Over the course of six weeks during the summer of 2025, the Rooted Wisdom team worked with a group of Montgomery County Public School students in the Summer RISE initiative. After listening to interviews about the Harper Cabin, the students visited the cabin with Tony to discuss the role of memory in our understanding of history.

This is the fourth in a series of four episodes that explore the history of the Harper Cabin at Brookside Nature Center in Wheaton, MD.

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When Harper descendant, Faith Harper, steps through the threshold of the cabin that bears her family name—a structure that holds an important place in history—she sees “a home full of love.” Tony and Faith discuss what it means to be a Harper and the love that is the Harper Way.

This is the third in a series of four episodes that explore the history of the Harper Cabin at Brookside Nature Center in Wheaton, Md.

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In good practice historians rely on multiple sources of information to piece together the history of a building or place. Rebeccah Ballo, historian and preservationist, describes this standard as a three-legged bar stool; the physical, the paper trail, and the oral histories. Tony and Rebeccah investigate the historical context of preservation and how that last leg of the bar stool makes the documentation of the Harper Cabin so special.

This is the second in a series of four episodes that explore the history of the Harper Cabin at Brookside Nature Center in Wheaton, MD.

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