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The +1's son comes back up to Baltimore for good this week for his teacher training and then on to a job in Sept, we hope. He is attending a job fair this week. The +1 may see him Sat.
Very nice!! Hand made that looks like machine precision.
Antiques Roadshow was phenomenal. We arrived early and waited in line only a short time. The setting was beautiful (Winterthur, a DuPont estate near Wilmington, DE) and it was obvious that the PBS organizers knew what they were doing. (Not their first rodeo!) After passing through security, we first went to a ”triage” table where we were given a ticket which indicated which appraiser we were to be escorted to. As I suspected, ours was the Folk Art table. I immediately recognized one of the appraisers from the TV show, and luckily we were in his line. At first sight, he knew exactly the story of our baskets, and I was able to give him some more details about the makers, the Shelton Sisters. I was impressed with the time and genuine interest that the appraisers showed. The small basket caught his attention as he had never seen one that size before. So that we received an accurate appraisal, he took us to an appraiser at the Furniture area who was from North Carolina. He, too, had never seen such an intricately made basket. After consulting his resources, he gave us his estimates. From large to small, respectively, $1000, $2000, and $3000 to $4000 for the smallest one, the best of the lot! We were not selected to be filmed, but nevertheless, this was a very enjoyable morning. The line waiting to get in when we left was several hundred people long. Glad we got there at 7:30. They said that there would be 3 episodes from Winterthur which will be aired sometime in 2020.
Today is World Hydrography Day. Among other things, Hydrographers are responsible for keeping shipping and boating safe by developing and maintaining sea floor charts and coastal geography. To celebrate, the University of South Mississippi, The NOAA Office of Coast Survey, and the Naval Oceanographic Office, aka NAVOCEANO or simply NAVO, all participated in showing off their marine mapping and research capabilities. All three organizations have a heavy presence locally, operating out of Stennis Space Center here on the coast. These days hydrography is a very high tech field using tools like side scan radar, high resolution sonar and underwater cameras, along with locating GPS and vertical GPS. On hand were four research vessels and several autonomous surface and sub-surface vessels. There were also various instrumented buoys and a deep sea remotely operated rig along with a really cool sail drone.
Of course there were plenty of experts on hand to describe their missions and the tech associated with hydrography. But I enjoyed the benefit of an expert guide throughout my visit to the event. My son works on projects for NAVO, building tools for the Navy that take data produced by NAVO research vessels as well as data from various commercial and educational sources and rendering it in ways that are useful to end users. I don't know any details beyond the broad outlines of his job that I just described because his work is classified. Since he had today off, he joined me at the event and was able to share a lot of (non-classified) insights into all the tech we were checking out.
The event was held at the University of Southern Mississippi Ocean Science & Engineering Center in Gulfport, MS.
06-16-2019, 04:12 AM
They said that there would be 3 episodes from Winterthur which will be aired sometime in 2020.
