Week 10 Blog

Background work 

This week was a very self fulfilling week for me. Thursday was full of maintenance work while Friday was more formal event planning and executing. 

Thursday was a very slow day in terms of guests. When I left, only one guest had arrived and it was to deliver some flash drives with information about the event that we had on Friday. Right after the guest left we had the maintenance crew come in to help us with replacing lightbulbs on the high ceiling. I helped out by holding the ladder, which was quite wobbly. After they helped us with the bulbs, we started to replace other bulbs ourselves. The bulbs that we ordered arrived damaged and only half of the bulbs were intact. Casey Wolf, a docent, was willing to put on gloves and deal with the installation of the bulbs herself. The curator, Brigitte, and myself helped out with the bulbs and eventually, the task was completed. 

After that bulb task was completed we had to play “museum Tetris” in the research room  to set up for the upcoming event. Casey and I were moving things all around the museum to try and make it as presentable as possible for the event. After we cleared out the area, Savannah came and set up the room with a projector. When the research room was finished we then started to embark on another light fixing operation. One of the exhibit lights were broken and we attempted to replace them. We replaced them but then realized that the figure itself had faulty wiring and had to take the loss on that specific project. 

The event!! 

The Friday event was nice and early. It was to further expand on Zora Neale Hurston’s presence in Sanford. We had the founder of the Tajiri school of performing arts come by and share her story on Zora Neale Hurston it was an incredible event that attracted professors from UNF. They are working on a project about Hurston and wanted to gain some insight on her influence in Sanford. I was in awe at how informative the event was and how nice everyone was. It was an uplifting event that gave me hope for humanities future. 

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