Weeknotes: 2/12/23-2/18/23

This Week:

• In MUST204: Collections Management, we talked about Museum Nomenclature, and condition reporting.
• I continued to work with students to finish our new exhibits on Micronesia, and Margaret Huntington Boehner.
• I did guest lectures or tours of the Museum for courses in Museum Studies, English, and Political Science.
• My wife and I finished watching the first season of Welcome To Wrexham, a show about the complex relationship between English football teams and the communities in which they reside. When I first heard about it, I understood it to be kind of a fish-out-of-water comedy about two Hollywood actors (Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mcelhenney) who buy a Welsh Football team without knowing anything about it. But the beating heart of the show is really the community of Wrexham itself, ravaged by deindustrialization and neoliberal dismantling, and for whom Football is one of the few forms of civic agreement and engagement. In that sense, it’s a rich and heartfelt show, and honestly some of the best parts are when Reynolds and Mcelhenney get out of the way and let the townspeople of Wrexham speak for and about themselves.
• I am slowly but surely moving my way towards a static website.