Adams Street Cemetery Project
History project turned into theatre piece

When Dr. Indira Gesink, chair of the history department at Baldwin-Wallace College was approached by the City of Berea and the Berea American Legion to help identify a few veterans' graves after the keeper at the nearby Adams Street Cemetery suddenly died, she had no idea it would lead to this.

Watch this video and find out how identifying the 22 veterans and their grave sites was just the beginning. The students mapped the cemetery, found 116 graves, worked with the biology department to learn tree coring to identify age, created a walking tour, worked with the communications department to help train volunteers to interview veterans for an oral history project, and are now working on the history of the Polish in the region. When B-W theatre legend Jack Winget got wind of the project, he proposed a docu-drama, and now history students and theatre students are collaborating on a theatre piece to be presented at the Kleist Center for Art & Drama on Wed 4/28 & Thu 4/29. http://www.bw.edu\\\\\