Project Update #3

Zac and I have been continuing our weekly meetings with Dr Gannon about the status of the "Lone Sailor" project at Blue Jacket Park.

This Tuesday we will actually be meeting with the committee in which we will bring some examples of panels as well as some questions we have prepared to ask the committee about where they see the direction of the project going.

Zac and I decided that we are going to use Google Slides to create some examples of panels that the committee can use to convey its information. We are going to use the dimensions 36 x 48 to try and create as much as possible of the actual slide as we can.

For this week, Dr Gannon has asked us to create both an introductory panel as well as an informational or "meat" panel. We have decided to do our informational panel on "Training" procedures.

We do not know for sure if the committee is going to go ahead with the audio component of their exhibit; but we have prepared questions for that as well.

For our introductory panel, we are creating "History of the Lone Sailor" which will include the following pieces of information:

• The Lone Soldier Memorial was created by Stanley Bleifeld, a WWII Naval Veteran and the Navy's official Sculptor. 

• • This is the 14th Lone Sailor Navy Memorial in the United States
  
  
  • The Sailor looks directly into the “grinder”, the spot where recruits marched, trained, and eventually graduated. 
  
  
  • He also looks at the site where the famous wooden training ship, USS Blue Jacket, stood for many years.

  
  

We are considering adding some information on education to the panels but we are going to talk to Dr Gannon more today.

So far I have created a few examples of those mock panels and Zac is working on some questions we can ask the committee on Tuesday. After Tuesday, we will get more of an idea of what the committee wants and where they think they're going to go from there.

As far as presenting the project, we more than likely are going to show the panels that we have created for the committee as well as some of the questions (and answers) we record from our meeting on Tuesday.

As far as difficulties we have experienced, the committee has not been very clear on what exactly they wanted but that should become more clear tomorrow.