Also, for the historical exhibits, there was a wall showing the "community curators" for each group -- people from that people who were involved in community historical and cultural stuff and had worked with the museum in setting up the exhibit.

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(Who says you don't learn stuff from romantic fluff?)

I used to read a lot of regency romances, especially when I was getting my doctorate and wanted fun reading on the side. I'm now reading a history of the extended Regency and I'm amazed at how much is familiar, from people and places to clothes and carriages.

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I totally read that one too. Assuming it's the same one.

Ironheart by Rachel Lee, one of her Conard County books (most of which were very intense and quite opressively dark, overall).

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Yep! Most of the books in that series, or at least the three or four I read, are actually pretty good.

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Oh, they're very good, which is why they survived the Great Romance Book Purge of 2006--I got rid of about 70 percent of my romances, but kept most of my Rachel Lees and Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quicks, all of my Nora Roberts and Loretta Chases, and various and sundry other titles.

Dark and oppressive romances don't mean they're not good. Kathleen Korbel (aka Eileen Dreyer for her mysteries) writes depressing romances that are fascinating to read but you really have to be ready for it--they deal with parental abuse, adult illiteracy, Downs' Syndrome, Vietnam nurses suffering from PTSD, suicidal thoughts on the parts of the hero/heroine, just to name a few.

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High steel workers are usually from tribes of the Mohawk Nation, which is native to the Northeast, where much of early to mid-20th Century high construction was concentrated.

Eastern Cherokee Nation tends more to the southeast mountains, Western Nation to the southwest; neither area has a high concentration of high steel construction. Some, but not a lot.

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Mohawk! Yes, the steel workers were part of a Mohawk exhibit. It was a bit more specific than that -- a particular group within the Mohawk nation -- but I don't remember the group name, just that it was about 20 letters long.

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According to, among others, this article it was the Kahnawake and Akwesasne Mohawks. They are minorly famous.

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a particular group within the Mohawk nation -- but I don't remember the group name, just that it was about 20 letters long

and had a : in it's name, that we were wondering how you pronounce.

For one of the groups, where a lot of the men go to New York City to work as iron workers, there were pictures of a bunch of the buildings they'd built, and a quote from someone talking about watching the WTC fall, knowing that his father had been one of the people who built it.

don't forget the title was WTC, but they had a picture of the Empire State Building.

In other words, Native American. Multiple serving stations, representing different regions of the Americas.

Dude! I felt like Robin Williams character, that Russian dude defecting to the US, in the supermarket for the first time. TOO MANY OPTIONS! But was very yummy.

Hil gave you most of the details. I museumed for about 35 minutes more, until they closed the place down. I looked around the store a bit, was disappointed that most everything cost a fortune, but found a couple things. Then the check out gal said I could join the Smithsonian for $19, and get a 10% discount as a member. So. Now I'm a member. I was going to do it when I got home, online. But. This gives me 10% discount and who knows what else for the rest of the museums I visit. If only I had another week.

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but I don't remember the group name, just that it was about 20 letters long.

They are minorly famous.

Heh. It's funny to me because in Quebec those bands (along with the Kanesatake) are practically household names so I forget they don't roll off the tongue for everyone.

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