Nothing Happened Here: Finding the Unfound at Moreland Farm by Dane Galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere “Our stories are not fiction, but (even) if they are not told well, Nothing will be remembered.” (Crane, 2020, p. 221) /// Assignment 2 /// LLC745 en-us 2023-08-31 05:26:45 UTC 2023-09-20 13:51:43 UTC hello@padlet.com dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681580065 2023-09-01 21:40:53 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681580065 dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681580073 2023-09-01 21:40:53 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681580073 dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681580074 2023-09-01 21:40:53 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681580074 dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681580076 2023-09-01 21:40:53 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681580076 dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681580077 2023-09-01 21:40:53 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681580077 dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681580082 2023-09-01 21:40:53 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681580082 dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681580088 2023-09-01 21:40:53 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681580088 dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681580091 2023-09-01 21:40:53 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681580091 dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681580092 2023-09-01 21:40:53 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681580092 dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681580093 2023-09-01 21:40:53 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681580093 dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681580098 2023-09-01 21:40:53 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681580098 dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681580099 2023-09-01 21:40:53 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681580099 dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681580102 2023-09-01 21:40:53 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681580102 dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681602355 The pages before you now give a curated glimpse at the “official” historical record on Moreland. I stumbled upon this document almost randomly, as a happy accidental consequence of seemingly stalled research. In the Nothingness of stalling, or as Docot might say - through the “negative productions of conducting fieldwork in the hometown” - my aimless searching led me to a source of insight not previously on my radar. This column represents the “official” record. It reveals the nature of "studying history" as being closely tied to various projects of cultural hegemony and violence - nationalism (see Anderson), white supremacy (see Zuberi), racial capitalism (see Harris), epistemological hegemony (see Foucault); essentially, uncritical worship of the Eurocentric state archive. This is how the "story" has been "studied”, and through its meta-examination may we ascertain what has been considered “something” and what has been considered “Nothing”.]]> 2023-09-01 22:54:07 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681602355 Docot, D. (2017). Negative Productions during Fieldwork in the Hometown. GeoHumanities. dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681602742 2023-09-01 22:55:44 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681602742 Crane, Susan A. (2020). Nothing Happened: A History. Stanford University Press. dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681602763 2023-09-01 22:55:49 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681602763 Maryland Historical Trust. (2003). Moreland Architectural Survey File. Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties. dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681602789 2023-09-01 22:55:55 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681602789 Ayoub, J. with Crane, Susan A. (2021). Podcast: A History of Nothing. The Fire These Times Community Supported Podcast and Project. dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681618595 2023-09-01 23:49:23 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681618595 dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681619326 So let us now claim that Nothing is and isn’t the way it was, Moreland or less. Despite its persistent presence (pre-sense), it seems that Nothing was once a signature signed solely and soullessly by the authority of the nameless though not unnamed arbiters of history. Nothingness can now be ascertained with an unprecedented quickness, though this acceleration also applies to its associated activity; and in activity (inactivity), Nothing is now disputed and debated like Nothing before. For Nothing has changed. It really, truly has.]]> 2023-09-01 23:51:41 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681619326 Line of Inquiry #1. Black Resistance and Self-Determination; John White’s Terrorism; and the Path to Reparations, Reconciliation, and White(‘s) Accountability dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681619446 First, we must know the history of Black self-determination and liberation within and around the place that is Moreland, though it is no Moreland than the sky or the ocean. What is known must be unknown, what’s unknown known, what’s gotten begotten, what's forgotten got. ]]> 2023-09-01 23:52:01 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681619446 dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681620931 Before you are assorted items connecting the place of Moreland Farm to a Morepersonal Nothingness, that which may have once been something before its relegation to the Nothingness of the past. Maybe these are not things (No, things) but rather brief glimpses into what may or may not have gone on there. Births, deaths, belongings, betrayals, bridges between the being and bereaving of Moreland. Not one of these things may be captured by a caption or recreated via retrospection, for Nothing is and isn't simply the sum of its constituent emptinesses. Nothingness is something steadfastly stronger than the sum of its selves.]]> 2023-09-01 23:57:34 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681620931 dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681624922 2023-09-02 00:11:31 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681624922 dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681625018 Courtesy of Frederick News Post]]> 2023-09-02 00:11:55 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681625018 dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681628480 2023-09-02 00:22:38 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681628480 dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681630934 2023-09-02 00:29:43 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681630934 dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681630939 2023-09-02 00:29:43 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681630939 dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681635449 2023-09-02 00:42:18 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681635449 dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681707024 2023-09-02 04:29:06 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2681707024 Line of Inquiry #3. Family Fracture and the Messiness of Memory dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2682063489 And finally, what's left to wonder of Moreland’s Nothingness but the foregone Nothings of family fracture, those things known as Nothing or unknown as something? Of all the things to know of Nothing, I know one thing for sure: that Nothing is found, not one thing at all, well at Moreland Farm.]]> 2023-09-02 23:02:08 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2682063489 dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2682064641 Posthumously, we
inherit an image of
that which we were not.
- DVG 2004
]]> 2023-09-02 23:08:16 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2682064641 dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2682082959 2023-09-03 00:44:17 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2682082959 dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2682082965 2023-09-03 00:44:19 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2682082965 dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2682099242 2023-09-03 02:09:22 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2682099242 dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2682099372 2023-09-03 02:09:59 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2682099372 dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2682099387 2023-09-03 02:10:01 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2682099387 Zuberi, T. Thicker than Blood: How Racial Statistics Lie. UMN Press. dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2683457117 2023-09-04 13:55:49 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2683457117 Foucault, M. (1980). Power/Knowledge. Pantheon Books. dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2683565999 2023-09-04 15:54:55 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2683565999 Anderson, B. (1983). Imagined Communities. Verso. dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2683569996 2023-09-04 16:00:18 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2683569996 Harris, C. (1993). Whiteness as Property. Harvard Law Review, Vol. 106, No. 8. dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2683571461 2023-09-04 16:02:19 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2683571461 dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2683583205 Take this journey with me. First we identify the seed of a new line of inquiry: the Moreland Farm file references a Pleasant View District file, claiming that the latter was founded by persons previously enslaved at the former by John White and family. ]]> 2023-09-04 16:16:55 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2683583205 dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2683583448 Let’s follow the thread and return to the archives in search of Pleasant View District File (F-1–139). Watch what happens as we make the query in the search bar and attempt to click on the results...]]> 2023-09-04 16:17:16 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2683583448 dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2683589136 So even though the file wasn’t found by ordinary means, I eventually managed to locate it with a website workaround. This process exposed a flaw in the archive search engine, most likely a fluke consequence, ironically, of a recent website revamp. We can speculate on the “why” of the issue, but it won’t change the “what”, which is to say: malicious or not, the archive is neither accessible nor equitable, and if Nothing is searchable, then Nothing will be found. (I have flagged the error to the admins, and in the meantime I will be taking a deep dive into document F-1-139, found in full in episode 5).]]> 2023-09-04 16:24:50 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2683589136 dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2683593960 Native Land Digital is one way to start the investigation. See episode 5 for further reading.]]> 2023-09-04 16:31:07 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2683593960 dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2702194622 2023-09-13 14:17:53 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2702194622 dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2702194623 2023-09-13 14:17:53 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2702194623 Maryland Historical Trust. (2019). Pleasant View Survey District Survey File. Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties. dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2704596318 2023-09-14 17:24:43 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2704596318 dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2706356588 We know the things undergirding Nothingness. To know the thingness of a place, its Nothingness must surface and speak the unknowable into knowableness, into know-a-thingness. For your consideration, here are three lines of inquiry to be explored, with Nothing left unturned.]]> 2023-09-15 19:30:33 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2706356588 Creative Commons Copyright License for this webpage: dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2706918065 Nothing Happened Here: Finding the Unfound at Moreland Farm © 2023 by Dane Victor Galloway is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 ]]> 2023-09-16 16:39:12 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2706918065 Line of Inquiry #2. Unearthing Indigenous Epistemologies via Decolonized Methodologies dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2706934324 As we observed in the document of Episode 2, Nothing adorns the majority of the Moreland historical deed, so we should next assume untold ledger lines of genocidal seizing of the indigenous sovereign land. There is no Moreland without Lessland. There never was nor will be.]]> 2023-09-16 17:09:23 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2706934324 Smith, L.T. (1999). Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples. Zed Books Ltd. dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2706936509 2023-09-16 17:13:28 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2706936509 Start here dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2706959924 Welcome to Nothing Happened Here: Finding the Unfound at Moreland Farm. This project tentatively traces the threads, known and unknown, of the place that is Moreland Farm, culminating with a call to investigate further three new lines of inquiry. 

The story unfolds via various media to create a sort of non-fiction prose poem that can be experienced a number of ways, outlined in the next text box. 

In any case, this project is first and foremost a vehicle of self-expression and self-discovery, starting with the personal (Ep. 1), then moving through the political (Ep. 2), the present (Ep. 3), and finally, ending with the possible (Ep. 4). The project title and column headings are taken from Susan A. Crane's book, Nothing Happened: A History, which can be accessed in the final column (Ep. 5), along with additional resources and references. 
]]> 2023-09-16 17:57:11 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2706959924 dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2706971357 This project is designed to be experienced as either a live presentation/performance or as an interactive exhibit on your own device. If you are interacting with this project on your own, you have a few options: 
  • Option 1 (recommended) - For episodes 1-3, click play on the audio at the top of each column and slowly scroll through each column until its audio has ended. Note that clicking on the photos to enlarge them will stop the audio. To avoid this issue, open the audio in a separate tab by pressing play and then the "pop-out" button on the right. Then you can explore the items more closely while the audio plays in a separate tab. Episode 4 contains several audio narrations as well as a few screen recorded videos with voiceover; these are meant to be taken in one after the other, so start at the top, press play, and expand each item to full screen as desired. 
  • Option 2 - Find the "slideshow" button on your screen. Press play. Use the arrows at the bottom of the page to navigate through the slides, one by one, engaging with the material as you wish.
  • Option 3 - You may simply move through the items on this page right here right now one by one, reading the text boxes (with or without listening to the audio narration) and viewing the photos, screen recordings, and documents within each column, moving from top to bottom and left to right.

]]> 2023-09-16 18:22:11 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2706971357 dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2707572862 2023-09-17 18:00:19 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2707572862 dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2707575126 2023-09-17 18:03:19 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2707575126 Roundtree, H. and Davidson, T. (1993). Eastern Shore Indians of Virginia and Maryland. dane_galloway https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2709470291 2023-09-18 19:49:51 UTC https://padlet.com/dane_galloway/nothinghappenedhere/wish/2709470291