Sorry if anyone has already posted about this while I was away ... I haven't checked the archives. The February 1994 issue of _The Grapevine_ (News from the Smithsonian Forum on Material Culture) contains several items of potential interest to this list. The three main (short) articles are "The Stuff People are Made Of: Musing on Issues of Community-Based Collecting" by Steven Cameron Newsome, "Waltzing with Walt" by Tom Freudenheim (more on Disney in VA, etc.), and "Gem, Jewel, and Icon: Looking at the Hope Diamond" by Adrienne Kaeppler. This newsletter also briefly reports on the charter meeting of the Material Culture Studies Caucus of the American Studies Association on November 4, 1993 in Boston. The Material Culture Caucus has a new email network called ARTIFACT. To subscribe to ARTIFACT, send email to Listserv at UMDD.UMD.EDU. Put nothing in the subject line; the message should read "Subscribe ARTIFACT (your name)," all on one line. About _The Grapevine_: to get on the mailing list contact Cindy Ott (202) 357-2781; for questions and suggestions contact Carla Borden (202) 287-3540. The Chairman of the Smithsonian Forum on Material Culture is Cynthia Adams Hoover (202) 357-1707.