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During World War II, Americans of Japanese ancestry were removed from their homes and placed into confinement camps. This presentation overviews eight seasons of landscape archaeology at one of those sites—Amache—located in southeastern Colorado. The site contains an incredibly well-preserved record of how the people incarcerated there transformed a hostile landscape through strategy and skill. Combining historical research, community engagement, and intensive garden archaeology, the Amache Community Archaeology Project is expanding the view of what incarceree gardens are, how they were created, and their importance, both to those who made them and us today.

During World War II, Americans of Japanese ancestry were removed from their homes and placed into confinement camps. This presentation overviews eight seasons of landscape archaeology at one of those sites—Amache—located in southeastern Colorado. The site contains an incredibly well-preserved record of how the people incarcerated there transformed a hostile landscape through strategy and skill. Combining historical research, community engagement, and intensive garden archaeology, the Amache Community Archaeology Project is expanding the view of what incarceree gardens are, how they were created, and their importance, both to those who made them and us today.

Crisp winter mornings; starry (or stormy) nights; sleigh rides and ice skating; joyful gatherings of friends and family. Classical composers have found much to celebrate musically in visions of wintertime. For musical views of the snowy season, Vivaldi’s Winter is beloved, but it isn’t alone. We’ll also go ice skating on the Seine in Paris, take sleigh rides with Mozart and with Leroy Anderson, and dance through a Russian winter with Glazunov. No Nutcrackers, but certainly winter wonders!! Music historian Betsy Schwarm offers familiar, user-friendly sounds of a classical winter.

Crisp winter mornings; starry (or stormy) nights; sleigh rides and ice skating; joyful gatherings of friends and family. Classical composers have found much to celebrate musically in visions of wintertime. For musical views of the snowy season, Vivaldi’s Winter is beloved, but it isn’t alone. We’ll also go ice skating on the Seine in Paris, take sleigh rides with Mozart and with Leroy Anderson, and dance through a Russian winter with Glazunov. No Nutcrackers, but certainly winter wonders!! Music historian Betsy Schwarm offers familiar, user-friendly sounds of a classical winter.