Nija
12-05-2002, 03:36 PM
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/news/12502_gwchip.html
Wilmington, DE December 5, 2002 — A prized chip of wood from the boat that carried George Washington across the Delaware River in 1776 is missing.
The curator of the Historical Society of Delaware's collection, Timothy Mullin, has searched the society's Delaware History Museum on Wilmington's Market Street. But he could not find the historic piece of wood.
Everything in the collection is numbered and cataloged on a computer. But Mullin suspects the wood chip -- the first object donated to the Historical Society of Delaware when it was founded in 1864 -- was filed incorrectly by an intern.
Finding the chip could prove challenging. The basement has tens of thousands of historical items on shelves and inside cabinets in ten-thousand square feet of storage space.
:heh: damn interns... first they screw the president, now they screw history...
Wilmington, DE December 5, 2002 — A prized chip of wood from the boat that carried George Washington across the Delaware River in 1776 is missing.
The curator of the Historical Society of Delaware's collection, Timothy Mullin, has searched the society's Delaware History Museum on Wilmington's Market Street. But he could not find the historic piece of wood.
Everything in the collection is numbered and cataloged on a computer. But Mullin suspects the wood chip -- the first object donated to the Historical Society of Delaware when it was founded in 1864 -- was filed incorrectly by an intern.
Finding the chip could prove challenging. The basement has tens of thousands of historical items on shelves and inside cabinets in ten-thousand square feet of storage space.
:heh: damn interns... first they screw the president, now they screw history...