I will be holding a lecture about the Sea Peoples at the municipal this Saturday! The Sea Peoples are a purported confederation that conducted multiple attacks in the Mediterranean during the late bronze age collapse (1200–900 BCE) They are credited with the destruction of multiple civilisations and we know very little about them. We do not know where they came from or what language they spoke. We just know that one day they appeared and wherever they went destruction followed.
It’s a super interesting subject and during the lecturer I will talk about some theories regarding the Sea Peoples origins as well as the few things we do know about them.
First lecture will be at 13:00-14:00 and the second one will be at 15:00-16:00
Hope to see you there!
Good evening,
I’d like to remind you all of the event that will take place in our Museum on July 25th at 5pm. A lesson will be held in the Groose Ponderosa Room (the big room that is on the right of the entrance room) on the topic of “Archaeology, and an Archaeologist’s Work” by Dr. Julia Ainsworth.
While anyone can attend, the lesson will be targeted to children. There is no entrance fee but you will have to book a ticket to attend.
Dr. Ainsworth is a young archaeologist and researcher who works at SouthWest University. She also has field experience and was part of the team of archaeologists working on the excavations near Rosewater in 2019. You might have heard about the great discoveries that were made there and that should soon be able to be seen in the Rosewater Town Museum.
Dr. Ainsworth has kindly agreed to lend her expertise to give a great and rare educational opportunity to any child who might be interested in archaeology. Personally, I think this might be an extremely interesting opportunity for a child and I would urge any of you that have children to take them.
Again, I must remind you that you have to book a ticket to attend. The tickets are free of charge, but you can choose to make a donation to the museum if you wish.
If you are interested, I encourage you to try to book a ticket (which you can do by visiting the museum’s website, or by going to the ticket office in the museum itself) as soon as possible. In the past few years, whenever we have had similar events, they have tended to become fully booked very quickly.
I told them I was above the law.
(It's a joke, i didn't really go on the roof of the municipal court last week)
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Good day, my fellow citizens.
Today, I have the pleasure to announce that our very own municipal museum will soon be hosting an extraordinary exhibition, of the kind we have never had the honour to host before.
In the past few months, all of us here at the Lower Duck Pond Municipal Museum have been working hard alongside the folks from the Upper Duck Pond Municipal Museum to create twin exhibitions focused on our towns shared histories.
We know well that there is a rivalry between the two towns, and that rivalry has sometimes slipped into vitriolic hate, but we shouldn’t forget that we once all came from the same, larger city.
It was only in the latest parts of our histories that a group of Mormons went North and founded Upper Duck Pond, and an anabaptist collective settled into Lower Duck Pond. Our towns’ rivalry is as old as the towns themselves, and that’s why we’ve concluded that we cannot verily talk about the history of Lower Duck Pond without discussing the history of Upper Duck Pond, and vice versa.
The exhibitions will both open on the 13th of January 2020, and they will last until the 28th of March 2020, so everybody should be able to find the time to visit both.
While you can look at both our websites for further information, I want to be able to give you an idea of what you will be able to find. I’m not sure how many of you have visited the Municipal Museum of Upper Duck Pond (if you haven’t, I recommend it) but we will be hosting part of their sizeable collection of books and documents.
Among them: a first edition of the Book of Mormon, in impressively good condition (not strictly relevant, but Upper Duck Pond insisted we feature it); the formal declaration of secession from the larger town of Pond City (note that this concerns Lower Duck Pond history as well, since the division in Upper and Lower Duck Pond was subsequent); the 1831 Duck Pond town census.
In addition to that, we’ll also be hosting a lot of paintings from the artists of the Upper Duck Pond Colourist school. For those who don’t know, the Upper Duck Pond Colourists were a group of painters in the early 20th century who, although they were initially ignored, have received nation-wide attention. The Upper Duck Pond Museum gallery features a lot of their works and they’re being kind enough to lend them to us for this exhibition.
Their works mostly feature beautifully painted landscapes that you might be able to recognise. I’d also point out that one of the main representat
... keep reading on reddit ➡I’d like to remind everyone here in town that starting from Monday and lasting until Sunday 6th October, Lower Duck Pond Municipal Museum will be hosting a special archive exhibition.
For many of you this will be the only chance to see the wonders we keep well hidden in our archive, so be sure to pay a visit.
Our archive contains thousands of artifacts and relics that may not be as glamorous as the fossilised remains of an ancient whale or other such beautiful artifacts that we keep in our permanent collection, but they are nethertheless extremely interesting.
Our archive contains, among other things, the entire taxidermy collection donated to the museum by Madame Rosalind Abbott in 1876 (those of you who visit the museum frequently will already be familiar with the embalmed lion we keep in our permanent collection, but you’ve no doubt not seen the many other animals we have in store!) and the entire archaelogy collection of Blaine Crankshaw III, the father of Blaine Crankshaw IV who ended up founding our Municipal Museum.
As always, entry is free of charge but all donations are welcome. If any school groups are wanting to do visits, please ask for Yael at the informations office.
While unfortunately we won’t be able to exhibit all of the relics from our archive (there is simply not enough space! And some of them are incredibly fragile and not ready for exhibition) this is a one-in-a-lifetime-chance, so don’t miss it.
Please remember not to touch any of the items in the exhibition.
I was quite suprised to be the only person in the entire building that had a mask on in court today. This includes judges, probation officers and even my public defender. Im really not the mask shaming type, but im wondering if anyone has some ideas of who I could contact to report this kind of oversight? It seems like the most exposed type of place--They get a new group of people, twice a day, shuffling through those doors from all over the area and sitting next to each other. I was flabbergasted that government employees would not only allow this, but expose themselves to it as well.
My boyfriend and I want to check out the Mann Leiser greenhouse but I'm afraid it won't be open.
Other ideas for fun stuff to do today??
Olá, venho com esta dúvida depois de ter visto a proposta da Iniciativa Liberal de abolir o SMN e adotar o SMM (Salário Mínimo Municipal). Parece-me ser uma medida interessante, por um lado parece ser positivo na medida de ajustar o salário à vida de cada município mas por outro lado, o negativo, parece que talvez possa criar desigualdade entre concelhos (tendo em conta que o nosso país não é assim tão grande e portanto os concelhos acabam por interagir economicamente entre si). Porém não sei como isto funcionaria em termos práticos. A minha dúvida é: saber se há países que adotaram esta medida e se funcionou bem ou mal, como vocês veriam essa medida e se é positiva ou negativa na vossa opinião.
