The recipients of the 2014–15 Gessell Fellowship for Social Ethics will present their project, “Can I Get a Witness? Sewanee’s St. Mark’s Community,” at 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 14, in Hargrove Auditorium at Sewanee’s School of Theology.
Sara Milford, T’15, and Katie Bradshaw, T’15, became interested in this topic on Ash Wednesday Quiet Day in 2014. “This is the St. Mark’s side of the cemetery,” professor Jerry Smith told seminarians in the University Cemetery on that day.
Bradshaw and Milford, now senior seminarians, were eager to know more about a church they did not know existed and learn the story of a community whose life was nearly forgotten. The presentation, which includes Bradshaw and Milford’s documentary film, captures some of the history of the African-American community in Sewanee: what it was and still is. The intention has been to preserve some of the rich history and valuable stories these families and individuals hold for and with Sewanee.
The Gessell Fellowship in Social Ethics, established by John M. “Jack” Gessell in 2006, provides funding for Sewanee students to do an independent research project in social theory or social ethics.
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