Weeknotes: 7/23/23-7/29/23

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This Week:

My supervisor and I drove one of the Renaissance paintings in our collection to the Williamstown Art Conservation Center for assessment and eventual conservation. The Museum is putting together a grant to pay for this, and an assessment is the first step. I had sworn that I had been to Williamstown before, but while we were there I didn’t remember a thing…
Still working my way through Leguin’s The Books of Earthsea. I just finished reading Tehanu, which was absolutely devastating and powerful. I’m also reading through A Wizard of Earthsea with my ten year old, and he and I are loving it.
In the Museum, we are still putting the finishing touches on the human figure exhibit. We had some trouble with our interpretive labels warping with the high humidity, so we reprinted them and tried a different adhesive. Fingers crossed!
My son and I got him packed up for a week-long trip to visit his grandparents in Iowa next week. He’s really excited!
We were planning on camping at Gilbert Lake State Park last weekend, but for a variety of reasons, we ended up just taking the day and going to Chenango Valley State Park for a swim, picnic, and beach frolic.
We had our last Crafternoons! This week’s theme was “music” and we had kids making and decorating rain sticks, tambourines, cardboard guitars, and more. I love this event and it’s so wonderful to be able to see it all come together.