In February 2020 the Born Again Labor Museum began work on the first of a new series of educational videos, Galapagos, Illinois. This video, meant in part as a memorial to Ray Markley, was shot largely on location in Fulton County, Illinois, and conflates the novel Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut with everyday life. Stills from Galapagos, Illinois and its production (in progress):
“You, *Doctor Hiroguchi,” she went on, “think that everybody but yourself is just taking up space on this planet, and we make too much noise and waste valuable natural resources and have too many children and leave garbage around. So it would be a much nicer place if the few stupid services we are able to perform for the likes of you were taken over by machinery. That wonderful Mandarax you’re scratching your ear with now: what is that but an excuse for a mean spirited egomaniac never to pay or even thank any human being with a knowledge of languages or mathematics or history or medicine or literature or ikebana or anything?” - Kurt Vonnegut, Galapagos