It has been a busy week. And the weather cold. I did not get out much, let alone with my camera.
On Saturday, instead of getting out to photograph, I went to work, looking for a book that I’d left there but needed. I currently have three offices (a long story). And I visited two of them before I found the book.
While making my way to my office in Heritage Hall, the archive where I am the interim curator, I caught the KLM model airplane out of the corner of my eye, atop an old card catalog. I’d not noticed it before.
When I went to my history department office, where I found the book, I was inspired by my Teddy Roosevelt bobblehead and decided that “office tchotchkes” would be this week’s post. (That’s a Sarah Palin bobblehead in the background, looking out the window.)
The KLM model plane makes sense for an archive that features a lot of Dutch immigrant and Dutch American material. My research specialty is the mythology of the American West. So, Teddy Roosvelt, the “Rough Rider,” makes sense in my office.
No Ordinary Light 