what we've been working on for a year & a half: a documentary feature film about the excavation of our section of Greenlawn Cemetery. So proud of our team of archaeologists, historians, preservationists & genealogists working on the analysis of this significant historic site.
It has been an absolute honor to serve as the historian for the Rethink Coalition's SE gateway project. Thank you in particular to the Italian elders who shared so much with me. Here’s to the next steps for getting this damn thing built and reconnecting my community!
rethink65-70.org/work/southea...
Thanks to @indymonthly.bsky.social for visiting the City-County Archives and chatting about the “legal, historical, and ethical minefield” of work surrounding our Greenlawn Cemetery excavation.
www.indianapolismonthly.com/arts-and-cul...
You found it! 🤗💕
Really excited about this project - the City's response for a missing middles housing pattern book! ❤️
Pull the RFQ here: www.indy.gov/workflow/fin...
Text me when this happens and I will alert the GIS team!!
This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
A dark blue mug with an American flag reads “AMERICA 1776 – 2026”
Fairly sure it’s unintentional, but the end date on this mug being sold by the Smithsonian does make it sound a little like they’re saying America dies in 2026…
Collage of Zebrowski demolition materials
Indiana world war memorial plaza pamphlet
Lincoln Hotel ashtray
You know you’ve made it as a municipal archivist when your Xmas gifts from dad are: a collage of materials from a demolition contractor who demo’d most lost city landmarks, Indiana world war memorial plaza ephemera, and an ashtray from the Lincoln Hotel
-drafted a digitization/vendor resolution for IT board
-selected a CMS/digital collection system
-wrote a policy doc on GIS Data + Archiving
We are excited for 2026: learning our new CMS, building a humidification room to flatten drawings, and the next phase of cemetery research & engagement. ❤️
-est training video on retention, disposition, and digitization
-managed cemetery compliance for many projects, including the Greenlawn excavation that went 3 weeks shy of a full year, concluding with the excavation of 1,709 grave shafts
-created a high school internship centered on the excavation
Ledger books
Deeds
Microfilm boxes
It’s hard building a municipal archive from scratch. Despite all the obstacles, we accomplished a lot this year.
-108 reference questions answered
-40 tours for ~150 people
-8 lectures/panels for ~600 people
-340 volunteer hours
-doubled our vault and storage space
-est online presence
Icy lake
Stained glass window
Snow in park
Icy lake
Mental health break ✌️
Kind of like trying to convince decision makers over and over again not to build a stadium on top of the graves of pioneers, babies, and enslaved people
All this neighborhood advocacy work, for nothing
Mapping Inequality, the digital humanities platform for exploring redlining maps & data, launched in 2016. Never in my wildest dreams did I think they would ask me to write an essay on Indianapolis! It is an absolute honor to be included in this project:
dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/red...
View of fall landscape
View of fall landscape
Cabin sign: “teach me the unforced rhythms of grace”
In the forest
Beautiful weekend away 🧡
Today is World Day of Remembrance — a global event to remember those killed or seriously injured on our streets.
Read more about this day, and our call to action for the City of Indianapolis, at the link below.
#WDoR2025 #SafeStreetsIndy #Indianapolis #HoosierSky #VisionZero
Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
Spring mill state park
Spring mill state park garden
Spring mill state park cave
Spring mill state park close up of tavern
🍁 “I’ve got an idea. Let’s go outside.” 🍁
Thank you for always supporting us 🙏
Thank you @mirrorindy.org for featuring Deedee our reference archivist and her amazing work to identify historic glass negatives held at the Irvington Historical Society: mirrorindy.org/historic-pho...
You have until Nov 30 to see the exhibit!
Thanks IndyStar for celebrating Archives Month with local public, nonprofit, university, and governmental archives ❤️
www.indystar.com/story/opinio...
Remember, according to the Republican Justices, it's okay to gerrymander for party advantage, not racial advantage. It's an unknowable distinction, but one that allows the Republicans to okay racist gerrymandering under the guise of political gerrymandering.
The civic shame of it all
Outdoor installation
Outdoor installation
Girard poster
Girard dolls
Exhibit Columbus installations + Alexander Girard exhibit today with Dad 💯
Decorative floor tiles
Greenhouse
Courthouse ceiling
Sanctuary
A fabulous week in Fort Wayne at the statewide historic preservation conference.
Also happy to share that the City-County Archives contributed images to the book.
So proud of Cox & Cronin and can’t wait to see what they do next!
#whatanarchivistdoes