Project Archive | Messiah, a private Christian University in PA

Poetry in Place

Former Humanities Fellow, Jonathan Wolf, working with students from Harrisburg public schools during a Poetry in Place event.

Through experiencing poetry, Harrisburg public school students and community residents have connected more significantly to the cultural, historical and ecological roots of the Harrisburg region. Poetry in Place was an ongoing project to host workshops based on field trips to local places of significance. The program culminated in a public poetry reading and high-quality publication of resulting poetry.

The Harrisburg Giants baseball team

The project documented the oral histories of the surviving members of the Harrisburg Giants, an American Negro League baseball team that fully integrated in the 1950s. The film features interviews with both Giants and local historians that reveal how determination and a "love of the game" spirit led the team to win championships and to reconcile racial differences despite the segregation of the early twentieth century.