Wesleyan Research on Middletown
Oral Histories and the Portland Brownstone Quarries was a course offered by Professor Indira Karamcheti at Wesleyan University in Fall 2009. The students in the course researched the history of the Portland, Connecticut brownstone quarries and interviewed residents and others about their memories and thoughts on the historic quarries. You can visit the main series … Read more
The Biodiversity Database provides species information, photographs, resources, as well as geographic information about Middletown … [and] it is powered by submissions from the Middletown community…. This database includes dates, specific geographic location, and an entry for every single reported sighting of a species, as well as observer information, abundance data, and anything else we … Read more
During the spring semester of 2008, professor Gina Ulysse offered Anthropology 232 — Alter(ed)native Approaches: Middletown Lives, a service learning course that included a social study of people living in the immediate vicinity of the North End landfill. Students in the course (Eric Bissell, Lesley Chapman, Zev Frank, and Amanda Herrera) made this video tour … Read more
