Quentin's Weeknotes 7/17/22-7/23/22

This Week:

• I finished reading “Beezus and Ramona” with my son. I have a faint memory of having it read to me by a teacher when I was a kid, and it was just as funny and sweet as I remember. My son liked it too!
• I finished reading Mike Davis' first book “Prisoners of the American Dream” which is his masterful labor history and analysis of the dark times of the Reagan era. It’s so vast in scope and knowledge that it’s hard to even summarze, but I genuinely appreciated the way he deftly reckoned with the complicated interlocking of race and class in his analysis. Davis is currently off treatment for cancer, and its hard to think of a more signifcant and incisive scholar, historian, and activist.
• We finished our formal inventory of the collections! Now we just have to find all of the things that are still listed as missing in our database, and we’re done!
• We held another crafternoons at the Museum, this time with the theme of “places”.
• My wife and I finished watching “Breaking Point”, a documentary about the Maidan revolution and the annexation of Crimea. It’s a powerful film, about everyday people in extra-ordinary and horrifying circumstances, that is made even more powerful by current events.