The 2012 National Trust Conference in Spokane, Washington, offered a session on the topic "Telling Richer Stories of Place." This session challenged the cultural heritage audience to reach "beyond traditional preservation and interpretation practices to tell a more powerful story of heritage and place," particularly for those seeking to interpret sites that embody human diversity. With this in mind, visitors to Virginia City, Montana, a National Historic Landmark District (1961) and a National Register Historic District (1975), may soon have a glimpse into the everyday lives and human complexities that existed within some of the "little low cabins . . . stuck down on the hillside" that Ellen Gordon Fletcher, as a new arrival, observed in 1866.1 As the result of a grant-funded research project, one building, owned and occupied by multiple generations of African American pioneers, can better tell the story of perseverance, family and community bonds, and entrepreneur-ship among people of color in this gold mining town. It can do so not through restoration to a particular period but rather because it physically documents a long history of occupation and uses as a home for its owners and their boarders, a laundry, a restaurant, and a humble rental dwelling.
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机译：在华盛顿州斯波坎市举行的2012年全国信任会议上，主题为“讲述地方的丰富故事”的会议。本次会议向文化遗产受众发出挑战，要求他们“超越传统的保存和解释做法，以讲述一个更加有力的遗产和地方故事”，特别是对于那些试图解释体现人类多样性的遗址的人们。考虑到这一点，前往蒙大拿州弗吉尼亚市，国家历史地标区（1961）和国家历史遗迹区（1975）的游客很快就会瞥见其中一些“小”的日常生活和人类的复杂性1866.1年，埃伦·戈登·弗莱彻（Ellen Gordon Fletcher）作为新来者观察到，这是一个新的到来。作为一项资助研究项目的结果，由几代非裔美国人先驱拥有和占领的一栋建筑可以更好地讲述这个金矿开采小镇中有毅力，家庭和社区的纽带以及有色人种之间的企业家关系的故事。它不能通过恢复到特定时期来做到这一点，而是因为它实际上记录了长期的占领历史，并被用作所有者及其寄宿者的住所，洗衣房，饭店和简陋的出租房屋。
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