1. Talking about what you did or What Vernacular Architecture did to me Reading and Writhing

2. Inching along How has this class advanced your knowledge of buildings and the context of their use? Do you look at buildings differently?

3. Having spent 14 weeks with the word, what is vernacular? What meanings does the word conjure for you?

4. Is vernacular architecture? A field of study? A way of valuing the unvalued? The last refuge for knaves and scoundrels? What are some cognates of vernacular?

5. How might documentation be different What is different about documentation by historic preservation types and Vernacular Architecture scholars?

6. Is this a professional stance for you? Professional organizations with emphasis on explanation of local manifestation. Re-cycle your documentation. Don’t depend on someone else. Network with others practicing in world of documentation. Ability to ask for comparable documentation Ability to consider the interacting domains. Art History Architecture History and American Studies Historic Preservation Landscape Studies Popular Culture

7. Absorb, de-construct, re-combine Vernacular scholarship at its core is outsider perspective within naturalized paradigms. To be effective as scholarship it is necessary to understand the explanation forms as they have been articulated. Read/listen for the rhetoric (contingent) statements implicit in the presentation of fact and theory. Re-invest the rhetoric with alternative facts or weighting factors. Speak out, write out.