Land & Memory

Old buildings as physical archives—nail holes, wallpaper, altered doors, foundations, repairs, scars. It explains why restoration became a method of discovery.

A parcel existed as land before somebody numbered it, deeded it, zoned it or built upon it. A perfect entry into your way of seeing Eastland.

Not the existing vignette, but the larger question: who decides which ground is sacred? Cemetery, battlefield, homestead, gathering place, ordinary dirt.

Your practical field method: maps, topography, buildings, orientation, vegetation, archival records, local testimony—and simply standing there long enough to notice.