Weeknotes: 06/06/26-06/12/26

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This Week:

I made some good plans for our Fall indigenous artists residency, and for the return of our Indigenous collection to display. We also planned some kids programs for the summer.
We welcomed a visit from the SUNY Oneonta/Hartwick Pine Lake Archaeological Field School. It’s always fun to talk to archaeology students, as a former member of the cloth myself.
I finished reading Sean Ferrell’s “The Man in the Empty Suit” and wrote up some notes. Overall, I found the premise amazing and the delivery bewildering and unsatisfying. A time travel novel that hand-waives away causality problems, and a protagonist with ambiguous and seemingly contradictory motivations made for a book that left me feeling deflated.
Sunday, we took the kids to see The Sheep Detectives which was kind of bland to my taste, but charming and sweet.
Now that last.fm has returned from a long exile at CBS, I fired up my scrobbler. Here’s what I listened to last week
I bought a copy of Old 97s “Graveyard Whistling”