Our neighborhood lost its community center to budget cuts three years ago and some of us have been meeting to document what we lost and advocate for getting it back, but we keep getting stuck on whose stories to center because different groups used that space in ways that sometimes conflicted. The teenagers who hung out there have a different story than the seniors who played cards, and we can't figure out how to honor all of it without diluting our argument.
More people experience this than they realize.
A group working to preserve collective memory must navigate competing claims about whose experience should define the meaning of what was lost.
“Where Are You with What history remembers and what it forgets?”
Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.