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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
What Remains: Infirmary Burials, Memory, and Community in the Rubber City

What Remains: Infirmary Burials, Memory, and Community in the Rubber City

Behrman, Carolyn
Matney, Timothy

Paperback

Series: Ohio History and Culture

AnthropologyArchaeologyRegional: Midwest

Publisher Price: $40.00

ISBN10: 1629222941
ISBN13: 9781629222943
Publisher: University of Akron Press
Published: Sep 30 2025
Pages: 314
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
What Remains presents a grassy field with a complicated and fraught history. What is now a suburban park where people play soccer and flag football in the City of Akron, Ohio, was once a Progressive-era county infirmary's burial ground for people who were poor, infirm, troubled, immigrant, injured, alcoholic, elderly, or otherwise deemed unemployable during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through community-engaged scholarship, this book uses legal, historical, archaeological, and anthropological lenses to consider what is above and below the grass. What Remains is about memories and stories; how at times we collectively remember, forget, or even invent new pasts through the process of tracing and uncovering our own histories. It is about what is worth remembering, what is better left forgotten, and who gets to decide.

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