by Quentin Lewis

Weeknotes: 8/2/25-8/8/25

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This Week:

  • Alanna and I watched “Force Majeure”, a dark and strange franco-scandanavian comedy about a family who goes on a ski trip, and what happens when they survive an avalanche. It was funny, and uncomfortable, and ambigious, but insightful in ts own bizarre way.
  • I am zeroing in on finishing the design and planning work for an upcoming exhibit called “Memorializing the Underground Railroad: The Harry Bradshaw Matthews Collection”. This is going to be a great exhibit of books, images, and objects about one of the greatest radical social movements of all time, and its connections to Otsego County.
  • I picked up my son in Erie after a week in Iowa with my folks. We got this week with him, but next week he’s off to Camp Stomping Ground. How the time flies….
  • I did some work moving forward our bi-campus plans for indigenous people’s day celebrations.
  • We said goodbye to our summer intern and our summer Museum assistant. Thanks, Nerissa and Ethan, for all your hard work.
  • We went to the Glimmerglass opera house to see their performance of “The Odyssey”, a youth opera. It was fun and silly and the kids loved it.