The Lost Potter's Field: Modern Connections

Our Potter's Field research and memorialization project points to the past ways that people who died on the margins in Seattle and King County were treated leading up to 1912, and how their burial area was obliterated in the wake of the Duwamish river dredging and straightening in 1913. Invisible Histories seeks to make modern connections with all our stories, and our intern, Jacob Neville, assisted Elke with research and interviews with modern programs that seek to create memorialization and remembrance for those who die on the margins of Seattle today. As part of this research, Jacob wrote a research paper about the media's role in portraying people who are homeless. Thank you, Jacob for being our intern in 2025!Join us for this episode where Jacob shared his background and interests exploring these topics.If you are interested in being an intern with Invisible Histories please get in touch! -------------Read Jacob Neville's research report, "Who Gets to Speak: The Role a Media Outlet Plays in Shaping the Narratives About Homelessness in the United States (2025)"If someone is asked to point to a crisis taking place in the country right now, a common answer would be homelessness. A widely discussed topic that has only become a greater, more visible problem, homelessness in the United States continues to capture the attention of journalists and reporters. As the media attention has increased, certain narratives about homelessness become dominant, shaping the responses to the crisis by local and regional governments. With the media playing a crucial role in how the general public learns about and views homelessness, it is important to examine which voices are included, and which are excluded, during the process of narrative construction regarding the topic. This report examines the content of six different media outlets that have done extensive reporting on homelessness at both local and national levels. The results provide answers to the size of the platform different communities are given by various media outlets to provide their input into the causes, effects, and solutions to homelessness in the United States. Music is: Slow Sunny Dream by Pacific Oaks -- Uppbeat.ioMusic from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/pacific-oaks/slow-sunny-dreamLicense code: JFOIMTVMLJGYQTDLCari Simson and Elke Hautala formed Invisible Histories to visually and viscerally connect the public to experiences from the past. Their Invisible Histories podcast unearths diverse local stories and forgotten places. www.invisible-histories.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.