Weeknotes: 09/20/25-09/26/25
This Week:
- We had our opening reception for “Memorializing the Underground Railroad” and “The Study of One Thing”. Perhaps because it was Hartwick College’s “True Blue Weekend”, we had an astonishing turn-out; over 400 people over the course of the day. I’m really proud of the work we did and humbled that we can present both fascinating and important exhibits.
- I did some important work furthering my institution’s NAGPRA responsiblities.
- In MUST205, we talked about label writing, and I tried to impress upon my students the importance of short, emphatic museum labels!
- I did some planning work for this year’s “The Horror in the Museum”
- True Things:
- Good Things
- This weekend, I showed my kids “the Wizard of Oz”. It’s such an iconic and ubiquitous movie that I forgot how strange, surreal, and creepy it is.
- With the rain and the leaves changing, I’ve been getting comfortable with the arrival of the Fall. As part of that, I made a playlist called “Fall Colors” to accompany me while I work. I don’t use spotify, because it’s an evil company; this is just stuff in my collection, with some kind of tone or concept that suggested the Fall. Without further ado:
- Mansion on the Hill - Hank Williams
- All the world is Green - Tom Waits
- Belarus - Low
- Black Water - Timber Timbre
- By the Mark - Gillian Welch
- Corpus Christi Carol - Jeff Buckley
- Cross Bones Style - Cat Power
- Delia’s Gone - Johnny Cash
- Devil got my Woman - Skip James
- Fleurette Africaine - Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, and Max Roach
- Graveyard Blues - Roscoe Holcomb
- Guess I’m Doing Fine - Beck
- He Doesn’t Know Why - Fleet Foxes
- I can’t Hardly Stand it - The Cramps
- I’ll Be Rested (When the Roll is Called) - Blind Roosevelt Graves
- It Serves you Right to Suffer - John Lee Hooker
- Kerosene Hat - Cracker
- Louis Collins - Mississippi John Hurt
- Maggie’s Farm - David Grisman, John Hartford, and Mike Seeger
- Maundering - Bonnie “Prince” Billy
- Meat Grinder - Madvillain
- Mortality - The Old Sturbridge Singers
- Mother in the Graveyard - Anna & Elizabeth
- My Father’s House - Bruce Springsteen
- O Lord are you in need? - Palace Brothers
- Our Captain Cried All Hands - Doran
- Pretty Polly - Dock Boggs
- Raining in Baltimore - Counting Crows
- Roads - Portishead
- Rose Parade - Elliot Smith
- Spook - Galaxie 500
- Stop Breakin' Down Blues - Robert Johnson
- Sun Forest - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot - the Fairfield Four
- Tam Lin - Anais Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer
- The House Carpenter - Clarence Ashley
- The Werewolf Song - Michael Hurley
- Things Behind the Sun - Nick Drake
- Wake up - Cordelia’s Dad
- Who’s Gonna Save my Soul - Gnarls Barkley
