Weeknotes: 3/2/24-3/9/24

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This Week:

In MUST204, we talked compared the collections policies of a bunch of other Museums from the US and UK, learned how to use Pastperfect to find objects in the Museum, and learned how to label objects.
I paid visits to both the Delaware County Historical Association, as well as Gilbert Lake State park, to plan upcoming exhibits, displays and collaborations with the Yager Museum. Good stuff on the horizon, but lots to do!
I showed my daughter how to play Minecraft, and we built an ocean-side house with lots of cool underground tunnels together.
My wife and I watched a bit of Cardinal, a gritty noir set in the cold wastes of northern Ontario.
I finished reading A Cosmology of Monsters by Shaun Hamill. It’s the kind of character-rich horror that I usually like, but I’m famous for disliking horror and weird-fiction that tip their hand too deeply and I had the same response to this book. It gave me just enough exposition to and explanation to take the shine off what was otherwise a pretty haunting study of family tragedy, wrapped in a love-letter to horror culture.
My son and I finished reading C.S. Lewis’s “The Last Battle” which was kind of a stinker of a book, if I’m honest, and a real let-down for a series that I quite liked, and quite liked reading aloud with my kid.
I spent a lot of this week working on a NAGPRA Repatriation grant. I’m within striking distance of finishing, and hope to get it out in the next week or two.