{"id":1259,"date":"2016-12-01T11:34:46","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T16:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/?page_id=1259"},"modified":"2016-12-09T14:15:41","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T19:15:41","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"idTextPanel\" class=\"jqDnR\">\n<p><em>Tracing the Midcoast\u00a0<\/em>was built by members of \u201cThe Cultural Geography of Allen Island,\u201d an American Studies course at Colby College in Fall 2016. We\u00a0explored how people have created and recreated Maine\u2019s Allen Island\u2014as a material place and an idea\u2014and how those material and cultural constructions reflect beliefs about Midcoast Maine, nature, the past, modernity, community, and the individual.<\/p>\n<p>Team members include Connor Benjamin, Namita Bhattacharya, Aidan Black, Andrew DeStaebler, Evan Dwyer, Rebecca Gray, Gabe Harrington, Lucas Hickok, Gregory Katz, Daniel Lehman, Marla Montoya, Luke Rector, and Chang Zhang. The course is taught by <a href=\"http:\/\/bdlisle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Lisle<\/a>.\u00a0Isabel Friedman \u201918 is the digital fellow for <em>Tracing the Midcoast<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The project has been supported by the expertise of many. Thanks to David Morey, Peter Ralston, and Philip Conkling for generously sharing their knowledge about the\u00a0Midcoast and Allen Island. Whitney King, Jake Ward, and Jim Baker got us back and forth from Port Clyde to the island. Cody the Dog and many nameless sheep entertained us when we were there. Mark Wardecker, Jason Parkhill, and Tim Stonesifer in Academic ITS provided technical expertise and shot spectacular drone footage. Erin Murphy in Cinema Studies has\u00a0supplied technical and aesthetic guidance. Erin Rhodes and Pat Burdick in Special Collections designed\u00a0a class research session\u00a0and hosted the project launch.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Colby&#8217;s partnership with Allen Island, see &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.colby.edu\/news\/2016\/10\/27\/maine-as-a-laboratory-new-partnerships-bring-colby-students-and-faculty-to-allen-island-herring-gut-learning-center\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maine as a Laboratory: New Partnerships Bring Colby Students and Faculty to Allen Island, Herring Gut Learning Center<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Tracing the Midcoast<\/em> is part of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/digitalmaine\/\" target=\"_blank\">Digital Maine<\/a><\/strong> network.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"idTextPanel\" class=\"jqDnR\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tracing the Midcoast\u00a0was built by members of \u201cThe Cultural Geography of Allen Island,\u201d an American Studies course at Colby College in Fall 2016. We\u00a0explored how people have created and recreated Maine\u2019s Allen Island\u2014as a material place and an idea\u2014and how those material and cultural constructions reflect beliefs about Midcoast Maine, nature, the past, modernity, community, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4379,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4379"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1259"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1390,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1259\/revisions\/1390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}