Summer is Here!
After a flurry of meetings and grading and writing, summer finally started last week. What better way to start the summer than with the 30th annual sea music festival at Mystic Seaport? Thanks to my connections through a cod fishing expert I even got a wonderful tour of the Amistad; yes, that one, the one they made the movie about. To top that off I finally heard a version of Captain Ward clear enough that I can actually make out what went on in the song. Mystic Seaport is weird. It’s some chimera of a village assembled by taking parts of other New England villages together. So I got to hear a dirty song about a girl who brought more sailors to their graves than all the pirates and privateers in the world by having great sex with them.
This church was home to many dirty sailing songs that day.
The last week has been spent organizing and packing for a two-month trip out west. I’m flying out tomorrow to attend a NSF-funded institute for in-service teachers at the University of Washington tomorrow, followed by MathFest in August. I do have some exciting things on the back burner here to update the blog with, but they will have to wait a little bit longer.