The Monumental Project
Welcome to The Monumental Project, the official companion podcast of the Monuments Toolkit, a project of World Heritage USA that is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to help communities with reinterpreting their monuments landscape. In this podcast, we meet with artists, activists, and academics to discuss how monuments around the world continue to grow and evolve.
The Monumental Project
Protecting Freedmen's Town, Part 2: Preservation with Freedmen's Town Conservancy
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In this episode, we're continuing our conversation about Freedmen's Town by turning toward some of the efforts currently happening to protect the infrastructure while also modernizing it as a livable community. We're joined by Sharon Fletcher, Executive Director of the Freedmen's Town Conservancy, who tells us why Freedmen's Town is a monument of worldwide importance.
Credits
Host: Noah Price
Interviewer: Noah Price
Production: Noah Price
Song Credits:
Melancholy Lull by Vital
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