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.

Martha E. Battle, Registrar             (919) 733-7862
NC Historic Sites                       Fax: (919) 733-9515
109 East Jones Street                   [log in to unmask]
Raleigh, NC  27601-2807
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