"'It's an odd feeling to have gone from a typical student to a 'historian' over the course of the two years I've been doing this learning,' says Nurse of his experience in Rhonan Mokriski's project-based learning course in public history [that] culminated in the Troutbeck Symposium, a two-day event celebrating the ignored, forgotten and erased stories of the free and enslaved African Americans who once called the Northwest Corner home."