All,
Many of you were able to attend the PADG meeting in
Building on the presentation and the interest it engendered, Alfred and I
have been working on a plan to allow up to 60 members of PADG to come to the
THNOC on the morning of Friday, June 23rd for a special free behind the scenes tour!! The tour will start at 9:30 and last
until 11:30. Please come to the
front door of the
Attendees will be organized into equal size groups in order to flow smoothly through several portions of the facilities. Groups will rotate through all portions of the THNOC, so that everyone can see everything!! The first group will tour the Williams Research Center (WRC). For details on the WRC, please click the Research button in the left panel of the main page.
A second group will first explore “Common Routes: St. Domingue to Louisiana” (Exhibit web site at http://www.hnoc.org/stdomingue/flash_commonroutes.html ) The THNOC staff member leading that portion of the tour will speak on the nitty gritty details of preparing the collection for exhibit, touching on new standards for shipping crates, insurance changes relating to terrorism and the creation of condition reports.
A third group will begin by watching a video on the exhibition produced and directed by Walter Williams, perhaps better known as the creator of “Mr. Bill” on Saturday Night Live. All three groups will see the Exhibition, video and WRC.
At the end, all attendees will congregate in to one central area so that we can get a group update from Alfred on how the Collection and the City are doing post-Katrina.
Family members are also welcome to attend and there is a family guide to the exhibition.
Please RSVP to Cathy Martyniak (cmook@xxxxxxx) or Jane Hedberg (jane_hedberg@xxxxxxxxxxx ) by Monday, June 5th, so that Alfred will be able to schedule sufficient staff to host the event.