This Heritage Voices episode features Dr. Maria Franklin (University of Texas at Austin), Dr. Alex Menaker (Stantec, Inc.), and Doug Boyd (Stantec, Inc.) and is part one of a two part series on the Bolivar Archaeological Project, a collaborative community archaeology project sponsored by the Texas Department of Transportation. In this episode they provide context for the Bolivar Archaeological Project including the Ransom and Sarah Williams Farmstead project that paved the way for this study. Next, they broke down the different components of the project: Historic research, archaeology, oral history, and community engagement. They described how the different disciplines informed each other and how the lineal descendants and descendant community heavily influenced and contributed to the project throughout. Finally, this episode closes out with a discussion of the archaeology findings, as well as the archaeology of blacksmithing in general. Stay tuned for episode 100 with Mr. Tom Cook’s lineal descendants (who have provided invaluable service to their community in their own right as well), Ms. Betty Kimble and Mr. Howard Clark.

Links

• Excellent video about the Bolivar Archaeological Project
• Texas Department of Transportation Webpage about the Bolivar Archaeological Project
• Easy to read article about Mr. Tom Cook’s Legacy
• At the Intersections of History: Collaborative, Public Archaeology of the Nineteenth-Century Tom Cook Blacksmith Shop along the Chisholm Trail in Bolivar, Texas (Article in Advances in Archaeological Practice)
• Presentation to the North Texas Archaeological Society about the Chisolm Trail and Bolivar Archaeological Project
• Ms. Betty Kimble’s story in Desegregating Denton
• Article about Mr. Howard Clark’s 30 years with the Lewisville Police Department
• Ransom and Sarah Williams Farmstead online exhibit on Texas Beyond History
• The Denton County Office of History and Culture
• Heritage Voices on the APN

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