March 23, 2000

I was faced with that three or four years ago, when in Maryland they dug up
some of the 17th century Calvert family to study them.  They were my wife's
ancestors but she wasn't bothered a bit.  I was the one who didn't like it.


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>Mummies are being repatriated regularly to their
>native peoples for appropriate burial/handling.  What
>we are so intrigued by gives such alarm and so
>disturbs certain segments of the population from which
>the mummies derive, so I guess, perhaps, one of
>us--without trying to be the skunk at the
>picnic--needs to remember to be sensitive about this
>topic.
>
>I guess it would be a question of if it were in your
>ancestral heritage or lineage.  Would you want your
>great-great-great-great-a thousand times
>great-relative hanging out in that condition for the
>world to see?

>Indigo Nights
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-Jim Lyons

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