The Decade that was Lost

Blog 2:  Reflect on and describe our tour of Hollins Market for your next blog assignment… pictures are great to add. What did you see? What did you learn? What do you want to know more about? (Please be respectful as these posts are public... thanks.) During this week of class, our class AMST 422 was forwarded the opportunity to go on a tour of Hollins Market with one of Professor King's friends name Curtis. He showed us the surrounding area of Hollins Market and we got to see a bunch of really cool different places that I never knew were literally right down the road from me. First we strolled along to an area where there Blog 3: REFLECT ON OUR PROJECT (post by end-of-day Tuesday) - Read ALL your classmates blogs before class

Blog 4: The task for this week was to split up into our groups of (past) and (present) focuses, respectively and come up with a full draft narrative on what the area that Hollins Market encompasses looked like during the past years of its existence and the present years today. Within our groups we were assigned various different roles to complete before class this week. I was assigned to the (past) group focus in which we gathered information on what places like "Black Cherry Puppet Theater" and "City of Gods" (to name a few), in order to paint a vivid narrative on how things have either changed or relatively stayed the same. I was given the specific task of contributing to the (past) timeline of events and further going into detail on what Hollins Market may have "looked" like. For example, within the timeline, I stated that in 1936, there was a Centennial Parade in Hollins Market that featured all local business establishments, and in 1940, the Market

Blog (03/14/2018): Please update the progress on your research and what you have done in the past week on your past/present committee/group work. Regarding the research I have done this past week, I have tried to work diligently on finding a way to contribute to the Timeline/ course of events of Hollins Market throughout the 1940s. I realize that the goal of this research project is to focus on the past (or the do historical research on one's specified decade) and the present which has to do with any potential interviews, photos, and documentation that a student will find. The reason why it was kind of hard to find information on my decade of 1940-1950 was not only was most of the city's local businesses converted to places devoted to the Naval War effort in the Pacific Theater during World War II, but Hollins Market itself was enclosed in the year 1940. This ultimately caused the market to be vacant for quite a while and "normal customers" who usually came to the