Salon post: June 22

Welcome to this week's salon post!

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Topic of the week
Logistics note: I didn't realise until last Saturday that I'd forgotten to unlock last week's Salon post. If you notice I haven't unlocked it, feel free to let me know. (Most content in my journal is locked: I am very amiable about adding most people, but it means I have to remember to unlock the Salon posts in particular.)

Question for the week: What interesting things have you done recently? (Whether that's something new to you, something other people might find interesting to hear about you do all the time, or the current thing you're geeking out over.)

I went to a presentation a week ago for the Cambridge (this is the Massachusetts Cambridge) Open Archives, two weeks when a lot of the museums and archive collections do special sessions. The one I was at was at Mount Auburn Cemetery, which was the first 'rural' cemetery in the United States.

It's a really beautiful place (it was jointly designed with horticulture in mind) and the way they've preserved information is also fascinating. Families who owned plots could design the landscaping in that plot (within guidelines), and they kept all those records. I was reminded I really ought to go walk there more often.

What I've been up to:
See above! Otherwise, a fair bit of playing catchup with life.

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