>     Let's combine Old Recipes with Sense and Sensibility - The talk
>about licking paintings!  reminded me of an old saw that was told to a
>friend who inherited turn of the century European paintings (huge, with
>gloppy frames) - She was told to set them in a warm shower and rub the
>surface with a raw potato.  She tried one and found it not very
>satisfying, but the frame sure sparkled - having lost decades of
>household dust.  The rest, thankfully, were too large for her shower and
>by the time she got a bathtub she had second thoughts.
>     Diane Brenner, Anchorage useum

Diane, you may have inadvertantly opened a new fork in the road for many of
the discussions currently going on.  My interest in the absurd notion that
museums should *actually* get to know and listen to their *community* makes
me keenly interested in your "useum".  I'd love to come up and have a look!
Are the Muse's angry with you?
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