When I became this museum's director, we dumped all the jugs of 'shine that
were in collections storage.  Emptied the Prohibition Era vodka & bourbon
bottles...
Ross Weeks Jr.
Historic Crab Orchard Museum & Pioneer Park
Tazewell, Va.
http://histcrab.netscope.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Feltus, Pamela" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 10:09 AM
Subject: Re: A Question for the Alcoholic List


> There must be a way, beyond planning a museum-l happy hour at AAM that the
> alcoholic tendencies on this list can be put to good.
>
> At my last job, we were working on the Archives and a Museum for Brown
> Forman, which seems to either make or market about every type of booze
(the
> samples that tempted in the Collections!), as well as fine china and
crystal
> brands. By the time I left, it seemed the museum wasn't going to become a
> reality, so don't get too excited planning field trips.
>
> But in the process of processing we ran into an interesting problem:
>         The alcohol. And by extension, all food products in collections.
Do
> you keep them intact or dispose of the contents and just keep the
packaging?
> There is the issue of alcohol, and some food, evaporating or emitting
scary
> gasses and hurting your collection. But the food itself might be important
> in the future. You might have the only sample of the original Old
Foresters
> KY Bourbon from 1870. Or a Twinkie. Or hardtack.
>         As much as I wanted to be in the front of the disposal line, I
also
> remembered a wine bottle from ancient Rome being found and the information
> that was gleaned from studying the contents. As much as I can remember,
the
> balance we struck was sealed bottles were kept intact and opened ones
> emptied.
>
> So, from a varying degree of purists, anyone have theories on this type of
> thing?
>
> And in defense of diet coke as a mixer- if you get used to it, regular
coke
> will just disgust you. For a diet coke drinker, there's nothing wrong with
> jack and diet coke!
>
>
>
> Pamela Feltus
> Curator
> National Museum of American Jewish Military History
> 1811 R Street NW, Washington DC 20009
> 202-265-6280 x201
>
> www.nmajmh.org
>
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