Weeknotes: 09/22/24-09/28/24

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This Week:

We went up to our friends' cabin in St. Lawrence County, and stayed overnight with them. It’s always tiring to stay in a new place with our kids, but the scenery and the cabin and the company were absolultely delightful. Thanks, Tracy and James!
I finished reading Lisa Goldstein’s “Ivory Apples”, which is a wonderfully dark modern fairy-tale, wicked step-mother and all. The ending left me a little cold, but the ride to get there was genuinely great.
In FLP102, we talked about Greek temple collecting and the origins of Museum tourism, as well as cabinets of curiousity in the middle ages.
We had a great meeting that will move forward our goal of creating an Indigenous artist residency here at the Museum. Stay tuned! I also did some work with the College’s Indigenous DEI Committee to plan some Indigenous People’s Day events.
Our friend Ian, who directed the award-winning film “A Bullet Pulling Thread” came down to screen his film at SUNY Oneonta. Alanna organized everything for the screening, which was a great success, and we got to spend some time with our good friend.