Comments on: WHP 21 Lays The Smack Down on HBG’s Sports Hall of Fame http://jerseymike.org/2008/07/whp-21-lays-the-smack-down-on-hbgs-sports-hall-of-fame/ We ain't even keeping score no more... Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:53:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: eddie http://jerseymike.org/2008/07/whp-21-lays-the-smack-down-on-hbgs-sports-hall-of-fame/comment-page-1/#comment-31557 eddie Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:00:47 +0000 http://jerseymike.org/?p=512#comment-31557 When will the people finally relize Levenda is just ripping off the city and has been for years. Hes in over his head ! Its so obvious that he was clueless to what the competition is going to be to a so called museum that usually starve to death anyhow. This man needs to go. One hundered Thousand dollars a year to a "bafoon" ! When will the people finally relize Levenda is just ripping off the city and has been for years. Hes in over his head ! Its so obvious that he was clueless to what the competition is going to be to a so called museum that usually starve to death anyhow. This man needs to go. One hundered Thousand dollars a year to a “bafoon” !

]]> By: stoneman http://jerseymike.org/2008/07/whp-21-lays-the-smack-down-on-hbgs-sports-hall-of-fame/comment-page-1/#comment-30070 stoneman Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:05:30 +0000 http://jerseymike.org/?p=512#comment-30070 The (Harrisburg) Sports Hall of Fame is undoubtedly why the esteemed Mayor Reed was chosen twice as "simply the best" in the latest Harrisburg Magazine. So much for renewing that subscription The (Harrisburg) Sports Hall of Fame is undoubtedly why the esteemed Mayor Reed was chosen twice as “simply the best” in the latest Harrisburg Magazine.

So much for renewing that subscription

]]> By: Rusty http://jerseymike.org/2008/07/whp-21-lays-the-smack-down-on-hbgs-sports-hall-of-fame/comment-page-1/#comment-29642 Rusty Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:55:59 +0000 http://jerseymike.org/?p=512#comment-29642 I always find it unfortunate when passion for museums collides with reality. As a fan of museums, I don't mind the idea of two museums doing similar/the same things in different markets. For example, almost every city worth visiting has a decent art museum. Almost every one of them boasts work by the same artists. So I don't think just because there is one means there isn't a reason for another to come in to being. Yet there must be compelling reasons for it to come into being, or it will fail. This is where real feasibility studies can come in very handy. Museum projects are often insulated, vanity projects developed by an individual and his related yes men/women. Sometimes this results in having people who are less than model museum professionals guiding the operations. In twenty years of hanging around museums, I have seen this again and again. A Director that doesn't know what anybody else in the field is doing. A Curator who puts together a show that someone else just put together five months ago fifty miles away. The power of DC, Philly, NYC, and Baltimore will always suck Central Pennsylvanians away from the prize. It is cooler to tell your friends you saw a museum in New York than to tell them you went to the State Museum, The National Civil War Museum, or The Hershey Museum. Our regional museums suffer because of this, but it is unavoidable. It is futile to resist the magnetism of larger metropolitan areas. And you simply cannot compare Harrisburg to that. You just can't. No matter how much you love Hbg. One last thought, CBS21 did not, as the Patriot does not, flesh out the riptide and undercurrent of the real story here, the story of museums, museum development, and the changing ways people learn from and interact with objects. You can't do that in a couple of minutes or in one news story in the Patriot, but if you did, it'd always be better. Nice to see at least 21 didn't drag out Jason Smith for comment on a museum related thing as if he is the only expert in town. I always find it unfortunate when passion for museums collides with reality. As a fan of museums, I don’t mind the idea of two museums doing similar/the same things in different markets. For example, almost every city worth visiting has a decent art museum. Almost every one of them boasts work by the same artists. So I don’t think just because there is one means there isn’t a reason for another to come in to being. Yet there must be compelling reasons for it to come into being, or it will fail. This is where real feasibility studies can come in very handy.

Museum projects are often insulated, vanity projects developed by an individual and his related yes men/women. Sometimes this results in having people who are less than model museum professionals guiding the operations. In twenty years of hanging around museums, I have seen this again and again. A Director that doesn’t know what anybody else in the field is doing. A Curator who puts together a show that someone else just put together five months ago fifty miles away.

The power of DC, Philly, NYC, and Baltimore will always suck Central Pennsylvanians away from the prize. It is cooler to tell your friends you saw a museum in New York than to tell them you went to the State Museum, The National Civil War Museum, or The Hershey Museum. Our regional museums suffer because of this, but it is unavoidable. It is futile to resist the magnetism of larger metropolitan areas. And you simply cannot compare Harrisburg to that. You just can’t. No matter how much you love Hbg.

One last thought, CBS21 did not, as the Patriot does not, flesh out the riptide and undercurrent of the real story here, the story of museums, museum development, and the changing ways people learn from and interact with objects. You can’t do that in a couple of minutes or in one news story in the Patriot, but if you did, it’d always be better. Nice to see at least 21 didn’t drag out Jason Smith for comment on a museum related thing as if he is the only expert in town.

]]> By: Phil http://jerseymike.org/2008/07/whp-21-lays-the-smack-down-on-hbgs-sports-hall-of-fame/comment-page-1/#comment-29613 Phil Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:33:57 +0000 http://jerseymike.org/?p=512#comment-29613 Makes you wonder what other jobs are out there in Harrisburg that are really just ways to give money to folks for doing absolutely nothing. Namaste. Makes you wonder what other jobs are out there in Harrisburg that are really just ways to give money to folks for doing absolutely nothing.

Namaste.

]]> By: aharden http://jerseymike.org/2008/07/whp-21-lays-the-smack-down-on-hbgs-sports-hall-of-fame/comment-page-1/#comment-29547 aharden Fri, 01 Aug 2008 03:10:47 +0000 http://jerseymike.org/?p=512#comment-29547 Sports Hall of Fame? Does the city (I mean, Stephen Reed) think we've forgotten about the <a href="http://www.whtm.com/news/stories/0608/526513.html" rel="nofollow">Wild West Museum</a>? Sports Hall of Fame? Does the city (I mean, Stephen Reed) think we’ve forgotten about the Wild West Museum?

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