On Tue, 28 Jun 1994 09:34:29 EDT, <[log in to unmask]> ED PERSHEY wrote: >The best approach over all is to keep our sense of humor about all this. >. . . after that, my wife and I were walking in the local mall and I was >approached by a young person doing a marketing poll. She asked my profession, >and I told her "museum curator." After jotting down a few more bits of >info, she stopped short and asked "What was that 'c' word?" In 1979 Mississippi Governor-elect William Winter, an educator and excellent historian, was trying to convince the Legislature that the Governor's Executive Residence (a superb example of 1840s Greek Revival architecture _and_ a National Historic Landmark) required a full-time curator. During the floor debate one of the honorable representatives responded, "Why in heaven do we need a *curator*--nobody's died in that place fer years . . ." Needless to say, as the Mansion's first Curator (1980-84), I realized that--if for future funding alone--we had some work cut out for us! ANNE D. CZARNIECKI