WELCOME
Welcome to Dorothy Arroyo’s COPLAC “Hidden Pasts” Class Blog Page. Our online course is making an attempt to understand what happened when the “ownership” of land moved from the native people of America to early colonials. The goal is to digitize their own understandings of written and spoken archives. Arroyo is working to understand this “transference” of land in the Monadnock Region of New Hampshire. Arroyo is working out of Keene State College in Keene, NH alongside Professor Marie Duggan and Student Jenifer Afualo.
THE GOAL
Arroyo’s goal is to present her findings in both a way that gets to the roots and truth of the natives that were in Keene before European Colonists arrive AND is engaging for the online audience. She is also aiming to educate that online audience on how to do archival research by showing her own learning process.
THE PERSONALITY
Arroyo is an Undergrad who is pursuing an Environmental Studies Major with a Management Minor. She has a unique personality that illuminates the phrase “Work Hard, Play Hard.” Through-out her blog posts you may notice a combination of scientific-writing structure and casual online word-play. She aims to have sophisticated base to her writing, but also includes layman’s terms. She wants to connect all the dots for her readers and openly address when there are unanswered questions through her research and findings.
THE DRIVE
“There is so much that we don’t know. We were taught that there were these peaceful, but also violent people here before us. They believed these lands were sacred. I don’t blame them, Keene, NH is the most beautiful place I’ve ever lived. It really lights a fire in me that there is no clear information of the internet that highlights their story. Who they really were, what they really did. I want to know who stood on this land before me and why they loved this place. I want to share that information with the world. Be another bridge in telling their story based on what I find in the archives.”
-Dorothy Arroyo, ENST Undergrad, 2018
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