I recently had the opportunity to serve as the guest curator for an exhibit on the Mason-Dixon Line, which opened at Frederick Heritage on May 3, 2018. “A Boundary Through Time” focused on exploring the many meanings of the Pennsylvania-Maryland State Line.
Working with the in-house curatorial team, I helped create the exhibit by contributing essays for the catalog, providing research support, and generally serving as the humanities scholar for the project. I also did a member’s talk at the opening reception and another for the public opening a few days later.
I enjoyed exploring the evolving nature of the western line, this old border between Pennsylvania and Maryland, in search of narratives about the varied meanings through time while visually documenting the 21st-century nature of the boundary and the landscape along the border.
