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Street Road
725 Street Road Cochranville, PA 19330 

The Little Free Library
1016B Gap Newport Pike 
Cochranville, PA 19330
Seven Million Acres /
Pride of Place  
4/13 - 9/30/2019

The publication, 'Seven Million Acres, Pride of Place', contains all entries and is available to purchase at Street Road, or online, here. It is also available to borrow from Street Road's Little Free Library.

Closing reception and publication launch at Street Road
9/28/2019, 1-5p

Opening reception at Street Road
5/18/2019, 1-7p
Anyone with a connection to this territory was invited to participate, and was asked these prompts: Do you have an object that has pride of place in your home? Maybe a special photograph, a favorite painting, a keepsake, a trophy, or something completely unexpected?
The areas surrounding Street Road and their constitutive communities (immediately including Eastern Lancaster and Western Chester Counties in Pennsylvania) are often not included in arts and cultural mappings. ​This project seeks to explore this situation and to consider the situation of arts and culture gaps in geographies, particularly with respect to interstitial areas such as our own.

This exhibition, following on from and expanding our 2016 project 7000 acres: a residents' history of Londonderry Township​ is by residents of 'our area': it takes in objects important to people in our surrounding communities. What has pride of place for us, as individuals, and collectively, and how can this help us to think about place and our relationships in it? To think through these questions, the project centers Street Road and our location, Cochranville, PA, and takes in a ‘place’ of 7 million acres (a radius of about 59 miles), expanding and our practice of highlighting the complex material culture of 'here'. With this partially arbitrary mapping, major cities in our region fall at the periphery, and we continue to consider the questions: what makes up our region?, any region?, and what is our place in it?

Photographs and a description of why the object is significant for its owner, are all included in a 2019 publication, Seven Million Acres / Pride of Place.
RELATED ​EXHIBITION MATERIALS AND PROGRAMMING  ​
Listen to our interview about the Seven Million Acres project with the Artifactual Journey Podcast here and on iTunes.
RECONSIDERING PLACE, Common Field Philly 4/27/2019
Street Road will host this session at the Common Field convening, with participants Fawn Daphne Plessner, Emelie Chhangur - AGYU (Art Gallery York University), and Matthew Fluharty of Art of the Rural. We'll make some trouble for thinking in binary as regards framings like ‘urban’, ‘suburban’, and ‘rural’. This will be recorded and re-played at Street Road later this summer, as part of our programming for Seven Million Acres: Pride of Place. Date and time of screening TBA. General information about Common Field and the Philly convening info here.

Reconsidering Place: troubling the urban/rural binary for artist practices and organizations, a Report from the Field
The field of art is framed by a normative belief that urban spaces constitute a ‘center’ of cultural endeavors and that rural spaces are at the ‘periphery’. This imaginary is increasingly challenged by concepts that ambiguate conventional understandings of the ‘urban’ and the ‘rural’, as well as framings such as the 'suburban' or 'exurban'.
Such designations do not capture the variegated social and cultural spaces that have become visible in recent decades, comprised as they are of axes of relationships and mobilities amongst multiple places and that also intersect with online spaces. Such designations also serve to reify place through colonial vocabularies and concepts and thereby reinforce not only the racialization and industrialization of space but also leave out important indigenous concepts and relations to place. They also sustain immobilities, even as mobility and access is increasingly assumed.
This session draws out speakers’ and attendees’ perspectives to examine working in multiple in-betweens, aiming to raise new questions about the cogency of claims to centrality and marginality.
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VISITING
Please check our website or social media before visiting as our hours are subject to change.

Street Road HOURS
Fridays and Saturdays from 11am-3pm and by appointment.

Little Free Library HOURS
Mondays 6-9pm (beginning Jan 16, 2023)
​Thursdays 12-4pm
Fridays 10am-2pm
Saturdays 10am-2pm
and by appointment.

Our Little Free Library outdoor boxes at both sites are open 24/7 and are regularly restocked.

Please call 610-869-4712 or email to set up visits outside our regularly scheduled hours. 
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We are currently seeking volunteers for both locations: email us to enquire. We look forward to hearing from you!

DIRECTIONS
to Street Road here. 
to The Little Free Library here.

A word about 'here':
We acknowledge that we are on the ancestral lands of the Lenape, original people of the mid-Atlantic area, forced west by British and US governments. Most Delaware Indian tribe descendants are now located in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario. Lenni Lenapes in Pennsylvania are not officially recognized as tribes by the United States, though an estimated 5000 Lenape Nation descendants live in the Delaware River area. We pay respects to the Lenape people both past and present. Please consider the many legacies of violence, displacement and settlement that form part of our collective histories. While increased public recognition of these legacies and processes of redress such as Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission are positive steps, concrete focus on return of land and land rights remains a distant horizon.
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