Title
Approve Letter in Support of Larry Spring Museum's Redwood Time Project Grant Submittal
Summary
At the Community Development Committee Meeting on January 24, 2023, a representative from the Larry Spring Museum requested a letter of support for their upcoming project. Project applicant described the project as follows “The Redwood Time proposes a project series that will facilitate a local community-initiated re-reading of the Redwood Round that stands in front of the Guest House Museum. As with similar redwood rounds in Northern California, our round naturalizes Euro- and human-centric cultural achievements as the default approach to an understanding of modern history. Notably, the markers exclude a number of local alternate histories and events that could have been added to provide us with a richer understanding of the past we inherit and the territory we inhabit. We propose creating a people’s history of our town whereby the community marks events/occurrences/experiences of significance on a facsimile of the round. We will create the facsimile by making a paper cast of the round and then removing and reassembling it at the Larry Spring Museum. Then over a period of close to 2 years, we will run a number of programs that will encourage the community to mark their alternative histories on the paper cast that will be up for display.”