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Date: | Fri, 22 Mar 1996 18:11:06 -0500 |
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On Fri, 22 Mar 1996, Martha Battle wrote:
> Years ago, while providing collections training to the staff of a small
> museum in our state, I discovered some muddy 1940s soda pop bottles in an
> artifact storage cabinet. When I questioned the "registrar" about how the
> bottles got muddy, she told me she had buried those bottles & some others
> in the back yard of the museum because the bottles "didn't look old
> enough". Horrified, I immediately pulled in all available staff members &
> organized a scavenger hunt for the remaining bottles. In spite of hours
> of digging, we only recovered one of the seven missing bottles. Needless
> to say, this person is no longer working in the museum field.
This is a lighter note? What would a heavier one be like?
Hank Burchard * <[log in to unmask]> * Washington DC
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