On Fri, 22 Mar 1996, Martha Battle wrote:

> 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.

   This is a lighter note?  What would a heavier one be like?

   Hank Burchard * <[log in to unmask]> * Washington DC