Several people have contacted me and said that they did not get a copy of previous notices about
the Rocky Mount Children's Museums dilemma. I am enclosing some of it here to bring you all up
to date. Basically they lost the entire museum and all contents. The building is still standing
but everything else was discarded by the cleanup crews as contaminated. I have volunteered to
run interference for them while they handle all the daily drudgeries.
9-24-99 I just got off the telephone with Candy Madrid in Rocky Mount NC. They were flooded out
when the Tar River overflowed its banks. The Museum
building was under nine feet of water. Several of her staff, whose homes were in the flood zone
lost everything they had. Not a pretty picture.
As far as what they need "YOU NAME IT". All records and paperwork, including computers, fax
machines, copy machines, telephones etc. Were
lost. They can use any office machinery from simple typewriters to computers. She wants to try
and keep at a minimum the museum outreach intact and can use and type of art materials that are
available.
They're not sure of the building's fate but all permanent exhibits were lost. They had just
started a remodeling project and had put allot of there exhibits in tractor trailers for safe
keeping from all of the construction dust. Needless to say the trailers floated for awhile then
sank.
9-26-99 Rocky Mount Children's Museum
Thanks to all that have called and e-mailed me. Keep the suggestions coming and contacts.
With respect to the monitory contributions please note the following change.
Send all contributions to:
Friends of the Rocky Mount Children's Museum
Care of
Melanie Marshall-Parks
1738 Green Meadow Lane
Rocky Mount, North Carolina 27804
(Please donot send any contributions to me)
More to Come Later.
Date: 10/22/99 09:19:51
Subject: Rocky Mount Children's Museum"Collection"
The following list "Collection", are items that were salvaged from the Rocky Mount Children's
Museum. These items are all that is left from their 16,000 +/-square foot museum. All other
items were remove and disposed of as contaminated including one traveling exhibit. As you can
see there isn't much left.
I have arranged the list by item number (#), number of items per item number (1) (12) (etc.),
items that are already pledged for and company responsible for repairing / cleaning of the item
(???)and item description. What we need to do now is to get as many museums to pick some of
these items and arrange to have them restored (if possible) to as near as new condition.
Remember these items were under nine feet of water and have been exposed to the air for more
than a month. Some items will probably be lost forever.
If you notice items # 1,4,22,60,73,83,89,90,91,92,99,107,117,118,131,135,146and 207 have already
been taken. I have arranged for several local groups to take these items and repair / restore
them as best they can. The (AND) listed under responsible for is me Architects in Design. When
an item is taken I will put that institution name in parentheses and on the next publishing of
the list your name will appear for that item. Lets try to get all items spoken for as quickly as
possible.
Remember:
1.If you wish to send any monetary contributions to the museum:
Send all contributions to(not to Me or AYM):
Friends of the Rocky Mount Children's Museum
Care of
Melanie Marshall-Parks
1738 Green Meadow Lane
Rocky Mount, North Carolina 27804
2. All office equipment and normal operation equipment were taken to the dump and buried as
contaminated items. So they can use almost anything. If you have some items that you feel can be
used send me a list of these items and I'll set up a donation list for all to see what has been
pledged to or donated.
3. I'll have to find out how to ship these items to people too far away to drive to Rocky Mount
N.C. to pick up the items Any Ideas?
More to come! Comments to
Bill Greaves President
Architects iN Design
1232 Wivenhoe Court
Va. Beach, Virginia 23454
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(757) 496-6489
Collections
# number responsible Description of items
of items For
1. 2 (AND) circus train cars from the Bishop collection
2. 1 box of NASA medallions
3. 1 fire alarm control box
4. 123 (AND) wooden wagons from the Bishop collection
5. 1 1906 tax book
6. 1 old fashioned straw broom
7. 1 wooden box with Chinese carved figured
8. 1 jet and brass necklace
9. 1 iron waffle iron for fireplace
10. 1 diceratherium jaw
11. 2 box of pieces of diceratherium jaw
12. 2 children's chemistry sets in metal boxes
13. 1 box of Mexican dolls
14. 6 Masonic masks
15. 1 wpa Calvary diorama - very bad condition
16. 1 iron grinder
17. 1 rocks in metal case
18. 2 fossils in metal case
19. 1 VVW 11 artillery shell
20. 1 Edgecombe Co. fire helmet
21. 1 (AND) train station from the Battle Train Collection
22. 1 (AND) building with wiring from Battle Train Collection
23. 2 glass flasks
24. 1 spectacles
25. 7 whale vertebrae of varying sizes
26. 1 Edison poster set
27. 1 globe stand
28. 1 movie reel
29. 1 mounted stamp collection, or stamp collection poster
30. 1 box of stone points
31. 1 box of tobacco tags (? - we could not open box)
32. 1 canvas collection bucket
33. 3 old typewriters
34. 3 spears
35. 5 drawers of fossils
36. 1 whale scapula
37. 7 pieces of petrified wood
38. 2 herbaria - Jack Bennett Jr. 1936
39. 1 herbarium
40. 1 coconut iron
41. 1 fireplace griddle handle and ring
42. 1 wooden mortar
43. 1 drawer of sharks' teeth
44. 1 wooden and iron carpenter's plane
45. 2 box of pottery shards
46. 1 coffee can of rock crystals
47. 1 wood carving
48. 1 box of bird study skins
49. 1 oriental basket with artificial flowers
50. 3 drawers of seashells
51. 1 buck saw
52. I iron Dutch oven with lid for fireplace
53. I iron griddle for fireplace
54. 2 signal lanterns
55. 3 small gourds
56. 1 horse skull
57. 2 wildlife prints (hawk and deer)
58. 1 top of shell cabinet
59. 1 coffee can of shells
60. 1 (AND) lot train track from Battle Train Collection
61. 1 driftwood
62. 1 horse bit
63. I stirrup
64. 3 mounted raccoons
65. 10 Jr. Guild puppet heads
66. 1 bag of Junior Guild puppet clothes
67. I box of textiles
68. 13 Junior Guild puppets
69. 8 boxes of rocks
70. 2 boxes of puppet head casts
71. I antique travel chest
72. 1 box of Indian artifacts
73. 1 (AND) loading platform from Battle Train Collection
74. I vulture mount
75. I deer skull
76. 3 deer head mounts
77. 3 bags of mounted photos
78. 4 swords
79. 105 miscellaneous books (discarded?)
80. 1 fossil cabinet with fossils
81. 1 packet of museum photos
82. I kerosene pump
83. I (AND) large wagon from Bishop Collection
84. 1 conestoga wagon diorama
85. 1 stone bowl
86. 2 old-fashioned office machine
87. 5 iron tools
88. 2 plow shares
89. 18 (AND) train cars from the Battle Train Collection
90. 3 (AND) train engines from the Battle Train Collection
91. 11 (AND) small train cars
92. 3 (AND) pieces of train track from the Bishop Wagon Collection
93. 1 living marsh model
94. 1 mounted fox
95. 2 boxes of dolls
96. I WW 11 radio
97. 5 ethnic tools
98. I fish cast
99. 1 (AND) train transformer
100. 1 ice hook
101. 1 box of fire dept. Files
102. 1 wooden pedestal
103. 2 cypress stumps
104. 2 whale ribs
105. 1 tree stump with birds nest
106. I mounted cardinals on dogwood
107. 1 (AND) Bishop wagon id board
108. 1 sickle or thresher wooden
109. I fire alarm diagram
110. I set of paper flowers
111. 1 cannon ball
112. 24 miscellaneous dolls
113. 1 schematic for electromagnetic repeater
114. I News and Observer headline page
115. 4 shell cabinet drawers empty
116. 2 balalaikas from Russian dolls
117. I (AND) plastic donkey from Bishop Wagon Collection
118. 2 (AND) plastic horses from Bishop Wagon Collection
119. 1 old-fashioned laundry tub
120. 1 box of preservation supplies
121. 1 model battleship kit
122. 1-lots miscellaneous fossils, some in boxes
123. 3 duck mounts (1 with two ducks)
124. 1 shell casing
125. 2 spinning wheels wheels
126. I complete carousel horse orange
127. 1 carousel horse - dissembled and stripped of paint
128. 3 Japanese dolls
129. I phytosaur skull (replica)
130. 1 Thai child's hat
131. 1 (AND) wooden tower from Battle Train Collection
132. 3 boxes of Ediphone wax cylinders
133. 1 box antiques tools and clothes
134. 1 pair of crutches
135. 1 (AND) wagon from Bishop Wagon Collection - badly crushed
136. 1 leaf collection
137. 12 mounted animals
138. 1 wooden plane
139. 1 box of historical stuff
140. I flagpole base
141. I world globe destroyed
142. 1 tobacco cutter
143. 1 clay pat
144. I army clothes
145. I bag of sharks' teeth and shells
146. 17 (AND)mechanical banks
147. 1 side saddle
148. 1 doll house destroyed
149. 1 spinning wheel parts
150. 1 coffee grinder
151. 1 corn Sheller
152. I wooden tool destroyed
153. 1 bag of cork bark
154. 4 bayonet's
155. 5 military helmets
156. 1 carrier ?
157. 1 flashlight
158. 1 canteen
159. 1 small cannon ball
160. 1 box of miscellaneous articles
161. 6 newspapers
162. 2 swords
163. 2 walking stick a
164. 1 axe
165. 2 wool comb (carders?)
166. 1 stereoscopic viewer
167. 2 wooden whatyamaycallits
168. 1 sausage stuffer
169. 1 vegetable peeler
170. 1 drugstore medicine chopper
171. 1 coffee box
172. 1 box of miscellaneous metals
173. 1 fossil rack
174. 6 drawers of shells and fossils
175. 1 whale bone
176. 3 mounted birds
177. 4 hats
178. 2 quilts
179. 1 box whale vertebrae
180. 1 iron tool
181. 1 seed sower
182. 2 parking meters
183. 1 bicentennial flag
184. 16 drawers and boxes of rocks and minerals
185. 1 wooden drawer of oriental artifacts
186. 2 drawers of miscellaneous museum archives
187. 1 crossbow
188. 1 drawer of musical instrument parts
189. 1 drawer of Japanese artifacts
190. 1 drawer with herbarium
191. 1 drawer of centennial newspapers and historical artifacts
192. 2 postcard albums, one from Louise Pettit
193. 1 large stone mortar
194. 9 boxes of shells
195. 2 boxes of sharks' teeth
196. 1 lava rock (basalt?)
197. 3 fire alarm boxes
198. 1 bell
199. 1 chart locating fire alarm boxes
200. 1 box of wooden airplanes
201. 6 mounted animals
202. 1 pair of wooden clog shoes
203. 1 Governors Award
204. 1 bust of Vernon siechrest
205. 1 box of coral, crabs. other ocean items
206. 1 grass skirt
207. 2 (AND) carved wooden steers from the Bishop Wagon Collection
208. 3 butterfly collections
209. 1 octopus in a jar
210. 2 mounted weasels
211. 1 tobacco press
212. 3 roller presses
213. 1 drawer of wooden artifacts
214. 1 drawer of coral
215. 1 zebra skin stool - African
216. 6 oriental dishes
217. 1 German wooden box
218. 2 wooden ceremonial pieces
219. 1 fish mount
220. 1 turtle mount
221. 1 Junior Guild plaque
222. 1 wooden tote
223. 1 box of brass artifacts
224. 1 1977 time capsule
225. 1 wooden shield
226. 1 turkey tail feathers mounted in a fan on a board
227. 1 straw basket with chop sticks
228. 1 straw art flower
229. 1 Brain Games sign - destroyed
230. 2 elk antlers
231. 1 African animal skin shield
232. 1 mounted pheasant
233. 5 10' PVC pipe supports for maze
234. 1 telescope
235. 1 mounted muskrat
236. 1 mounted duck
237. 1 mounted prairie chicken
238. 3 American flags
239. 1 preserved lobster
240. 1 rosewood decanter
241. 1 Thai bible
242. 2 pairs of wooden ice skates
243. 3 war clubs
244. 2 wooden bows
245. 3 oriental figurines - two destroyed
246. 1 mounted pair of sandpipers
247. 1 oriental fan
248. 1 wildebeest skin
249. 1 yarn weasel
250. 1 pair of red shoes
251. 1 Balinese mask bird nest
252. 1 Thai child size yoke
253. 1 mounted fawn
254. 1 brain coral
255. 1 wooden knife
256. 6 graphic panels
257. 1 hand model
258. 1 box of shell buttons
259. 3 pieces of miscellaneous coral
260. 7 animal mounts
261. 5 large sponges
262. 1 Booneborough display, in miscellaneous pieces
263. 1 IV stand
264. 1 antique hair curling machine
265. 1 18 x 3x6'shelving metal
266. 9 reels/film'
267. 1 View Lex Model APOLLO ( planetarium star projector )
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