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Memorialization and Memory of Southern California’s St. Francis Dam Disaster of 1928
Ann C. Stansell | August 1st, 2014
The commemoration of disasters is a product of social, cultural, economic, and political forces in human society. Southern California’s largely unheard-of St. Francis Dam Disaster of 1928 provides an excellent opportunity to study this complex process of commemoration, engaging memory within difference frames of reference. In particular, evaluating how and why this man-made dam disaster has been forgotten on a state and national level, but tenuously remembered within the flood-zone, allows for consideration of the diversity of commemorative processes in the construction of memory and heritage related to major catastrophes.
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