Weeknotes: 5/28/23 - 6/3/23

This Week:

• We ended up having a four-day weekend over memorial day, so we did a bunch of fun stuff, travelling to Albany and Cooperstown, doing some gardening, and going to the movies. Guardians of the Galaxy 3 was the fun, popcorn movie that I wanted.
• At the Museum, we welcomed our summer graduate intern Lara, and immediately put her to work on some exhibit prep and some program prep.
• After multiple weekends of work, we finished repainting our garage.
• I finished reading David Stradling’s interesting “Making Mountains: New York City and the Catskills” and wrote up some notes. Stradling draws on Raymond Williams' masterful “The Country and the City” as well as the American tradition of environmental history pioneered by William Cronon. It’s as a good of a guide as I’ve found to the complex history, development, and romantic imagery that the Catskills have embodied and continue to embody.
• If all goes well, Dominic will finally have his 10th birthday party tomorrow, going with six of his friends to see “Spiderman: Across the Spiderverse”. I’ll be there, but only to chaperone, and not at all because I loved the first movie and am hearing great things about how good the sequel is supposed to be.
• I added a list of books that I’d like to read to my wishlist. If you’re feeling like buying me a present, pick something off the list and then go order it at The Green Toad Bookstore or at Bookshop.org!