Cassie Rosita Patterson is a founder and the executive director of Southern Ohio Folklife, a nonprofit organization supporting, documenting, and networking folklife in southern Ohio. She received her PhD in English and folklore from The Ohio State University in 2015 and served as the associate director of the Center for Folklore Studies and the director of the Folklore Archives from 2012 to 2021. Patterson cocreated the Ohio Field School and served as codirector, archivist, and co-instructor (2016–19) and codirector and archivist (2020–21).Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth is the director and curator of the Baron and Ellin Gordon Art Galleries at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. He previously served as the director and archivist at the Center for Folklore Studies at The Ohio State University, where he was also a postdoctoral scholar and visiting assistant professor in the Department of Comparative Studies. He earned his PhD in anthropology from the University of Kentucky in 2019. His research and outreach focus on environmental folklore and economies of art and craft, especially in Appalachia and other global mountain regions. He has codirected and co-taught the Ohio Field School (2020, 2021, 2024).

"This important collection effectively illustrates the complexities of doing ethnography within contexts of university-community partnered, collaborative research and writing. Scholars and changemakers alike will find it both relevant and timely." - Luke Eric Lassiter, coauthor of I'm Afraid of That Water: A Collaborative Ethnography of a West Virginia Water Crisis

• Poem 1. "Quarantine Days" by Brian RichardsIntroductionCassie Rosita Patterson and Jasper Waugh-QuasebarthPart I. Placemaking Practices in Appalachian OhioPoem 2. "Chestnut oak in a stand of young beech"Brian RichardsPart I Introduction Chapter 1. Negotiating Power in Placemaking Efforts: Internal and External Place-Framing Discourse in Nonprofit and For-Profit Organizations Jordan WoodwardChapter 2. Recovering Black History in Portsmouth, Ohio: Digital Tools, "Guerrilla" Methods, and Public History from BelowAndrew Feight Chapter 3. Whose Monday Creek? Silences, Positionality, and Engaging Difference in the Ohio Field School Austin MilesChapter 4. Forest Stories Katherine BorlandPart II. Teaching and Practicing Collaborative Ethnography Poem 3. "Watch Hooded" Ryan SprinklePart II IntroductionChapter 5. Here and There: A Chinese Scholar's Fieldnotes in Scioto County Anping Luo Chapter 6. Through the Lens of Home: Three Perspectives on the Ohio Field School Sarah Craycraft, Sophia Enriquez, and Laura ThomasChapter 7. An "Unexpected" Fieldwork Story in Scioto CountyMeng Tan Chapter 8. Disabling Landscapes: A Conversation on Navigating Access and Fieldwork Sarah Dove and Ryan Patrus Chapter 9. Time and Place Along the Trail: The Spatial-Temporal Anxieties and Catharses of an Amateur OFS Ethnographer in Shawnee, Ohio E.P. DeCarlo Part III. Sustaining Collaboration Poem 4. "Just Past the Fork" Ryan Sprinkle Part 3 Introduction Chapter 10. Fourteenth Street Community Center Public Writing Project Molly Rideout and Klaire Smith Chapter 11. Collaborative Research in the Rendville, Ohio, Cemetery: Creativity and Reciprocity in Ethnography Lydia Smith and Jacob Kopcienski Chapter 12. Building Through Conversation Cristina Benedetti, Andrew Carter, Jenny Richards, and Kevin Bradbury Chapter 13. Multiyear Participatory Observation and Service Learning: Farm Books, Tender Letters, and Archival Internships with Hurricane Run Farm Barbara Bradbury and Cassie Rosita Patterson Chapter 14. Connecting to Place: Lessons LearnedSusan Eleuterio, Marcia Harris, Bridgette Compton, Kinsey Hall, Robin Hileman, and Amy BarnhartPoem 5. "Traces"Ryan Sprinkle Conclusion: The Ongoing Impacts of the Ohio Field School ProgramCassie Rosita Patterson and Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth AcknowledgmentsContributorsIndex

Cassie Rosita Patterson is a founder and the executive director of Southern Ohio Folklife, a nonprofit organization supporting, documenting, and networking folklife in southern Ohio. She received her PhD in English and folklore from The Ohio State University in 2015 and served as the associate director of the Center for Folklore Studies and the director of the Folklore Archives from 2012 to 2021. Patterson cocreated the Ohio Field School and served as codirector, archivist, and co-instructor (2016–19) and codirector and archivist (2020–21).Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth is the director and curator of the Baron and Ellin Gordon Art Galleries at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. He previously served as the director and archivist at the Center for Folklore Studies at The Ohio State University, where he was also a postdoctoral scholar and visiting assistant professor in the Department of Comparative Studies. He earned his PhD in anthropology from the University of Kentucky in 2019. His research and outreach focus on environmental folklore and economies of art and craft, especially in Appalachia and other global mountain regions. He has codirected and co-taught the Ohio Field School (2020, 2021, 2024).

"This important collection effectively illustrates the complexities of doing ethnography within contexts of university-community partnered, collaborative research and writing. Scholars and changemakers alike will find it both relevant and timely." - Luke Eric Lassiter, coauthor of I'm Afraid of That Water: A Collaborative Ethnography of a West Virginia Water Crisis

• Poem 1. "Quarantine Days" by Brian RichardsIntroductionCassie Rosita Patterson and Jasper Waugh-QuasebarthPart I. Placemaking Practices in Appalachian OhioPoem 2. "Chestnut oak in a stand of young beech"Brian RichardsPart I Introduction Chapter 1. Negotiating Power in Placemaking Efforts: Internal and External Place-Framing Discourse in Nonprofit and For-Profit Organizations Jordan WoodwardChapter 2. Recovering Black History in Portsmouth, Ohio: Digital Tools, "Guerrilla" Methods, and Public History from BelowAndrew Feight Chapter 3. Whose Monday Creek? Silences, Positionality, and Engaging Difference in the Ohio Field School Austin MilesChapter 4. Forest Stories Katherine BorlandPart II. Teaching and Practicing Collaborative Ethnography Poem 3. "Watch Hooded" Ryan SprinklePart II IntroductionChapter 5. Here and There: A Chinese Scholar's Fieldnotes in Scioto County Anping Luo Chapter 6. Through the Lens of Home: Three Perspectives on the Ohio Field School Sarah Craycraft, Sophia Enriquez, and Laura ThomasChapter 7. An "Unexpected" Fieldwork Story in Scioto CountyMeng Tan Chapter 8. Disabling Landscapes: A Conversation on Navigating Access and Fieldwork Sarah Dove and Ryan Patrus Chapter 9. Time and Place Along the Trail: The Spatial-Temporal Anxieties and Catharses of an Amateur OFS Ethnographer in Shawnee, Ohio E.P. DeCarlo Part III. Sustaining Collaboration Poem 4. "Just Past the Fork" Ryan Sprinkle Part 3 Introduction Chapter 10. Fourteenth Street Community Center Public Writing Project Molly Rideout and Klaire Smith Chapter 11. Collaborative Research in the Rendville, Ohio, Cemetery: Creativity and Reciprocity in Ethnography Lydia Smith and Jacob Kopcienski Chapter 12. Building Through Conversation Cristina Benedetti, Andrew Carter, Jenny Richards, and Kevin Bradbury Chapter 13. Multiyear Participatory Observation and Service Learning: Farm Books, Tender Letters, and Archival Internships with Hurricane Run Farm Barbara Bradbury and Cassie Rosita Patterson Chapter 14. Connecting to Place: Lessons LearnedSusan Eleuterio, Marcia Harris, Bridgette Compton, Kinsey Hall, Robin Hileman, and Amy BarnhartPoem 5. "Traces"Ryan Sprinkle Conclusion: The Ongoing Impacts of the Ohio Field School ProgramCassie Rosita Patterson and Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth AcknowledgmentsContributorsIndex

Cassie Rosita Patterson is a founder and the executive director of Southern Ohio Folklife, a nonprofit organization supporting, documenting, and networking folklife in southern Ohio. She received her PhD in English and folklore from The Ohio State University in 2015 and served as the associate director of the Center for Folklore Studies and the director of the Folklore Archives from 2012 to 2021. Patterson cocreated the Ohio Field School and served as codirector, archivist, and co-instructor (2016–19) and codirector and archivist (2020–21).Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth is the director and curator of the Baron and Ellin Gordon Art Galleries at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. He previously served as the director and archivist at the Center for Folklore Studies at The Ohio State University, where he was also a postdoctoral scholar and visiting assistant professor in the Department of Comparative Studies. He earned his PhD in anthropology from the University of Kentucky in 2019. His research and outreach focus on environmental folklore and economies of art and craft, especially in Appalachia and other global mountain regions. He has codirected and co-taught the Ohio Field School (2020, 2021, 2024).

"This important collection effectively illustrates the complexities of doing ethnography within contexts of university-community partnered, collaborative research and writing. Scholars and changemakers alike will find it both relevant and timely." - Luke Eric Lassiter, coauthor of I'm Afraid of That Water: A Collaborative Ethnography of a West Virginia Water Crisis

• Poem 1. "Quarantine Days" by Brian RichardsIntroductionCassie Rosita Patterson and Jasper Waugh-QuasebarthPart I. Placemaking Practices in Appalachian OhioPoem 2. "Chestnut oak in a stand of young beech"Brian RichardsPart I Introduction Chapter 1. Negotiating Power in Placemaking Efforts: Internal and External Place-Framing Discourse in Nonprofit and For-Profit Organizations Jordan WoodwardChapter 2. Recovering Black History in Portsmouth, Ohio: Digital Tools, "Guerrilla" Methods, and Public History from BelowAndrew Feight Chapter 3. Whose Monday Creek? Silences, Positionality, and Engaging Difference in the Ohio Field School Austin MilesChapter 4. Forest Stories Katherine BorlandPart II. Teaching and Practicing Collaborative Ethnography Poem 3. "Watch Hooded" Ryan SprinklePart II IntroductionChapter 5. Here and There: A Chinese Scholar's Fieldnotes in Scioto County Anping Luo Chapter 6. Through the Lens of Home: Three Perspectives on the Ohio Field School Sarah Craycraft, Sophia Enriquez, and Laura ThomasChapter 7. An "Unexpected" Fieldwork Story in Scioto CountyMeng Tan Chapter 8. Disabling Landscapes: A Conversation on Navigating Access and Fieldwork Sarah Dove and Ryan Patrus Chapter 9. Time and Place Along the Trail: The Spatial-Temporal Anxieties and Catharses of an Amateur OFS Ethnographer in Shawnee, Ohio E.P. DeCarlo Part III. Sustaining Collaboration Poem 4. "Just Past the Fork" Ryan Sprinkle Part 3 Introduction Chapter 10. Fourteenth Street Community Center Public Writing Project Molly Rideout and Klaire Smith Chapter 11. Collaborative Research in the Rendville, Ohio, Cemetery: Creativity and Reciprocity in Ethnography Lydia Smith and Jacob Kopcienski Chapter 12. Building Through Conversation Cristina Benedetti, Andrew Carter, Jenny Richards, and Kevin Bradbury Chapter 13. Multiyear Participatory Observation and Service Learning: Farm Books, Tender Letters, and Archival Internships with Hurricane Run Farm Barbara Bradbury and Cassie Rosita Patterson Chapter 14. Connecting to Place: Lessons LearnedSusan Eleuterio, Marcia Harris, Bridgette Compton, Kinsey Hall, Robin Hileman, and Amy BarnhartPoem 5. "Traces"Ryan Sprinkle Conclusion: The Ongoing Impacts of the Ohio Field School ProgramCassie Rosita Patterson and Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth AcknowledgmentsContributorsIndex