Creating Memories in Community
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Stephen P. Hanna is a professor of Geography at the University of Mary Washington specializing in commemorative landscapes and cartography. His recent efforts to help communities map their stories into public space include Fredericksburg's Civil Rights Trail.
Amy E. Potter is a professor of Geography at Georgia Southern University specializing in heritage tourism, memory, affect, and cultural landscapes. She is lead author of Remembering Enslavement: Reassembling the Southern Plantation (2022), an NSF-funded researcher, and co-creator of the Tybee Island Black History Trail.
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Introduction 1. The Power of Place: Psychology, Geography, and Community Memory in Ireland's Magdalene Laundries 2. Building A Fire: The Geographies of Community Geography 3. Mapping as Black Memory-Work: Toward a Restorative Cartography of Urban Renewal/Removal in Knoxville, Tennessee 4. The Tybee Island, Georgia Black History Trail: A Community Approach to Black Geographies 5. Do No Harm: How Fredericksburg's Civil Rights Trail Emerged Through Collaboration and Care
