I was out of town for a few weeks, so I'm behind on reading e-mails.
Don't want to miss out on anything, you know.  So this is a response to
a 2-week old message:

To Alan and others who share similar experiences.  These stories are one
of the reasons I stay with the List.  Besides learning from the working
experience of colleagues, I see a personal side to history and
artifacts.

Thanks,
Jerrie Clarke
Valdez Museum
Alaska


>From: Alan Heaberlin <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: I love this list--Czech Fez
>Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 07:39:29 -0800
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Museum discussion list
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
>> Behalf Of Eric Siegel
>> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 1999 6:45 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: I love this list--Czech Fez
>>
>>
>> This list is incredible...
>>
>>
>> " Does anyone know why
>> a GI might have acquired a fez shaped
>> hat in Czechoslovakia?"
>>
>>
>>
>> Eric Siegel
>> Director, Planning &
>> Program Development
>> The New York Hall of Science
>> http://www.nyhallsci.org
>>
>When I was a young boy (about 7 years) while
>visiting relatives, my parents dropped me off at a
>theatre in Fresno, CA to see a matinee of the
>newly released movie "The Ten Commandments."
>Unfortunately, they didn't realize that the movie
>was a special showing for the Shriners that
>afternoon. Being an independant little cuss, they
>had turned me loose with ticket and popcorn money
>and sped away. The lady in the box office was
>adamant that no one got in who wasn't a Shriner.
>Finally I was rescued by an enormously tall man
>wearing a red fez. He took me in as his guest and
>upon entering the theatre I saw a literal ocean of
>red fezs. There were 400 Shriners wearing them and
>they would only take them off while the movie was
>playing. Quite an experience!
>So the posting of the Czech fez brought back a
>deeply embedded memory of the unique headgear I
>remember so well. The movie was pretty cool too.
>Excuse the off-topic posting but I thought the
>anecdote might bring a moment of lightness to our
>overworked day.
>
>Alan Heaberlin
>Business Manager/Coordinator
>California Institute For Peruvian Studies
>http://www.buffalorun.com/cips
>

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