Two decades after editing his university newspaper, Jeff Guin looks back on the newsroom as an early laboratory for experimentation, leadership, criticism, and institutional memory. Long before social media gave those instincts a digital form, the experience taught him to study what came before, preserve what mattered, challenge inherited practices, and give a new generation room to make the institution its own. The piece connects journalism training directly to his later approach to digital work.
Tag Archives: Published Works
Paging the Past in “Herculaneum: Past and Future”
A review of Andrew Wallace-Hadrill’s Herculaneum: Past and Future, examining how archaeology, conservation, architecture, geology, material culture, and site management combine to reveal the ancient city as both a preserved place and an ongoing preservation challenge.
Master’s Thesis: “Timbertown Folk Traditions”
In 2002, my Master’s Thesis from the Northwestern State University Folklife and Southern Culture program was published in the Louisiana Folklife Journal and presented at the Louisiana Folklore Society Conference. Published in Louisiana Folklife Journal: Vol. XX., 1996 55 pages, 0 Photographs, $10.00 Abney, Lisa.…
CRM Journal Review: Key Ingredients Exhibit
This review examines Key Ingredients: America By Food, a Smithsonian traveling exhibition that uses everyday foodways to explore American history, identity, work, migration, family, and community. Designed to travel to smaller communities through the Museum on Main Street program, the exhibition demonstrates how an ordinary and universally recognizable subject can open much larger cultural conversations. Food becomes the interpretive doorway through which visitors encounter both shared national stories and distinctly local experiences.
Fostering community understanding amid inconvenient archaeology
A case study in public archaeology and community communication from Natchitoches, Louisiana, where excavation beneath a historic brick street created real disruption for residents and businesses. The Beneath the Bricks effort treated public explanation and dialogue as part of the archaeological process itself, using events, local media, and the web to build understanding while the work was underway.
NCPTT Notes Issue 48: Introducing Preservation Today
This publication features the usual training and research articles. A few were written by a promising student journalist named Kevin Clarkston. I was lucky enough to teach Kevin in a Feature Writing class at Northwestern and then have him as a practicum student at NCPTT. One of his articles features the new Preservation Today social media experiment I've been working on.
NCPTT Catalog of Research
NCPTT Catalog of free research by National Center for Preservation Technology and Training on Scribd This catalog features research conducted over the first ten years of the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training. I conceptualized, designed and wrote (except where noted) this catalog in…
Newsletter: NCPTT Notes 47
This newsletter features the NCPTT Grants program--newest grants and call for proposals--with a centerfold pull-out poster. Additionally, a research project about the recovery of waterlogged objects, such as those related to shipwrecks, is featured.
Past Horizons Online Archaeology Magazine
"Past Horizons: Online Journal of Volunteer Archaeology and Training" has gone live with its September issue. Designed by Preservation Today collaborator David Connelly, it features a magazine style layout with lots of online tweaks like embedded video. To find out more on the magazine, visit the Past Horizons Blog.
Annual Report: Hurricane Katrina Response
The 2005 NCPTT Annual Report covers departmental reports and research in narrative form. Designed in a 20-page signature with a removable promotional centerfold focused on the organization's response to Hurricane Katrina. Conforms to strictures of National Park Service messaging standards.