New Stories at an Old Hotel
Published on Friday, September 28, 2012
Since January, a team of top historians have been working hard on Dallas Heritage Village’s latest exhibit. Have I mentioned that these historians are still in middle school and high school?
Over the past several years, the Junior Historians have completed several projects (http://dhvblog.org/2011/07/19/a-new-generation-of-curators/)that have developed their historical muscles, which made them all the more ready for the challenges of the Worth Hotel project. Unlike our other projects, they had a wealth of primary sources to work with–census records, newspaper articles, and oral histories. Some of those primary sources didn’t exactly match up perfectly, so there was much discussion as we tried to get closer to the truth. Emily explained that process (http://dh ..