At 04:10 PM 2/19/98 -0600, you wrote:

>Didn't get in on the beginning of this but if the original was an
>inquiry into the ways others label for children, you might want to look
>at the "Children's Level" labeling in our Austin Colony exhibit.  What
>won't be apparent from the web presentation is that these label are
>monted about three feet from the floor on slant boards.

At the Women's Memorial at Arlington Cemetary, we didn't plan it this way
but our "Reader rails" that have medals, documents and explainations of
what is in the exhibit case are the perfect height for children.  I led a
group of Brownies and Juniors through the Memorial and the kids paid little
attention to what was right in front of their faces in the cases but were
facinated by the things on the rails.  I think they are about 3  feet off
the ground as well.

>Before we proceeded to install these we passed them buy a child
>psycholigist from Children's Protective Services next door to advise on
>their appropriatness (some subject matter dealt with slaves and native
>Americans and might have been demeaning).  She approved all but one.

I don't mean to sound crass, but the subject of slavery is inherently
demeaning.  I would think that any exhibit that includes the subject would
show this in order to educate people on how awful the conditions were and
why it should never be repeated.  How can you have an exhibit with slavery
without that?

Deb Fuller