Item: Discovery and the beginning of a mystification. Today I had some x-tra paint in the bottom of the bucket and I noticed the old lavatory painted last week had a board showing on top that could stand some paint. Once up there the dust and dirt was so nasty that it had to be an accumulation over a long long time. Who knew how long. Underneath the dirt was this sign -COLORED- in porcelain enamel. My head exploded when I turned it over. How did it get here and how long ago. This old building has some story but I would like to hear this one. Who scuttled this sign tossed onto the overhead and when and what was going through their mind at the time. The building we are working in has been an old mule drayage depot. Mules were kept in the back corner. Than a depot to load rail cars drawn through a pit in the ground and top loaded. (A railroad car remains in the pit and buried to this day). So this may have been a public place or a work place. Museum curator Jeff Currie shows where a silhouette exists that may have fit the sign. We are thinking it could be from the forties or fifties. This project is enjoyable for such a discovery!
The airplane now sets on a display stand and at the reflector box a process story board is getting ready to change out some reflectors and put on new linseed oil soaked blocks.
So we are all shoook up here in Wilson after the quake. This mantis was on the hood of the car when we came out of the movie "The Help" at 10:30PM. We had to evacuate the matinee. We almost had this critter into our hedge but he helicoptered off as we paused to spot a little fawn near the rec park. Signs and wonders? It's shaky.
0 comments:
Post a Comment