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Interview Of Mary Butler, Mary Butler, Zach Bower
Interview Of Mary Butler, Mary Butler, Zach Bower
All Oral Histories
Mary (King) Butler was born in 1942 in King and Queen County, Virginia. Her parents are Hayes and Blanche King. Her father’s parents were Archie King, Sr. and Rossie King. Her mother’s parents were Joshua and Peggie Whiting. Mary is the oldest of four children. Her two brothers were born in 1943 and 1951, and her sister was born in 1961. Her nuclear family lived close to her father’s parent’s farm in Plainview, VA. Her family was active in both Union Prospect Baptist Church and First Baptist Church.
Butler worked often on her grandparent’s farm as a child. Butler and …
Themes And Topics In American Culture (Amst 200) City As Classroom Project Report, Elizabeth Langemak Phd
Themes And Topics In American Culture (Amst 200) City As Classroom Project Report, Elizabeth Langemak Phd
City as Classroom Projects
American Studies 200 is a topics course focusing on one American theme or topic, and examining it from the perspectives of multiple academic disciplines. Students in this section were exposed to a combination of lecture, discussion, guest lectures, field trips, writing, and presentation assignments to help them improve their reading, thinking, and writing on food and sustainability issues at a college level.
In order to be exposed to real-life applications of food sustainability concepts explored in class, students were given 10 different options for trips into the city at various points in the semester, and required to choose any 3 …