{"220541":{"#nid":"220541","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Thoreau and Beston Homes Find New Home","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn Fall\u0026nbsp; 2011, students in Crawford\u0027s LCC 3308 (Environmentalism and Ecocriticism) studied nature writers who built small houses and wrote about their lives there: Henry David Thoreau\u0027s \u003Cem\u003EWalden\u003C\/em\u003E, Henry Beston\u0027s \u003Cem\u003EOutermost House\u003C\/em\u003E and Bernd Heinrich\u0027s \u003Cem\u003EA Year in the Maine Woods\u003C\/em\u003E.\u0026nbsp; Each writer built in a different technique: timber frame, dimensional lumber, and log. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe class, which\u0026nbsp; consisted of Building Construction majors, took as their projects the construction of three replica houses and divided into teams to research their author\u0027s life and writing, the writing of that period in American Literature, as well as the history and cultural implications of each building technique. They then built a structure in that particular style. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe houses were on display for a year in front of the Georgia Tech Architecture Building. The log house was previously moved to the playground at the Atlanta Day Women and Children\u0027s Shelter. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThey now find their permanent homes at English Avenue Community Urban Farms, a non-profit organization whose mission is to develop green space and public safety initiatives to improve the quality of life of \u003Cem\u003EEnglish Avenue\u003C\/em\u003E residents.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Built in Hugh Crawford\u0027s LCC 3308  \u0022Environmentalism and Ecocriticism\u0022"}],"field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27725","created_gmt":"2013-07-03 09:57:17","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:14:27","author":"Carol Senf","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-07-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-07-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"220451":{"id":"220451","type":"image","title":"Hugh Crawford","body":null,"created":"1449243508","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:38:28","changed":"1475894888","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:08","alt":"Hugh Crawford","file":{"fid":"197253","name":"img_18.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/img_18_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/img_18_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2330,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/img_18_0.jpg?itok=Ga9JLs9g"}},"220471":{"id":"220471","type":"image","title":"Crawford 1","body":null,"created":"1449243508","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:38:28","changed":"1475894888","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:08","alt":"Crawford 1","file":{"fid":"197254","name":"crawford_1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/crawford_1_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/crawford_1_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":33976,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/crawford_1_0.jpg?itok=eIVR_8tX"}},"220481":{"id":"220481","type":"image","title":"Crawford 2","body":null,"created":"1449243508","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:38:28","changed":"1475894888","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:08","alt":"Crawford 2","file":{"fid":"197255","name":"crawford_2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/crawford_2_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/crawford_2_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":43406,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/crawford_2_0.jpg?itok=b-S5QMz-"}},"220491":{"id":"220491","type":"image","title":"crawford 3","body":null,"created":"1449243508","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:38:28","changed":"1475894888","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:08","alt":"crawford 3","file":{"fid":"197256","name":"crawford_3jpg.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/crawford_3jpg_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/crawford_3jpg_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":33818,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/crawford_3jpg_0.jpg?itok=I2OsAzE4"}}},"media_ids":["220451","220471","220481","220491"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1461","name":"Building Construction"},{"id":"69051","name":"ecocriticism"},{"id":"11114","name":"Environmentalism"},{"id":"69061","name":"green spaces"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:hugh.crawford@lmc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ehugh.crawford@lmc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}