Counting Down

I'm really proud of all you guys who have managed to put some decent hours in for the exhibit. It is starting to show. Only four more days till the opening. Lots of details yet to work out.

Nathan mounting images

These guys are putting up with me
insisting that they lower all their images.

Mallory and Jim work on the timeline (and
put up with me telling them "too high, eye
level, eye level!")

Jim contemplates options.

 

Nancy antiques the LH Morgan text.

 

I picked up the vinyl lettering and will
try to install tomorrow.

Friday Hours

I will be in the museum tomorrow from 10:30-1:30 and then 2:30-5 or so. In the morning, I may have to be working on another project (in the museum) but will be there to let you in and help you find material you need, etc. I have printed out all of the Colonial Milieu team's labels. Those need to be mounted on mat board and trimmed with the paper cutter. I have a few more images on foam core that need trimming (for PL, CM and FC) and will finish those first thing in the morning. If you plan to come by in the morning, please let me know. 

George's Paternal Grandfather

Our exhibit title, Sentiment and Science, is turning out to have deeper relevance than we might have anticipated. Amos F. Beardsley, Sr. (GF's British-born grandfather) was not only a surgeon, he was 

• a member of the Victoria Institute (aka Philosophical Society of Great Britain), founded in 1865
• a Fellow of the Linnean Society
• and a Fellow of the Geological Society

The Victoria Institute was trying to reconcile the Bible with the geological evidence of the time. While they were clearly committed to making them "square" with one another, it doesn't appear that they were all catastrophists (according to some of the Transactions I've read today), which brings us back to Lyell's Principle of Uniformitarianism, and to the Mount Lyell Mining Company in Tasmania. See what I did, there?

You can read the Google e-book Faith and Thought, Journal of the Victoria Institute to find out more (Parallel Lives Team).