About the History Harvest

This online archive sits at the intersection of several historians’ efforts, an ongoing community self-preservation effort that is centuries in the works, and a History-Harvest tradition that supports all of these practices.

As we explored the theory bhind digial public engagement, we began to engage more deeplyw ith the community’s need to own and manage their own history and we began to think more fully about how institutional support and partnership in stabilizing the content from the FB page might help support the community need to have an easy-to-use centralized platform that fed a stable archive.

The historians:

  • 1 academic historian of Black women’s history
  • 1 community historian who organized the Longtown reunion and gave permission
  • 1 community historian whose preservation efforts are visible in a very active facebook page
  • 1 community historian whose preservation efforts are visible in the practical organizing of the collection
  • 1 community historian whose work on a family history can be seen here in this History Harvest and whose work as a visually-impaired historian structures much of the accessbiility of both her work and this archive
  • 1 community historian whose work devloping a tour of Longtown gives onlien readers access to the built environment fo Longtown and greenville.

The descendants:

The History Harvest crew:

  • Jazma
  • Chavonte
  • Michelle
  • Justin
  • Kennedi
  • Victoria
  • Kalani
  • Maks
  • Lillian
  • Matt