Share Memories
Share memories
A living public history project such as this needs nourishment! It is only as effective as its ability to engage with those of you who have memories, stories, photographs to share. If people’s stories of Uptown teach us anything at all, it is that “submerged traditions” of narrativizing everyday stories that are not captured by History (with a capital H) always exist. It is merely a matter of tapping into and elevating them. James Baldwin once said, “You’ve got to tell the world how to treat you. If the world tells you how you are going to be treated, you are in trouble.” Stories and memories of Uptown’s history that are told from the perspective of the people of Uptown are a key part of this narrative. They capture stories of gentrification and displacement but not only that; they capture active place-making, resilience, and solidarity, every day, in ways big and small. We hope this site and the various projects embedded in it provide one small window to amplify this and capture people’s stories of Uptown: marking less-marked spaces and sharing less-told stories about this neighborhood, and through this, rewriting often-told histories… from the margins. To realize this goal, we would love to hear your stories and memories. Please share them with us!
For those of you who lived and/or worked in Uptown, for researchers, artists, students, who are working on Uptown, and for anyone who has any connection - present or past - with Uptown, we would love to hear your stories! Please share your stories here and we will feature them on this site, and add them to the collective memory archive of Uptown that we are collecting here.
If you have - or had - any connection with Uptown and have photographs to share - of the streets, buildings, protests, public artworks, celebrations, a memory, people of Uptown - please do share them with us! We will digitally scan, tag, and then make them publicly available on this site.
