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• Call for Papers - Fall 2012 Issue

  The theme for the next issue is: “The Realm of Public Memory.” Submissions are invited on various subtopics that are broadly imagined to include, but are not limited to history, commemoration, public history (e.g. historical sites and museums), archival work, education, politics, biography and autobiography, virtual spaces of remembrance, and the arts. Categories of submissions may include...

  http://www.southshorejournal.org/index.php/call-for-papers

• Marktown: Clayton Mark’s Planned Worker Community in Northwest Indiana

  Marktown is an urban planned worker community in East Chicago, Indiana, built in 1917 from marshland to provide a complete community for workers at The Mark Manufacturing Company. In the construction of Marktown there was an emphasis on tasteful housing in a humane environment (Shaw, 2002). The industries in East Chicago have since expanded to the borders of Marktown, so that today Marktown is a historic residential island surrounded by one of the densest industrial complexes in the world (Shaw, 2002). This self-contained community has a unique characteristic as noted in Ripley’s Believe It or Not (1967), the streets serve as walkways, and the cars are parked on the sidewalks (Taylor, Stevens, Ponder, & Brockman, 1989).

  http://www.southshorejournal.org/index.php/issues/volume-4-2011/82-marktown-clayton-marks-planned-worker-community-in-northwest-indiana

• Alice Gray, Dorothy Buell, and Naomi Svihla: Preservationists of Ogden Dunes

  The present article describes the contributions of threepreservationists – Alice Mabel Gray, Dorothy Richardson Buell, andNaomi Ireland Svihla. Each of these women resided in Ogden Dunesat some point in their lives, loved the natural beauty of the area, andcontributed to the preservation of the sand dunes of NorthwestIndiana. Alice Gray did so by bringing attention to the Dunes at atime when critical efforts were being made to preserve them as part of the Indiana Dunes State Park. Dorothy Buell founded the Save the Dunes Council that successfully preserved parts of the dunes in the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, and Naomi Svihla added her efforts to the Save the Dunes Council in forming the National Lakeshore.

  http://www.southshorejournal.org/index.php/issues/volume-1-2006/78-journals/vol-1-2006/117-alice-gray-dorothy-buell-and-naomi-svihla-preservationists-of-ogden-dunes

• About the South Shore Journal

  The South Shore Journal is an open access peer reviewed general on-line journal. The Journal is co-sponsored by the NWI Quality of Life Council and the IU NorthwestCenter for Urban and Regional Excellence. This journal provides a South Shore venue for area scholars to focus their attention and academic resources on the region and allows the editors of the journal the ability to showcase the outstanding scholarly work of faculty, students and alumni in Northwest Indiana.

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