Hosted by Emerson Cram · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 11 episodes
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In the 1850s, county governments across the Midwest established what were then known as “poor farms.” These were residential institutions for county “dependents” which included those unable to work, for reasons of disability or otherwise. In the 1970s, Johnson County, Iowa supervisors initiated what would become a decades-long attempt to preserve their county poor farm’s historic structures. Their actions encouraged education and reflection of the history of mental health care. Disability Ecologies digs through the past of poor farm institutions and their vast connections in order to fathom their ongoing significance in our world of today. The now named Johnson County Historic Poor Farm reflects an intentional redesign of both land use and distribution of crops grown. To plan and implement the redesign necessitated an unlikely collection of shared interests, often at times in friction with each other. Join narrator Emerson Cram to explore r
Emerson Cram hosts Disability Ecologies, a society show with 11 episodes published.
Presenting: From Soil to Seeding Local Foods Content: Main Voice(s): Emerson Cram Special Guests: Jason Grimm Malik Salsberry Ilsa DeWald April Lawyer Felicia Pieper Scott Koepke Highlights Join Emerson as they talk with
Presenting: From Soil to Seeding Local Foods Content: Main Voice(s): Emerson Cram Special Guests: Scott KoepkeCarly McAndrews Alfred Matiyabo Ilsa DeWald Rod Sullivan Jason Grimm Highlights This chapter brings the story
Presenting: A Witness Tree on the Land Content: cemeteries and death care, the politics of restoration, land development, logics of “cure” Featuring: Main Voice(s): Emerson Cram Special Guests: V Fixmer-Oraiz Rod Sulliva
Presenting: A Witness Tree on the Land Content: forced removal, colonialism, Main Voice(s): Emerson Cram Special Guests: Geoff Mouming Chant Eicke Highlights This chapter tells the story of the Historic Poor Farm’s land
Presenting: Dignity Delayed Content: historic records Main Voice(s): Emerson Cram Special Guests: Mary Helen Kennerly, Seen & Heard Facilitator, DAC Member Becky Dewing, Johnson County Historic SocietySupervisor V Fixmer
CHAPTER THREE, PART ONE Presenting: Dignity Delayed Content: discrimination, medicaid cuts Featuring: Main Voice(s): Emerson Cram Special Guests: Mary Helen Kennerly Highlights This chapter tells the story of how the Dis
Presenting: Poor Farm Pathways Content: insanity diagnosis; eugenics; Bedlam; Snake Pit; “wellness farms,” animal confinement Main Voice(s): Emerson Cram Special Guests: Julie Watkins, Events Manager, Johnson County Hist
Poor Farm Pathways, Part One Content: “idiotic,” asylums; confinement; “insanity law” Main Voice(s): Emerson Cram Special Guests: Julie Watkins, Events Manager, Johnson County Historic Poor FarmMichael Hoenig, Project Co
Presenting: History is a Story, Part Two Content: asylum, "insane," cemetery Main Voice(s): Emerson Cram Guests: Supervisor V Fixmer-Oraiz, Board of Supervisors of Johnson County, Iowa (2022-present), & former Project Ma
Presenting: History is a Story, Part One Content : "insanity," asylums, eugenics Main Voice(s): Emerson Cram Special Guests: Supervisor V Fixmer-Oraiz, Board of Supervisors of Johnson County, Iowa (2022-present), and for
Featuring: Main Voice(s): Emerson Cram Special Guests: Malik Salsberry, Farm Manager, GROW Johnson CountyScott Koepke, Garden Bridge Outreach, and co-founder of GROW Johnson CountyClaire Trettin, 2025 Seasonal Farm Appre
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