Pathfinder – A Community Archaeology Project
Pathfinder’s community archaeology project tells the stories of the communities, places, and events related to the early and mid-20th century British Caribbean experience. This community archive project commemorates and celebrates the pioneering Pathfinders’ significant contribution to British culture. Specifically, Pathfinder uncovers the histories of the people known as the Windrush Generation. Pathfinder’s specific time period: 1939 – 1971. This timescale includes the official Windrush Generation period, and the World War II period.
Pathfinder - A Hero’s Welcome is a Windrush generation story.
The story, based on real events, is peppered with verbatim testimony from archival material associated with Afro-Caribbean British heritage. The story uncovers hidden layers of London’s cultural, historical, and geographical landscape. A Hero’s Welcome tells the story of a Jamaican-born RAF war hero’s post-WWII adventures. Answering the call for British Commonwealth citizens to help with Britain’s post-war regeneration, Barnsley Peterson boards the Empire Windrush for a new life in England. However, the hero’s welcome he expects is harder to come by than he anticipates.
