Danielle Raad is assistant professor of history and museum studies at University of Georgia. She is a public historian, anthropologist, archeologist, and curator with a focus on how people in the present make meaning from the material culture-art, artifacts, and historic sites-of the past.
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List of Figures Acknowledgments Chapter 1 - The Ascent: An Introduction Chapter 2 - Narrating the Mountain's Past Chapter 3 - "Is Not the Scene Magnificent?": The View from Mount Holyoke Chapter 4 - Participation and Parcel: Conserving and Experiencing Nature Chapter 5 - Ruin to Museum: Historical Engagement at the Summit House Chapter 6 - Materializing Memory on the Mountain Coda - The Descent Endnotes Bibliography Index
"Raad brings new ideas to play in this inquiry such as a different sense of place created by a mostly natural rather than constructed setting...a good addition to a bookshelf containing histories of places and their cultural significances and meanings." - Dan Allosso, author of Peppermint Kings: A Rural American History