Author: Melissa Prycer
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Two Years
I’m still not completely sure how I feel about Facebook’s memories that pop up unexpectedly in my feed. Over the last two weeks, four of them have been about what I was up to two years ago. I’ve never had Facebook hone in on a year quite like that before But how on earth does…
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Notes to Self
Just returned from Louisville, where I was attending the annual meeting of the American Association for State and Local History. And before I get back involved with the day to day of running Dallas Heritage Village, here are a few notes to myself I’d like to make for next year’s conference in Detroit. Don’t agree…
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Where I’ve Been and Where I’ll Be
This has been another summer of travel, mostly museum related, and there’s more travel ahead. Part of me has grand dreams of writing some thoughtful posts about some of these trips, but the practical side of me is starting to dump items off of the to do list. It seems like my only hope of…
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End of an Era?
Like all snarky liberals, I stayed up late on Thursday night to watch the end of an era–Jon Stewart’s last episode of The Daily Show. I’m sad that he’s leaving for many reasons, and Trevor Noah has some awfully big shoes to fill. I know that it won’t be the same, but I sincerely hope…
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Wardrobe Conundrums
Back in grad school, I talked myself into buying a totally useless (but very pretty!) dress by telling myself “But I might need a fancy dress like this for exhibit openings or fundraisers.” Even though I had never previously worked at a museum that had lots of fancy dress occasions, I just assumed that my…
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A different kind of community anchor
A couple of years ago, I was sitting in a professional development workshop, taking a quiz about how connected we were with the community. The quiz deeply frustrated me—Dallas Heritage Village is located in one of the largest metropolitan areas in the country. Major institutions in the city routinely have close to a million annual…
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Crime and Punishment
The Junior Historians at DHV are hard at work on a new exhibit for our school house. Way back when we first starting talking about stories, we knew we had to include discipline. Someone else (not me!) said “why don’t we look at children’s literature and see what we can find? ”
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Filling a gap on the timeline
In anticipation of a solitary road trip, I headed to the library for an audio book. Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos caught my eye, in part due to these lines in the description: “melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional.” Now, this was something that would make the miles pass faster. As…
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