Archaeologist Desiree Martinez, co-director of the Pimu Catalina Island Archaeological Project gave a presentation on recent excavation and research into island history that included some discussion of our film A Donation to the Museum, released earlier this year. Desiree was involved in this film project which explored how grave goods and human skeletal remains from Catalina and San Nicholas found their way to an English Museum more than a century ago. By coincidence this past summer, Desiree and student participants in the Pimu project found themselves unexpectedly excavating part of the tourist camp once owned by English relic hunter Alfred Hutchins, an early resident of Avalon and a subject of this film.