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Last night K and I went to the Penn Museum to attend:
Great Archaeological Discoveries: The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial and the Origins of the English Speaking Peoples, by Dr. Richard Hodges
Description: Dr. Hodges will examine the extraordinary objects found in these excavations which reveal a story of how the English peoples began to have a new identity as well as new ambitions.
The event started at 6 PM. We left the office at maybe 5:15, and then stopped for a quick dinner, which turned out to be delicious but less quick than we'd hoped (although we wolfed those salads down and felt a bit sick afterwards). So we ended up being 20 minutes late. Apparently that was a pretty crucial 20 minutes. We saw slides of the extraordinary objects, and heard about the story of the English peoples, but we missed most of how the find came to be, um, found, and who found it and why. We got the gist of it, but as Dr. Hodges continued to refer to those people, we kept feeling like we were missing the joke. Still a really good talk, and we both enjoyed it, but we agreed that we liked the intimate feel of the lunchtime lecture more. This event was crowded!
Also, this website about the lecture series states that there will be a related gallery tour after each lecture, as well as light refreshments. We got the light refreshments (which included several tasty cheeses!), but there was no gallery tour. We were a bit sad. However, I did catch the earlier train home, so I guess it was for the best. I guess I don't really need to spend all night galivanting around archaeological finds! (At least, not until I'm independently wealthy and can afford that PhD.)
No more lectures for the summer, apparently, although we picked up fliers about next year's lecture series. Hopefully all the archaeologists will spend their summers digging up cool stuff that we can then go hear them talk about next year. We've decided that next year, we will leave earlier and arrive on time.
Great Archaeological Discoveries: The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial and the Origins of the English Speaking Peoples, by Dr. Richard Hodges
Description: Dr. Hodges will examine the extraordinary objects found in these excavations which reveal a story of how the English peoples began to have a new identity as well as new ambitions.
The event started at 6 PM. We left the office at maybe 5:15, and then stopped for a quick dinner, which turned out to be delicious but less quick than we'd hoped (although we wolfed those salads down and felt a bit sick afterwards). So we ended up being 20 minutes late. Apparently that was a pretty crucial 20 minutes. We saw slides of the extraordinary objects, and heard about the story of the English peoples, but we missed most of how the find came to be, um, found, and who found it and why. We got the gist of it, but as Dr. Hodges continued to refer to those people, we kept feeling like we were missing the joke. Still a really good talk, and we both enjoyed it, but we agreed that we liked the intimate feel of the lunchtime lecture more. This event was crowded!
Also, this website about the lecture series states that there will be a related gallery tour after each lecture, as well as light refreshments. We got the light refreshments (which included several tasty cheeses!), but there was no gallery tour. We were a bit sad. However, I did catch the earlier train home, so I guess it was for the best. I guess I don't really need to spend all night galivanting around archaeological finds! (At least, not until I'm independently wealthy and can afford that PhD.)
No more lectures for the summer, apparently, although we picked up fliers about next year's lecture series. Hopefully all the archaeologists will spend their summers digging up cool stuff that we can then go hear them talk about next year. We've decided that next year, we will leave earlier and arrive on time.
