The USC-based Bunker Hill Refrain—an ambitious project merging public history, digital experimentation, and community outreach—is the subject of a new feature story on the PBS SoCal website. The article features interviews with project co-directors Meredith Drake Reitan and Curtis Fletcher as well as with Cassie Heyen, whose great-great-grandfather lived on Bunker Hill from the 1920s to '50s.
The project is an interdisciplinary and cross-campus collaboration with contributions from the faculty, staff, and students of the USC Libraries, the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy, the USC Dornisfe College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, and the USC School of Architecture. Librarians Suzanne Noruschat and Andy Rutkowski, are among its co-directors, as are the aforementioned Fletcher and Mats Borges of the Ahmanson Lab (a unit of the libraries' Sidney Harman Academy for Polymathic Study). Over the summer of 2024, the Los Angeles Public Library's Octavia Lab joined as a project partner, hosting a series of collaborative workshops.