Joan Bacchus Maynard was an American artist, author, community organizer, and preservationist. She was one of the founding members of a late 1960s grassroots group to preserve the legacy of Weeksville
Maynard c. 1977
Weeksville Heritage Center
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The Weeksville Heritage Center is a historic site on Buffalo Avenue between St. Marks Avenue and Bergen Street in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York City. It is dedicated to the preservation of Weeksvi
Joan Maynard (preservationist)
…and Patricia Johnson. Maynard later became the director of the Society for the Preservation of Weeksville and Bedford Stuyvesant. It later became Weeksville Heritage Center. She was involved in the preservation of Weeksville for over 25 years, to restore the legacy which was missing from maps of the area. Maynard and Gwen…
Hunterfly Road House, August 2009
Image from exhibit at Weeksville Heritage Center about the newspaper publication, The Freedman's Torchlight, published by the African Civilization Society
Exhibition artwork in Weeksville lobby - side left view