2025

weeknotes teaching museum indigenous books

This Week:

I finished reading Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Pacific Edge”, from his Three Californias series. It was entertaining melodrama, set against the backdrop of an ambiguously utopian world following political and environmental crisis.
Alanna and I watched “Ludwig” which is both entertaining and silly.
In MUST204, the students undertook a group evaluation which serves as a kind of coda to their hands-on learning in the first half of the course. Next week, they start the class project, which will be continuing (finishing?) the cataloging of the material from Hartwick Seminary.
In MUST252, I taught the students about Clovis points, and the question of the peopling of North America, and the alternatives that have come both from within archaeology, and from Native people themselves.
I spent a lot of time trying to get our exhibit “Discovering Our Place” up and running.
If all goes as planned, we’ll be screening “Lake of Betrayal” tonight, with the three filmmakers answering questions.
Dominic and I finished reading “The Desperate Adventures of Zeno and Alya” which is a funny, thoughtful book about friendship, sickness, and banana nut muffins.