> Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 15:55:07 -0500
> From: Timothy Wade <[log in to unmask]>
>
> I'm not sure where you got Kentucky, Columbia from...
Sorry, Timothy, for being somewhat obtuse.
I was trying to be ironic. These guys removed a huge prehispanic
patrimony from Colombia, which collection eventually ended up in
some private collector's hands in Kentucky. I was just trying to
highlight the perverseness of the whole enterprise.
Like Flynn said, "History is a precious thing. You just don't
sell it."
Peter
> Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 12:43:10 -0800
> From: Peter Rauch <[log in to unmask]>
>
> ... And, what about those "Colombian" artifacts?! Where is
> Kentucky, Colombia anyway?
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> History for Sale
>
> ... the museum got out of a potentially ruinous lawsuit and a
> portion of the pre-Columbian collection got crated up and
> shipped out to Kentucky.
> ...
> Many of the pieces are from the museum's Zaragovia collection, a
> treasure trove of 500-plus artifacts donated by brothers Angelo
> Zaragovia and Efraim Saragovia. The brothers spell their last
> names differently due to a bureaucratic snafu in their native
> Colombia, but what they have in common is a lifetime of
> collecting history from a time before their country was a
> country.
>
> Efraim, 57, and Angelo, 53, were born and raised in the city of
> Cali. They were successful ranchers who bought and sold
> artifacts,....
>
> "It's like if you are reading a good mystery book and someone
> before you has ripped out pages indiscriminately," Flynn says.
> "History is a precious thing. You just don't sell it."
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