Today’s guest artist: Kathy. To start this entry I should do a quick update on how Marty and I have been faring these past couple of weeks with our Anchorage-Stuttgart partnership. Working in our offices and communicating by e-mail we continue to make progress. Using the great digital images Marty…
Today’s entry is by Arlene. I’m feeling a little self-indulgent today as my vacation time is coming to a rapid end. Since Nicole has shared some of her favorite excerpts from the Edwin Glenn diary, I’d like to share mine. Keep in mind, I haven’t read the whole diary. I…
Today’s guest artist: Nicole. An early global warming advocate, as recorded by Captain Edwin F. Glenn, Oct 21, 1898: I told him [Hanmore] of the country traversed by me and particularly of the Madanuska [sic: Matanuska] Valley as an agricultural location which he concurred it but seemed to think that…
Today’s guest artist: Mariecris. Growing up as a little girl I loved watching musicals! I hoped one day to go to New York City and see a real Broadway musical. While I lived in Boston I only made two trips to New York and did not see one play. (Sadly…
Today’s guest artist: Nicole. Merriam-Webster’s defines talebearer as “one that spreads gossip or rumors; also: tattletale,” while the Oxford English dictionary frames it as “one who officiously carries reports of private matters to gratify malice or idle curiosity.” Captain Glenn frequently recorded the daily doings (i.e. gossip) of early settlers…
Believe it or not, but those course title abbreviations that show up on your transcript are actually read by a number of different people who are deliberately seeking to make them as understandable as possible! But sometimes that is almost impossible when the course title is complicated or has a…
One of the perils of getting student help is that eventually they find jobs. Elsewhere. And while we’re thrilled that they’re achieving one of the goals of getting a college education: bettering themselves, the problem is that we’ve grown to like having them around and occasionally their projects end up…
Today’s guest artist: Mariecris. Sometimes I like to think that archival research is like an archaeology dig. An archaeologist may find clues in maps, newspaper articles, books, historical documents, previous archaeological digs/discoveries to determine where would be a good place to dig. Sometimes they set up a grid on the…
Today’s guest artist: Mariecris. One of my favorite parts of collections are kodachrome slides. Kodachrome slides are brilliant Technicolor-like 35mm transparencies. Not only are they beautiful they have the reputation of lasting a very, very long time. In the photography world, that means a lot. Pictures fade, especially color photographs.…
Today’s guest artist: Nicole. The following are some of Nicole’s favorite excerpts from Edwin F. Glenn’s journal from the 1898 expedition through the Cook Inlet area. Lt. Glenn, while clearly writing his journal with the intent of compiling his formal military report later, occasionally lets a little of his sense…
