Weeknotes: 12/6/25-12/12/25
This Week:
- It’s final exam week and my exhibit prep students finished installing their displays, and I submitted grades. It’s been interesting and even fun teaching this class in a formal way, and giving me an opportunity to put all I’ve learned about exhibit installation to good use.
- This Friday and Saturday, we’re having Community Days at the Museum, with tours, snacks, and activities. It’s a great way to bring the Museum’s Fall season to an end.
- I did some work on our Spring arts camp. I also made some phone calls to get donations and advice for the Phil Young Indigenous artists residency.
- True Things:
- It looks like the Lumbee tribe will be receiving formal Federal recognition, despite some opposition from other tribes. To catch myself up, I read the mighty Julian Brave Noisecat’s fascinating and sympathetic portrait of the Lumbee from 2022.
- Good Things:
- I finished reading Tim Powers' “The Anubis Gates”, a rollicking adventure story featuring time-travel, egyptian magic, and 19th century historical figures. It was as weird and inventive of a fairly conventional adventure novel as I’ve ever read.
- I’ve been trying to get into the Christmas spirit, and music is a big part of how I do that. Here’s a Christmas playlist, at least for what I’m rocking this year:
- Steeleye Span - Gaudete
- Nowell Sing We Clear - Chariots
- Finest Kind - Shepherds Arise
- Sufjan Stephens - The Friendly Beasts
- Low - Just Like Christmas
- The Weepies - All that I want
- Mike Doughty - I hear the bells (but the live version, not the studio)
- Jeff Buckley - Corpus Christi Carol
- John Fahey - Medley: Hark, the Herald Angels Sing/ O Come All Ye Faithful
- John Denver and the Muppets - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
- Anonymous 4 - Alleluya! A Nywe Werk is Come on Honde!
- Waverly Consort - Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland
- The Kingston Trio - Riu, Riu Chiu
- Chumbawamba - The Cutty Wren
- Nowell Sing We Clear - Rolling Downward
