SUNY Oneonta

Oh, here's one.

SUNY Oneonta volunteered to plant 1,300 trees.

Let's see what this one's about here.

This looks like a good one.

They're good to...

So here's the article on, uh, WBNG.

Uh, SUNY Oneonta.

It's right up the road here about an hour.

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SUNY Oneonta, so we're Red Dragon.

But...

Which both of those SUNY schools, by the way, are Red Dragon.

So what are you going to do? SUNY Plattsburgh.

I think SUNY Oneonta is a funnier name, but SUNY Plattsburgh is funny, too.

How dare you bring up the school I didn't get into? Yeah.

How do you get into one SUNY but not the other SUNYs?

And I didn't get into SUNY.

I got waitlisted into SUNY New Paltz.

SUNY Oneonta straight up told me they didn't want to come.

And then I got into SUNY Purchase, but I visited and I was like, I didn't know what hipsters or improv people were at the time.

Didn't really like George III, but was fighting because it was a, a job, uh, and a living.

Yeah, so, you know, I al- also teach at, um, a New York State history class at SUNY Oneonta, and I often tell my students that here in New York State, you often read that the population was split into thirds in terms of their allegiances.

Hmm.

There was a third remained loyal to Britain, a third were active patriots, you know, fighting or resisting in some way against the, uh, English colonial forces, and then a full third here in New York State remained, um, neutral or tried to steer middle ground.

It's hard to understate the importance of, um, actual archived 3D objects like canes and chairs and uniforms, and we're sitting here in the library here at the, uh, Historical Association, surrounded by photographs and, you know, 1D flat archival stuff like photos and letters and books.

You know, again, as a historian, I lead two lives, here at the museum, more involved with objects like this in many ways, and some of our old buildings out on the site.

Uh, and then I go off to teach, uh, to lecture kids over at, um, you know, young, young adults over at SUNY Oneonta, which is more straight academic book reading kind of history.

I mean, they complement each other.

I don't want to say a presentation, but he came up and did a speech and everything.

He did an appearance at SUNY Oneonta when I went to school there.

So I actually got to meet Dennis Haskins back then.

And I would have never in a million years thought that I would be crossing paths twice with Dennis Haskins, Mr. Belding.

I met a candidate running for office who was a musician.

So you went to college in Nashville? I went to college in SUNY Oneonta, a music industry school, but I went for the summer to Nashville.

But I was working remotely for a firm in LA, a whole other conversation.

But that summer, I decided to go work in Nashville.

What are some of the things that participants generated that were maybe more widely available or more widely distributed as a result of the project?

I worked with Ed Beck, my colleague here at SUNY Oneonta, who is also serving this year as the chair of the Faculty Advisory Council on Teaching and Technology for the SUNY system.

Ed helped us build a WordPress site that acts as a repository for some of the student-facing materials and other deliverables that faculty made through our groups.

So we definitely had faculty share within the smaller virtual communities, but then we also invited them to submit their materials to this site, which we included a Creative Commons license for the site.

And, um, I hit a roadblock.

The program that the community college had with, um, SUNY Oneonta had fallen through, and so I was like, "Oh, wow.

Like, what do I do now?" So I tried joining the Navy.

I was still in school, but I was like, "Let me join the Navy.