Entries by Jennifer Brundage

Festivals everywhere!

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I love hearing about all the festivals taking place at Affiliates – please send pictures!  Here’s some highlights I’ve been following recently: Historic Bethlehem Partnership’s 22nd Annual Blueberry Festival took place last weekend… yum!  (Read the local review.)  This year’s Festival included colonial craft and  Moravian cooking demonstrations, and new this year, an antique auto show, and lots more […]

The Search for a New Secretary

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Yesterday, Smithsonian staff were invited to a town hall meeting to share our views on the ideal qualities of the next Smithsonian Secretary.  The chairman of the search committee, Regent Alan Spoon, ran the meeting with Regent Roger Sant, and members of the executive search firm hired for the task. The discussion was lively, as one […]

Mother Earth Celebration

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I often find myself so proud to work at the Smithsonian. That was especially true yesterday, when I joined the crowds at the National Museum of the American Indian’s Mother Earth celebration to see Al Gore kick off the Live Earth concert series in North America. As I listened to Mohawk and Cheyenne elders describing Native philosophies […]

Summer at SI

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On the education front, several recent gatherings have illuminated interesting research being done in the fields of online learning and museums’ fostering of critical thinking skills.  Check it out – Goode lecture on Fostering Critical Thinking in Museums;  Guggenheim’s research on literacy through the arts; and EduWeb’s Learning Styles & Online Interactives.  Who doesn’t LOVE the Smithsonian Folklife […]

Spring 2007

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Can you believe it’s May already?! Here’s a sampling of some fun Smithsonian activity from this spring. Who Knew? Historian Heather Ewing just published The Lost World of James Smithson, which fills in a lot of the details of his life. The book reveals “not the dour recluse historians had once thought Smithson to be but an […]

Webby Awards

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Kudos to our Smithsonian colleagues who are nominated for a webby award, hailed as “the Oscars of the Internet.” Please go online and vote for them at peoplesvoice.webbyawards.com!!!  Nominees: Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies SmithsonianEducation.org is the Institution’s central education website. – Nominated for Best Cultural Institution Website (Society category) – Selected as […]