October 7, 2026
Tag: shankar's award
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Shankar’s Award and a Kid Named Carlos
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The writings, collections and artwork of children is seldom found in museum archives. A situation that is a real social failure. Curators are loathe to see such documents destroyed but it happens every day. When the “kids” go off to college the 8th grade essay books go to the dumpster. Shame on us, America.
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March 31, 2021 5 Comments
A recent interview with a collector of observatory postcards was great fun. I had no plan for another until Bill Ward came to my office one day. We talked about books and his postcard collection that he said was just words and notes. Bill’s words were really special and his notes were better.