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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">If you have students (or colleagues) who think that technical communication can’t be fun or festive, direct their attention to the three trail maps of “Witch Houses” created by Friends of Residential Treasures:
Los Angeles (<a href="https://www.fortla.org">https://www.fortla.org</a>). <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The trail maps include photographs of the exotic houses in question (interiors and exteriors) as well as facts and figures, explanations of architectural features, stories about the houses, and newspaper clippings
about notorious residents or activities related to the houses.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Witch Houses:
<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/12Tlg44a17xbqIn8K1k9QwzTQpxC4_oiT/view">
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12Tlg44a17xbqIn8K1k9QwzTQpxC4_oiT/view</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Witch Houses 2:
<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dGHFF1_4OmtbTBlHXT1ikCYxXA6dZyS5/view">
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dGHFF1_4OmtbTBlHXT1ikCYxXA6dZyS5/view</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Witch Houses 3:
<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PfeNGid5VhhRvbV8V_vRl_ea8VG9SI-2/view">
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PfeNGid5VhhRvbV8V_vRl_ea8VG9SI-2/view</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The trail maps also include rules: for example, “Don’t be a Trail Trasher! Take only pictures
<i>of the outside</i>! And leave only footprints <i>on public sidewalks</i>!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">FORT: LA also offers trails maps on serious subjects, including<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Civil Rights Houses:
<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fytM9JJEuLLHqJfDam_Y5AFBaxPM8HTH/view">
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fytM9JJEuLLHqJfDam_Y5AFBaxPM8HTH/view</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• The Lasting Effects of the HOLC Redlining Map:
<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rK8NJeCbBXdcPdnh0gTMjltndipsdtlw/view">
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rK8NJeCbBXdcPdnh0gTMjltndipsdtlw/view</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Postwar Japanese American Architects:
<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VRgfBN0maBtjaeoVOdW2ic7o802Njn8n/view?usp=sharing">
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VRgfBN0maBtjaeoVOdW2ic7o802Njn8n/view</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Your students might be inspired to develop trail maps of salient houses in their local communities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Sam<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Sam Dragga<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Professor Emeritus<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Texas Tech University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">sam.dragga@ttu.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">1-806-543-6099<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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