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Peerless Rockville launches AAPI history project; commissioner highlights Red Brick Courthouse history
Summary
Peerless Rockville announced a call for a researcher to begin an AAPI history project focused initially on Chinese and Taiwanese communities; Commissioner Michael Goldfinger also presented a historical overview of the Red Brick Courthouse during the Sept. 18 meeting.
At the Sept. 18 meeting of the Rockville Historic District Commission, Nancy Picard, executive director of Peerless Rockville Historic Preservation, said the organization has issued a call for a qualified historian or researcher to begin a project documenting Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) history in Rockville, starting with Chinese and Taiwanese populations.
Picard said the project will begin with demographic and documentary research, then move to gathering oral histories and community stories once…
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