Amy Zytka wins Digital Humanities Award

Public History student Amy Zytka and Scott Warren, site manager at James K Polk, have won a Digital Humanities award from the Southeastern Museum Conference for their website’s Digital Resources, featuring the Polk Family Cemetery website–a project that Amy originated during her internship at the James K Polk historic site last summer. She will also be starting a full-time job there in Dec upon graduation.  The Polk family cemetery was relocated in 1988 from what is now the outer loop of 485 to its current location on the JKP historic site. Dr. Kathy Reichs, UNC Charlotte professor emerita, headed up the relocation and reinterment of the remains. The public facing website has Archival records, photographs, cemetery symbolism and grave marker history, history of the people interred in the cemetery, some interactive features and an interview with monument restoration expert, Jason Harpe from Richard & Grubb Associates.