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The Sixth Year 2011 - 2012
The Timeline Project 1970 - 1990  

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Timeline 1970 - 1990an innovative collage approach to learning history using popular culture, technology, Xerox and Kodak, ARPANET to the Internet, the first email, HBO, Shirley Chisholm, Watergate, the Post-it note, the MRI, the laser printer, Apple, "The Godfather," the VCR, Midtown Tower Hotel closing, Sandra Day O'Connor, AIDS, Polar Fleece and Donkey Kong, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Marketplace Mall, Sally Ride, CD's, Domain Name System, Fall of the Berlin Wall, and Teresa D. Johnson, was created by incarcerated youth at Monroe County Jail working with a NYSLC writer and scholar, a NYSLC visual artist, and Rochester City School District teachers. An intern from St. John Fisher College assisted. 
Timeline 1970 - 1990 was made possible with funding from The Guido and Ellen Palma Foundation, The Marie C. and Joseph C. Wilson Foundation, and the Mary S. Mulligan Charitable Trust.