Weeknotes: 02/23/25-03/01/25

This Week:

• We hosted a talk by historian Harry Bradshaw Matthews about Frederick Douglass' connections to Oneonta. It was a fascinating talk, and showed how Oneonta was intimately connected with the Underground Railroad and the Abolitionist struggle.
• In MUST204, I taught the students how we accession objects into the collection, and also talked them through the NAGPRA repatriation process.
• I responded to a NAGPRA claim on human remains and funerary objects affirmatively, and we transferred legal control, moving us towards getting these ancestors home.
• We gave a tour to SUNY Oneonta’s Museum studies intro students. They were delightful guests!
• I didn’t buy anything on Friday, and I hope you didn’t either.
• True Things:
  • What Felt Impossible Became Possible
  • The She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything