Weeknotes: 10/20/24-10/26/24

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This Week:

In FLP 102, we taught the students about the history of comic book collecting, John Bloom’s fascinating study of Baseball Card Collectors, and hosted a visit from Hartwick College’s mental wellness office. We also turned our student’s 7-week/mid-term grades.
Most of my week was taken up with installing our newest exhibit “With That Shadow Over Them: Constructing Catskill Reservoirs, Remembering Home”. It’s a gorgeous exhibit, full of rich and complicated history, and I’m really proud of the way that it came together. The opening reception was Thursday evening, beginning with a talk by a really excellent talk by Anna Lehr Mueser, my co-curator with Rachel Gleiberman, Hartwick’s archivist.