Summer 2025 Program, Preservation Institute Nantucket (PIN), Nantucket, MA

Posted January 21, 2025

Description

Explore Nantucket’s heritage this summer with a trip to the nation’s oldest operating field school for historic preservation, Preservation Institute Nantucket (PIN). Since 1972, the University of Florida’s PIN program has hosted over 700 students to document and safeguard Nantucket’s architectural and cultural heritage.

This summer, we will focus on the historic neighborhood of New Guinea, home to Nantucket’s most diverse and dynamic working-class community, including African, Cape Verdean, Portuguese, and Azorean residents. Since the early 18th century, Black whalers, formerly enslaved people, and Wampanoag lived here, as property owners, businesspeople, and champions of equality and freedom during a time when slavery was legal and ubiquitous across the U.S.

Many of Nantucket’s notable Black residents are buried in the nearby ‘Coloured Cemetery,’ and from their stories we understand the cultural significance of New Guinea. Today, it is widely accepted that New Guinea has gentrified and many of the original buildings no longer exist, but is this really true? Join us to examine the existing buildings and the archival record, to discover the long lineage of diversity in New Guinea, and to connect known social history to place. As a PIN student, you will work with local experts and the community to discover and build the untold narrative. Resources will include archival records, newspapers, census, and deeds, as well as architectural and material investigations of existing buildings. Your work will be shared through public presentations, ArcGIS StoryMaps, and Massachusetts historic documentation reporting.

A ZOOM Open House will be held on Wednesday, February 12, from 12-1 EST. Please email [email protected] to receive the Zoom Link.

How to Apply:

Please see here for more details and to apply: https://dcp.ufl.edu/historic-preservation/pin/