After visitors take a look at everyone’s pages, I hope that they can take away new things and parts of history that they never knew about before. What makes it even better for the visitors who see each page on the Cortland 1919 Fire is that they get to see five separate interpretations. Although it is true that each page covers the same topic, there is a variety and perspective that each group holds a primary focus on. These different yet parallel agendas that each group had will help observers make their own interpretations of the history that we have shared.
I would very much like our website to influence students on campus to schedule visits at the archives in the Cortland Memorial Library. Researching in the archives was quite fun compared to using the school’s library databases (which is of course very helpful…just not as fun or engaging). Perhaps after seeing all the information we have accumulated for our projects, then some visitors will entertain the idea of stopping by the archives and doing research for their own projects as well.
-Grant Boyd