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Title: Ginkgo Teaset
Description: This teaset reflects both the beauty of nature and handcraft. The artist was inspired by ginkgo leaves, which symbolize health and happiness in China.
Date Created: 2015
PID: grinnell:18538

Title: Grinnell Identities
Description: This study was interesting to examine how identity is tied to place. Positioned in the minds of those that give it meaning, “sense of place issues in a stream of symbolically drawn particulars-the visible particulars of local topographies, the personal particulars of biographical associations, and the notional particulars of socially given systems of thought” (Basso 1996:144). In other words, movement within a landscape will assign meaning to different places in that area. Meaning arises from interactions with the landscape-whether it be oral traditions tied to places within a place or events that happen in a place within recent time. As identity develops around place, “without hegemony, means and meaning may never come together, landscape representation may never become a reality, and social conflict will be open as space remains contested” (Harner 2001:676) and power can be exerted through the naming of “geographical entities, most particularly over the way in which places, their inhabitants and their social functions get represented” (Harvey 1990:419).So, we began to shape our study with this in mind.
Date Created: 2011
PID: grinnell:50

Title: Public library, Adel, Iowa, Adel Public Library
Description: This one-story building is one of Adel's oldest structures, having been built in 1879. It served as the Presbyterian Church until 1924 and was later converted to a library by the city. Number A-5510.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:14454