Welcome back!
So, to inaugurate a new year of blogging (hint: my birthday and the "return of the light" always seems like a fresh start and a new year), this blog will resume with its posts on objects, learning with and about objects, the strange interactions of cognition (and the brain) with objects and movement, and how to incorporate material culture and kinesthetic learning into classrooms and museums...
What better way to do this than with an icon of pop culture??
To wit: Jackie Kennedy's dress from Dallas.
In a recent (January 28, 2011) Yahoo News, "Jackie Kennedy artifacts missing from JFK inauguration anniversary exhibit" Brett Michael Dykes reports on the archival fate of Jackie's pink suit and accessories from the November 22, 1963 Dallas motorcade....
Spoiler alert!
...NARA has it.
NARA is the National Archives and Records Administration. They're better known for archiving paper documents (actual, representational, or digital). But they have the complete outfit (minus the pillbox hat) in deep storage until 2103.
The outfit itself is an iconic object. Unlike many objects its specific history and significance are well-known. The path of its arrival is a mystery -- like many objects. Its storage and care are phenomenal -- unlike many objects.
But the outfit is incomplete -- like many objects: the pillbox hat is missing.
Like many things about Jackie O. -- and about working with objects -- there is some mystery remaining....
Saturday, January 29, 2011
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