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Anne Lane <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 12 May 1998 13:42:31 -0400
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Thank you, David.  Well said.

At 11:06 AM 12-05-98 -0400, David Haberstich wrote:
> I wish to register vigorous disagreement with Peter Rebernik's line,
>"It should not be the task of a museum scientist to write the
>inscriptions [labels?], not even to do the exhibition at all." In the
>first place, I reject that kind of didacticism. I get a little tired of
>having people placed in narrowly defined pigeonholes, and hearing rules
>that occupations shouldn't be allowed to deviate from predetermined
>roles.
Anne T. Lane
Curatorial Assistant
Museum of York County
4621 Mount Gallant Road
Rock Hill, SC 29715
803-329-2121, ext 104
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