The Land Has Memory

Download or read book The Land Has Memory written by Duane Blue Spruce and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The museum features four distinct habitats that recall the indigenous landscape of the Chesapeake Bay region before European contact: hardwood forest, wetlands, meadow, and traditional croplands. Abundantly illustrated with photographs and drawings, this volume offers beautiful images of the museum's natural environment in every season as well as the uniquely designed building itself. Essays by Smithsonian staff and others involved in the museum's creation provide an examination of indigenous peoples' long and varied relationship to the land in the Americas, an account of the museum designers' efforts to reflect traditional knowledge in the creation of individual landscape elements, detailed descriptions of the plants used in the context of each of the four landscape environments, and an exploration of how the landscape changes seasonally.