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Reimagining the Voices of Our Past: Place-Based Storytelling on the T. Morris Chester Way
Kelan Amme and Tyler Caruso
A short documentary about the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Monument Project and the Pennsylvania Past Players, featuring interviews with Mr. Lenwood Sloan and Rev. Yvette Davis.
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Along the Chester Way: PA Past Players Short Versions
Kelan Amme, Tyler Caruso, Nate Castellitto, and Micah Turner
A playlist of short videos featuring the Pennsylvania Past Players, a company of living history interpreters who embody the personas of prominent 19th century African American women and men. The videos speak about topics of justice, freedom, parity, political participation, education, and reconciliation along the T. Morris Chester Way on Walnut Street in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
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Along the Chester Way: PA Past Players Full Versions
Kelan Amme, Nate Castellitto, and Micah Turner
A playlist of short videos featuring the Pennsylvania Past Players, a company of living history interpreters who embody the personas of prominent 19th century African American women and men. The videos speak about topics of justice, freedom, parity, political participation, education, and reconciliation along the T. Morris Chester Way on Walnut Street in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
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Along the Chester Way: The Pennsylvania Past Players Virtual Tour
Kelan Amme, Cade Smucker, and Joshua Flores
A Story Map featuring eight historical African American figures of the 19th century. The Story Map uses video of the Pennsylvania Past Players, as well as textual descriptions, to highlight the lives of these prominent individuals, their connection to Central Pennsylvania, and their fight for equity, parity, and justice across the Commonwealth, region, and country. The Story Map serves as a virtual tour of sorts, helping to bring those near and far with histories gone unnoticed along the T. Morris Chester Way.
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An Interview with Yvette Davis
Tyler Caruso and Kelan Amme
An interview with Rev. Yvette Davis about the Pennsylvania Past Players, a company of living history interpreters who embody the personas of African Americans prominent in the history of central Pennsylvania. Yvette Davis discusses her experience acting as Harriet Smith and the impact it had on her.
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Thomas Morris Chester Story Map Collection
Nate Castelitto, Tyler Caruso, and Cade Smucker
A story map tour of the life and legacy of Thomas Morris Chester, highly respected Black journalist, soldier, lawyer, and civil rights proponent in the U.S. and wider world in the 19th century.
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Pennsylvania Past Players: Chester Reflections
Tyler Caruso, Micah Pitman, Nick Rizutto, and Hope Roberts
Video interviews with Pennsylvania Past Player Eric Jackson playing Thomas Morris Chester as Chester reflects on his life in 19th century America.
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Behind the Bronze: The Story of Pennsylvania's Commonwealth Monument
Keli Ganey
A video short about the Commonwealth Monument Project's bronze statuary group, A Gathering at the Crossroads, which commemorates the anniversaries of the ratification of the 15th and 19th Amendments. The monument celebrates the Old Eighth Ward and its residents and features four African American orators who visited or resided in Harrisburg in the late 1800s.
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