by Jack Slavik | Jul 29, 2022 | CURI Summer 2022, Jack Slavik
Teachers have lives outside of school? Children may not understand the extent to which teachers, like Elsie Wiggins, can be deeply involved in their community. Elsie Adele Wiggins (1896-1963) was a teacher and activist in early twentieth-century Washington, DC. As a...
by Jack Slavik | Jun 25, 2022 | CURI Summer 2022, Jack Slavik
Gladys Christine Fearing (1893-1924) was a pianist and teacher in early 20th century New Jersey and Washington, DC. Fearing was a 1911 graduate of the Washington Conservatory of Music whose life exemplifies the racial uplift ideals upon which the Conservatory was...
by Jack Slavik | Jun 23, 2022 | CURI Summer 2022, Jack Slavik
Archival research is underway, and our team has begun constructing biographies of Washington Conservatory of Music graduates. Though this is my favorite part of the project, I would not have understood the context in which they lived without reading secondary sources....
by Jack Slavik | Jun 13, 2022 | CURI Summer 2022, Jack Slavik
It’s already mid-June! Aghhh! Having lost all sense of time after nearly two weeks(?) of touring with the St. Olaf Choir, I am at long last joining my peers on the Musical Geography Project. I am still settling in my new townhouse and adjusting to the departure of...
