Weeknotes: 05/23/26-05/29/26

This Week:

• The front half of the week was a long Memorial Day weekend, which we used to visit Toronto. We avoided the rainy weather by visiting the Royal Ontario Museum, seeing some friends, and then, when the sun came out, paying a visit to the Toronto zoo. What a wonderful city, and a wonderful way to spend some time with my family.
• While in Toronto, I paid a visit to “The Great Escape”, a small bookshop on Kingston Road near my mother-in-law’s house. I loaded up on books there (I almost always do!), purchasing Randall Jarrell’s thoughtful children’s fantasy “The Animal Family”, which I read quickly, and Donald Allen’s legendary anthology “The New American Poetry 1945-1960” which I have been savoring and reading slowly.
• Back at the Museum, we formally took possession of the objects that we accessioned last week, including a massive collection of modern Native American crafts that is both daunting and exciting.
• We had some car trouble that took time and money to deal with
• In the small bits of time between everything else, I worked on repatriation stuff, exhibit planning, and grant reporting.