Just last week I had a teacher ask me to not talk about an item in our collection when she visited with her fifth grade class. We have an infant's grave marker at our local-history museum, that was found in someone's backyard, but was apparently originally stolen from a small, Rev-War-era family cemetery in town. I usually talk to the classes about what it was like to be a child in our town, through the centuries, and we have used that headstone to talk about how better hygiene and advances in medicine have given us longer lives. I used to ask the students what they thought were some of the reasons the young child might have died those many years ago. The teacher felt that 9/11 was still having an impact on the class (most of the town commutes to jobs in NYC) and she didn't want me to bring up the subject of death. I ignored the stone when they came, but had prepared a Power Point presentation that included a photo of that old cemetery and an image of one of the oldest stones. I tend to feel that we are now far removed from what is an inevitable thing for us all -- death -- and that the historic perspective, wherein families would "picnic" in the family cemetery is a far healthier attitude. How do you feel about her request and what would you have done? Lynne ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).