On Fri, 22 Mar 1996, Martha Battle wrote: > Years ago, while providing collections training to the staff of a small > museum in our state, I discovered some muddy 1940s soda pop bottles in an > artifact storage cabinet. When I questioned the "registrar" about how the > bottles got muddy, she told me she had buried those bottles & some others > in the back yard of the museum because the bottles "didn't look old > enough". Horrified, I immediately pulled in all available staff members & > organized a scavenger hunt for the remaining bottles. In spite of hours > of digging, we only recovered one of the seven missing bottles. Needless > to say, this person is no longer working in the museum field. This is a lighter note? What would a heavier one be like? Hank Burchard * <[log in to unmask]> * Washington DC