[Rockhounds] Disposing of collections

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

On Thursday, Jan 15, 2009, at 01:40 America/Detroit, tango juli wrote:

> Axel commented on those who will have to dispose of our collections 
> (children usually, fire dept in other cases) in our wake. Recently out 
> in the desert somewhere, friends and I discovered a dump pile in the 
> middle of nowhere onprivate land to be developed soon. Someone just 
> opened up the tailgate and pressed eject. We totally enjoyed it, but 
> it was like an archaeological dig, and we learned a lot about the 
> former owner. My friends were thrilled to dig thru the historic bottle 
> collection dating back to the 1890s and found slabs with cab outlines 
> someone once planned to cut, jade, and other locality peices my 
> friends recognized with breathless excitement. We found beautiful 
> geodes and hunks of vivid chrysocolla that were dumped along with the 
> detritus of a garage--wheel ramps, an old push sweeper, a 70s bicycle, 
> a broom, old oil cans, etc. I found a collection of tabasco bottles, 
> and very old pop bottle collection. I found what turned out to be a 
> nice
>  hunk of turquoise. The 1950s coleman lamp and 1970s olive oil can are 
> now part of my historic junk collection.
> The tin cooking utensils were mended by someone practically minded, 
> but the assemblage was a reminder that someday someone will see much 
> of our uncatelogued boxes and crates of unlabelled rocks and minerals 
> as junk to be disposed of (with the exception of Kreigh :). My fiance 
> has a list of a couple people to call in case of my demise to dispose 
> of my collection. Hopefully they will remember where I've been, 
> because I've been lazy in the last year or two of labelling stuff. 
> (smile)
> And instead of reading email, playing with topo maps and planning my 
> next trip, maybe I need to be out cleaning out my garage which is now 
> a shrine to collecting....
> ...tina
>
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