The Academy of the Recent Past is dedicated to rummaging through the flotsam and jetsam of our lives. Our board and fellows are inspired by tales of the ordinary. We invite the general public to learn about and participate in our wide array of projects listed below.
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CAMP CAMP: Where Fantasy Island Meets Lord of the Flies
The CAMP CAMP Project is a national photographic exhibit and
accompanying book piecing together camp photographs from the
seventies, eighties, and nineties to create an American story of
who we are and how we got to be this way. If you have photos
that say more than words, stories that say more than photos,
camp year book inscriptions that redefine lust, or a T-shirt of
some style that cries out to be seen, we would love to hear
from you. We are interested in anything from this time and
place where Lord of the Flies met Fantasy Island.
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Those Who Tried To Rock. We Salute You!
If an ambitious history of music told by capturing the details of
every band formed by teens with that perfect mixture of big
dreams and questionable talent in suburban garages, high school
music rooms, and college dorms across America, preserving them
cryogenically with the dry ice they once merited, for future
generations.
IF YOU WERE IN A BAND, even if it lasted for only a
day or two, we desperately need you!!!
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THE WORLD IS PONG
A growing collection of Ping Pong ephemera to study why the second most
popular sport in the world is rarely, if ever, discussed. PING PONG
ENTHUSIASTS OF THE WORLD UNITE!!! We need your help.
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DON’T YOU WANT ME, BABY?
A study of the music of the 1980’s and its impact on the pubescent psyche as
told via discarded Human League, Haircut 100, and Adam & the Ants etc.
posters. We need your help to contribute to the growing archive!!!
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AND YOU SHALL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF OUR VINYL
The history of the Jews in America has been spelled out in books and
dramatized on the big screen. But it has never been told through LP covers.
Until now.
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BAR MITZVAH DISCO
The Music May Have Stopped But the Party is Never Over.
The juvenile adolescent cycle as viewed through the prism of the Bar Mitzvah
circuit circa 1982.
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ROCK DAT COOGI
Preserving, protecting and celebrating all things Coogi, aka Cosby sweaters.
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