T-minus 11 hours until my co-worker from the Connecticut Humanities Council arrives at my apartment and we begin our carpool journey to Rochester!  According to Mapquest, we should be able to do the drive in 5.5 hours–6 or so if we stop for lunch.
(The link to Mapquest is there for all the other museum professionals who, [...]

Although I won’t be leaving for the AASLH annual meeting for another week, I’m looking forward to seeing old friends, making new ones, and catching up on news at historic sites and house museums.  Conferences and meetings like this are a great opportunity to discover what’s happening at historic sites across the country–it’s something that [...]