I’m starting my day here with a cup of coffee while listening to a podcast. Juneteenth has become one of favorite holidays for a number of different reasons. I’m using the day to do a little work adding records for an upcoming project to a citation generator, and preparing for a big project coming this fall to my school. It has become more involved than I had originally imagined and been more than a little stressful. It’s been good to have a long weekend to replenish a bit.

I took the picture above in Morristown this past Saturday on my way back to the train station after my talk. We had a small but engaged audience for my talk about the the Brooklyn Daily Eagle National Park Service Development Tours of the 1910s and 1920s. It was a story I had wanted to tell for several years, and finally did in an article last year and this weekend’s accompanying talk. One woman in the audience had a brother who delivered the Eagle back in the day. Another had a father who helped build Jockey Hollow as a laborer in the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s. These are things you get only by engaging with the public. It’s why I love interpretation so much.

Enjoy your day.