Farewell, For Now

If there was only one thing I could take away from this interim, it would be a whole lot of gratitude for being only a first year student.  This project on H.T. Burleigh, besides all the valuable information I’ve learned on early American music and composers, besides...

It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday

While this phrase is the title to a classic Boyz II Men song, it doubles for my feelings on the phase of research I just finished ⎯ looking at the racial makeup of various places Burleigh performed or spoke at. At first, I was excited to add this element to our data...

Shoveling in a Blizzard

As our research project on H.T. Burleigh is beginning to come to a close, we’ve been assigned specialization tasks to divvy up the final work that has to be done in order to get the maps finished.  Alongside Ian, I’ve been given the role of a data...