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We’ve Been Under Construction
Bucket dredge barge working on the Culebra Cut, 1910. You may have noticed the PCMC Blog has been silent for the past couple months. During that time, we’ve been under construction getting a new look. The blog’s new layout allows for easy navigation and searching and is more mobile-friendly than the previous version. All blog posts and comments from the previous version have been transferred over. Commenting on posts is just as easy as before – simply type your name, email, and comment and click “post comment.” The blog’s URL has changed from ufpcmcollection.wordpress.com to pcmc.domains.uflib.ufl.edu. While the old URL will automatically redirect to the new site for at least…
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2020 Spring Luncheon and Exhibition
The annual Spring luncheon and joint meeting of the Friends of the Panama Canal Museum Collection and the Panama Canal Society will be held Saturday, March 7, 2020, in the Smathers Library Building on the University of Florida campus. If you are interested in attending the luncheon, please refer to the registration form for PCS members. Luncheon attendees will be able to view the new exhibition in the Albert Nahmad Panama Canal Gallery, entitled Are We Next? Fear and Social Roles in World War II. This exhibition examines the defense of the Panama Canal during the Second World War. As a result of the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, there was heightened…
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A Well-Used Collection
This semester, three courses at the University of Florida are utilizing the Panama Canal Museum Collection in their curricula, exposing both graduate and undergraduate students to various portions of Canal Zone history. Professor Lourdes Santamaría-Wheeler is teaching an exhibits course in the Museum Studies department in which graduate students work in small groups to produce museum exhibits. One of the groups has been assigned to curate an upcoming exhibit for the Albert H. Nahmad Panama Canal Gallery. Their exhibit focuses on World War II in the Canal Zone, displaying artifacts such as wartime propaganda and personal photographs. Professor Benjamin E. Wise is teaching a course focusing on David McCullough’s The…
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Updates and Introductions: Summer Bias
Hello, all! My name is Summer Bias and I am new to the PCMC team. I am a second-year Museum Studies graduate student concentrating on History here at UF. This semester I am working on blog posts and processing collections. I am so excited to learn more about the history of the Panama Canal Zone and showcase interesting pieces of the past here on the blog!
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Updates and Introductions: Lynea Wilson
Hello! My name is Lynea Wilson and this is my first semester working with the Panama Canal Museum Collection. I am currently helping to prepare the upcoming exhibition all about food in the Zone. This topic is closely related to my thesis research into the use of food in museum education. I’ve spent the last week looking through Zonian cook books, yearbooks, and oral histories and am so interested to learn more about this subject- Johnny Mazetti in particular! I’m looking forward to learning more from this collection and all of you.
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Cookbook of Panama Canal Zone Cuisine Wins Award
Opening the Gates to Canal Cuisine, a cookbook created by the Panama Canal Museum with the help of many volunteers and published with the Library Press @ UF and the George A. Smathers Libraries, was recently announced as the winner selected to represent Panama in the American category of the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. As a finalist, the cookbook is a contender for the “Best in the World” award, which will be given at the Gourmand Awards on May 25-28, 2018 in Yantai, China. Read more about the awards here: http://www.cookbookfair.com/. Opening the Gates to Canal Cuisine contains hundreds of recipes that were used by people of all nationalities during…
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Updates and Introductions: Coral Dixon
Hello, everyone! My name is Coral Dixon and I’m so excited to join the PCMC team! I am a UF Museum Studies MA graduate student, concentrating in Communications and Public Engagement. I look forward to learning more about the history of the Panama Canal Zone, as well as get some hands-on experience with the collection. It makes me so glad to see that the Zonian community is active in this blog and eager to contribute and work with the PCMC libraries team towards preserving this culture and history. I can’t wait to start updating this blog with information, pictures, and stories as I come across interesting objects in the collection, and I hope to get to know all…
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Cruising the Canal, Save the Date!
Two upcoming opportunities to join Fundraising Cruises with Friends of the PCMC: February 17-25, 2018 and February 28-March 11, 2018. For more information, see the Cruises Flyer.
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Updates and Introductions
Hello all! I’m Liz Bouton and I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself. I have been working with the Panama Canal Museum Collection since August 2016, and curated the Between Two Oceans exhibit with assistance from Jessica Marcetti and Lourdes Santamaría-Wheeler in the Albert H. Nahmad Panama Canal Gallery, George A. Smathers Libraries. I am a Museum Studies MA graduate student here at the University of Florida, concentrating in anthropology. I love historic collections, and the PCMC items offer a chance to explore a community history and present it to the UF students and faculty through relevant courses and exhibits. For those who do not know, Jessica, the previous…
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Panama Canal Society Survey
Have you taken the Panama Canal Society Survey? Click here to take the survey We invite you to follow the link and take 10 minutes to complete this short survey, which will help us understand how academic libraries and private museums can work together to support the preservation and ongoing education and celebration of Panama Canal heritage. For detailed information about how your answers will be compiled and shared with the PCS, PCMC, and PCMC Friends, click here. Thank you very much for your time and participation!
