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Posts from ‘April, 2009’

What can museums learn from the decline of American newspapers?

(Cross-posted at BlogHer) Those of you who know me well know that my husband is an all-around, old-time, self-described “newspaperman.”  He’s done writing, editing, photography, graphic design, web design, telepimping (coordinating a newspaper’s classified-ad and voicemail-based dating service), and anything having to do with “putting the paper to bed”—that is, getting it to the printer.  [...]

Amy Clampitt meets Cal Academy

I went to the California Academy of Sciences one evening during the California Association of Museums conference, and as I was downloading the photos from the visit I was picking through The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt. The two streams began to merge for me, and I excerpted these fragments from the very long poem. [...]