End Game!

Esteemed Student, I am very excited about your projects! Most of you seem off to a really good start and are coming up with some great stories for your signs. A few of you have some catching up to do, but it is not too late. If you missed class today, make sure to visit or call me ASAP.

As agreed upon today, here is the end game for this class:

• Today we went over the ghost signs in the database and assigned specific signs to specific students to research in a new column I added at the end of the table. Please check and see if you are signed up correctly. 
• Please remember to put your images in Dropbox. Also, please try to date your signs as best you can.
• We will not meet this Thursday or next Tuesday. Use these times for research and writing. In fact the class will meet only one more time: on Thursday, June 6 at 2 p.m. at the Digital Archives.
• The focus of that last class meeting will be to read and critique the stories. So please have all of your stories finished or as near to finished as possible and bring 8 copies of each (double spaced please) to class. This includes your images, with captions.To save printing maybe just 1-2 copies of your images are sufficient.
• How long should each story be? Shoot for 500 words. Some of you have come upon big stories that may require more space, but on no account go over 2000 words.Include a bibliography but do not use footnotes. Each story should also include 4-6 images, with captions.
• After our meeting on the 6th you will have one week to make revisions. Everything is due on Thursday, June 13 at 11:59 p.m. Put your stories as Word docs (no Mac pages files, please) in the new folder created for that purpose. Insert the images into the Word doc, but also save them in the folder. Clearly label everything. 

That is it--we are almost done. I am insanely busy these last weeks just like you, but if you need to see me or talk on the phone I will make it happen. Good luck!

Do We Have All of These?

Thursday at the MAC

Update: Please read Egan, “After 54 Years, River's Quirk Gives Up a Clue in a Killing” for Thursday.

Thursday we will meet at 2:30 at the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture in the Brown's Addition neighborhood of Spokane. Directions here. Go to the admissions desk and explain that you are there to do research for Dr. Cebula's class and they will sign you in and give you a badge. Bring your student ID if you can find it, a camera, a pencil and paper. You can use a laptop but I believe that there is no wireless available. If you show up early you can get right to researching or you can take a walking tour of the neighborhood with Spokane Historical.

Though I cannot join you, you could visit the Elk afterwards. Just sayin'.

Ghost Signs Zones and Assignments

On to the fun part of this class! I have broken Spokane into three zones with, I think, roughly equal numbers of ghost signs, or equal numbers of places to look anyway:
View Ghost Signs in a larger map The teams are Zone 1: Catlin and Nicolle Zone 2: Axle, Mayra and Lindsey Zone 3: Frank and Erin. A few guidelines as you go hunting:

1. Work in pairs or threes. Though Spokane is a safe city overall, I don't want you poling through the alleyways alone.
2. Take your zoomiest camera and a clipboard full of the data sheets, which you may print off from this website. A printed map of Spokane will also be useful for approximating street addresses.
3. Your friend Google Street view may come in handy for pinning down addresses and the like.
4. The sooner you can do your first field trips the better.
5. Look up, look down. Bonus points for anyone who finds a horse ring.
6.  Enter your data into the database as you find it.
7. Label photographs with the street address of the building.