2025

weeknotes teaching museum books

This Week:

In MUST252, we had two guest speakers. First Fabian Martinez, from the Southern Ute Tribal Museum, spoke about his research on residential schools. Then, Fawn Sault, band councillor for the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, talked about her work on environmental policy and food sustainability.
In MUST204, we continued our work on cataloging glassware from the Hartwick Seminary site.
On Wednesday, we unveilled our recently conserved painting by Andrea Previtali. The folks at the Williamstown Art Conservation center did a fantastic job.
It was Ballet recital week, and Hazel worked really hard to get ready for her recital on Friday and Saturday.
I was a guest lecturer in SUNY Oneonta’s Introduction to Archaeology class, where I spoke about the African Burial Ground in New York City. It’s a project that continues to inspire me and many other archaeologists decades later, and I tried to do it justice.
Hazel and I finished reading “Ramona Quimby, Age 8”. This isn’t my favorite of these books, but the whole series is so wonderful and thoughtful. It’s a great prompt for all kinds of wonderful conversations about emotions, expectations, growing up, and more.