Tag: 2020-07 Monuments Project
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Family Monuments
My uncle was born in Detroit on April 29th, 1923. In October of the same year, he moved with his parents to their home town, Sonneberg Germany. On September 29, 1929 they landed in Toronto, along with my father who was born in Sonneberg. Bill boarded a train in Toronto on its way to California…
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Monuments #1
in: Documentary
Monuments are: A monument is a type of structure that was explicitly created to commemorate a person or event, or which has become relevant to a social group as a part of their remembrance of historic times or cultural heritage, due to its artistic, historical, political, technical or architectural importance. Some of the first monuments…
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Monuments
If we are to hold monuments accountable to history, then we should assess both the truth they tell and conversely whether they perpetrate an incomplete or false narratives. Monuments present us with several questions: Some argue that when we remove a monument we are cancelling culture, rewriting history or reinterpreting our past. But for those…
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Monumental Battles
in: DocumentaryFor those unfamiliar with “Custer’s Last Stand”, the simple story is that in 1876 a troop of 7th US Cavalry, led by George Armstrong Custer, were wiped out by the “Indians.” The truth is of course a little more complex, and more ambiguous, than the popular narrative suggests (see Wikipedia for a comprehensive overview; Smithsonian Magazine…
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Monumental Tensions
in: Documentary
“Adolphus Egerton Ryerson (1803–1882) was a Canadian Methodist minister, educator, politician, and public education advocate in early Ontario.” (Wiki,ER) Ryerson helped found several institutions, which later evolved into ones known today: the Royal Ontario Museum; Victoria College as part of the University of Toronto; the Ontario College of Art & Design; the Ontario Agricultural College and the University of…