![]() Most recently, she’s piloted public programs that encourage people to meditate on the relationship between bird migrations and the Great Migration. As director of the Bronzeville Historical Society, she is not only passionate about African American history, part of her role also involves rallying her urban South Side community’s interest in nature. I’m not yet sure how these two subjects will come together, but Sherry was recommended to me as someone zealous about both. Sherry is the first person I’m interviewing for an essay on birdwatching and the Great Migration. ![]() The air conditioning inside blows strongly enough to fan my hair. Google Maps sent me to the old address-ten blocks north-and the only indication of the new office on 45th Street is an 8 1/2-by-11-inch printer-paper sign taped to a door on the bare building’s south face. I’ve come to meet her at her workplace, the Bronzeville Historical Society, located in a nondescript two-story brick building on the corner of 45th and King Drive on Chicago’s South Side. Sherry Williams-opening the door with an assaulting smile and waving away my apology with her hands-does not seem to care that I am late. ![]() Traveling from Chicago to South Carolina, she follows a migration path that brings birdwatching together with her own layered history. With the help of a historian, ornithologist, and birds themselves, Natalie Rose Richardson begins to embody a new quality of attention.
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