Above the Oxbow

Danielle Raad is assistant professor of history and museum studies at University of Georgia. She is a public historian, anthropologist, archeologist, and curator with a focus on how people in the present make meaning from the material culture—art, artifacts, and historic sites—of the past.

• List of Figures Acknowledgments Chapter 1 – The Ascent: An Introduction Chapter 2 – Narrating the Mountain's Past Chapter 3 – "Is Not the Scene Magnificent?": The View from Mount Holyoke Chapter 4 – Participation and Parcel: Conserving and Experiencing Nature Chapter 5 – Ruin to Museum: Historical Engagement at the Summit House Chapter 6 – Materializing Memory on the Mountain Coda – The Descent Endnotes Bibliography Index

"Raad brings new ideas to play in this inquiry such as a different sense of place created by a mostly natural rather than constructed setting…a good addition to a bookshelf containing histories of places and their cultural significances and meanings." — Dan Allosso, author of Peppermint Kings: A Rural American History