Finally Blogging
So i realized that I never signed in to write in the blog, but just read what everyone else wrote… so here goes!
My two shifts were spent exclusively with Kimberly, first with her at the off-site facility, and then in the research room. I spent my time exclusively with one box of Gin, or Young Louie’s pictures, as many others of you have done. These pictures were of a few things: A flood in Santa Maria in 1952, a parade in SLO in the early 1960’s, three sets of wedding photos, graduation pictures, and a set of photo’s of Young Louie’s birthday celebrations.
These were the most interesting photos I dealt with were the ones with the birthday celebrations. It seems Young Louie was born on the same day as two other fellows in the area, and they celebrated their birthdays together. There was a picture of a birthday cake with a stork who had a list of their three names, each crossed off. Ah, 1960’s humor at its finest.
Also like many of you had said, The iPod came in handy today, as writing numbers on the back of photo’s can be pretty mind numbing work. The new Radiohead album is great…. I had to go home at lunch to recharge the batteries to last the afternoon.
In the afternoon, I worked with Shannon on creating a way to preserve arrowheads found around SLO county. didn’t really have much to do with our class, but is just an example of the overwhelming amount and varying kinds of things that the society preserves for display. A Native American exhibit on the Chumash would be very interesting… another ethnic group who has been swept under the rug in this county.
Bryan Wheeler
