Quentin's Weeknotes 10/30/22-11/5/22

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This Week:

On Sunday, we held the Museum’s Halloween storytelling event “The Horror in the Museum”. It was tons of fun, and a great Halloween tradition.
We took the kiddos out Trick or Treating, and to the Oneonta Halloween Parade.
I made the Museum available for an archaeology class exercise on typology.
I concluded some paperwork for the week-long residency of Jason Medicine Eagle Martinez. His installation “Hybrid: The Kiva Show” in the Herzog gallery is really stunning, and I’m proud and humbled to have facilitated it.
I did some collections research on an old and poorly catalogued collection in the Museum.
I attended the College’s DEI-Indigenous affairs committee meeting.
The Museum screened another documentary about Rock and Roll as part of our programming for “Front Row Center: Icons of Rock Blues and Soul”
I finished reading “Voyage of the Dogs” by Greg Von Eekhout. It’s a “lost in space” type story about a group of dogs on a space mission to a distant planet who wake up from hibernation to discover the humans have left. It was very exciting if a bit tense, especially for dog lovers!
In honor of his passing, I tracked down a copy of Mike Davis' astonishing short work “Buda’s Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb”.