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Planning, Planning, Planning....

The past couple of weeks have been busy ones to say the least; we've recently had past alumni and other special guests in to discuss the outcome of our project. We did something very similar like this last semester, from the "Learning from Lexington", which helped us get an outsiders point of view on how to tweak our project where it will be the most beneficial. The "past" portion of our group has created a digitalized "walking tour" as well as pictures of the current places to use on the website. The present portion of our group have been working on gaining interviews to help contribute to the overall project. My contributions has been targeted setup of the interviews and usage of the equipment, by enlisting a current student who is a pro at the audio equipment. In the coming weeks we will be finishing up interviews and transcribing them for the final project. I'm extremely excited to see how well this project is coming along....

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