Riverhill is a consulting firm that develops historical exhibition, interpretive plans for historic houses, and strategic plans for museums, historical societies, and heritage areas.
It also found money to spend on consultants, hiring the Boston firm TDC to "facilitate the master planning process" and Experience Design, from Rhode Island, to start drawing up an "interpretive plan" for the museum.
Before any changes are instituted, city officials, along with members of the General Land Office, must update the "interpretive plan" for Alamo Plaza, which sets the tone for activities taking place there, and gather feedback from focus groups.
Last week, a group from the Beczak Environmental Education Center in Yonkers was taken there by Erin Copeland, an Americorps volunteer who is developing interpretive plans for the 556-acre island, parts of which have been a wildlife refuge since the 1930's.
In August, the two groups received a $9,000 grant from the Connecticut Humanities Council to develop what Mr. McEachern calls "an interpretive plan for the birthplace" and in September, 15 people representing a variety of disciplines such as history and landscape architecture came up with a proposal.
Using the Duke campus and the city of Durham, the team investigated how we can incorporate difficult stories of slavery, segregation and inequality into new memory sites and interpretive plans.
The team also contributed to an interpretive plan for Pauli Murray's childhood home in Durham's West End and hosted the Dangerous Memories speaker series addressing the challenges of dealing with difficult or hidden histories on American university campuses.
Team members integrated the digital map and story bank into a draft proposal on how to expand and create new sites of memory at Duke as well as a draft interpretive plan for inclusion of untold stories into classes, campus tours and orientations.
A digest of last week's prophetic and interpretive thought "Plan A is to live and die in Libya.
[ image: /photos/590959011c7a8e33fb38b9ce]A digest of last week's prophetic and interpretive thought "Plan A is to live and die in Libya.
