Quentin's Weeknotes 9/5/21-9/11/21

This Week:

• In MUST251, we talked about fluted points, the peopling of North America, and the dangers and possibilities of inferring behaviors and communities from single objects.
• I spoke to students in MUST203: Exhibit Prep and Design about the possibility of making an exhibit panel about our recent repatriation work.
• My son started the 3rd grade. I’m really proud of him.
• I read Richard Corben’s comic mini-series Rat God and Caitlin Kitteridge’s Supernatural police-procedural/horror Coffin Hill. The former was a delightfully strange and grotesque Lovecraft homage. The latter was okay, but didn’t really fire me up. It jumped through time quite a bit, in ways that made it hard to follow, and many of the moving parts of the plot, though interesting on their own, didn’t come together for my tastes.
• We set up two small exhibits of Yager Museum materials at the Greater Oneonta Historical Society. These included objects collected by Louis Van Ess and Willard Yager, as well as the now permanent panels from the 2017 exhibit Black Lives at Hartwick Then and Now. We also spoke to some students from Hartwick Flightpath courses who visited GOHS and talked about the exhibits.
• I bought albums on bandcamp by Superwolf and Low