All Together Here: Discovery and Remembrance

DIGITAL EXHIBITION

A version of the All Together Here digital exhibit also appears on the Smithsonian Learning Lab.

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A more in depth look at the project is available in the All Together Here: Digital Exhibition page. In 2021, the Parks and Recreation Department was awarded a Digital Humanities Advancement Grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Subject matter experts participated in community engagement meetings with descendants in 2022 and made recommendations for building a 3D digital model of the cemetery that aligns with a geospatial database of records.

The Chapel has been reimagined as a cultural resource center, publishing digital exhibitions quarterly. Exhibits include digital maps, audio, photo, video, biographies, legacies and more on Oakwood Cemetery’s “Residents”.

I copy edited this digital exhibit and was a contributing grant writer to the reapplication of said grant.

EVENT

• Copy Editor, Event Staff

After discovery, an ongoing community engagement process was initiated. Careful exhumation of these rediscovered individuals proceeded in close consultation with the Texas Historical Commission, under an Antiquities Permit that the THC issued. The individuals were transferred to bio-archaeologists at Texas State University. A separate archaeological team analyzed the artifacts associated with the chapel and burials.

The feedback collected from the community engagement process in 2017 was that reinterment of every individual back into Oakwood Cemetery was the most desirable outcome. In November of 2021, all sets of remains and artifacts were reinterred along the West side of the Chapel and a public memorial was held. A monument was installed in 2023, and a second public memorial and monument dedication was held.

I copy edited all materials on the Symposium site, and worked as event staff during the monument dedication.