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After a year spent living in a trailer park and a rooming house in Milwaukee, Desmond wrote Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. He interviewed landlords, realtors, and his neighbors who, already spending most of their income on rent, faced hard choices and ultimately eviction for nonpayment. Audiovisuals, photos, infographics, as well as physical items, and “houses” the viewer can enter provide an immersive, tactile context that tells their stories in a way that numbers can’t. The exhibit,…

After a year spent living in a trailer park and a rooming house in Milwaukee, Desmond wrote Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. He interviewed landlords, realtors, and his neighbors who, already spending most of their income on rent, faced hard choices and ultimately eviction for nonpayment. Audiovisuals, photos, infographics, as well as physical items, and “houses” the viewer can enter provide an immersive, tactile context that tells their stories in a way that numbers can’t. The exhibit,…

After a year spent living in a trailer park and a rooming house in Milwaukee, Desmond wrote Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. He interviewed landlords, realtors, and his neighbors who, already spending most of their income on rent, faced hard choices and ultimately eviction for nonpayment. Audiovisuals, photos, infographics, as well as physical items, and “houses” the viewer can enter provide an immersive, tactile context that tells their stories in a way that numbers can’t. The exhibit,…

After a year spent living in a trailer park and a rooming house in Milwaukee, Desmond wrote Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. He interviewed landlords, realtors, and his neighbors who, already spending most of their income on rent, faced hard choices and ultimately eviction for nonpayment. Audiovisuals, photos, infographics, as well as physical items, and “houses” the viewer can enter provide an immersive, tactile context that tells their stories in a way that numbers can’t. The exhibit,…

After a year spent living in a trailer park and a rooming house in Milwaukee, Desmond wrote Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. He interviewed landlords, realtors, and his neighbors who, already spending most of their income on rent, faced hard choices and ultimately eviction for nonpayment. Audiovisuals, photos, infographics, as well as physical items, and “houses” the viewer can enter provide an immersive, tactile context that tells their stories in a way that numbers can’t. The exhibit,…

After a year spent living in a trailer park and a rooming house in Milwaukee, Desmond wrote Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. He interviewed landlords, realtors, and his neighbors who, already spending most of their income on rent, faced hard choices and ultimately eviction for nonpayment. Audiovisuals, photos, infographics, as well as physical items, and “houses” the viewer can enter provide an immersive, tactile context that tells their stories in a way that numbers can’t. The exhibit,…

Lighthouses, farmsteads, cemeteries, ancient shell middens and shipwrecks--all are part of Cape Cod's history, as well as our present. But what about the future? With the likelihood of rising sea level and more severe storms, climate change poses a real threat not just to natural resources and ecosystems, but to cultural resources as well. Cape Cod National Seashore Historian Bill Burke will discuss what the National Park Service is doing to prepare for climate change effects on prehistoric and historic…