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<p>[QUOTE="morgen94, post: 3602379, member: 217"]I typed a reply, but don't see it posted, so I will try again and if the first one shows up, please accept my apologies and give it a shrug.</p><p><br /></p><p>What I wrote originally is that it has been my happy experience to have seen the items go to people who are extremely enthusiastic about what they picked up here. The students of a local teacher all waved and cheered when I dropped off one more part that belonged to something the teacher took for her class; a local artist, who makes wonderful masks, needed a sample with shoulders and was beyond excited to pick up one of my half-mannequins--with shoulders; one woman homeschools her children and sent me a photo of something her sons made with a kit she picked up from me; one woman is a laid-off Broadway costumer and takes every single sewing and vintage clothing item I offer; one woman is picking up a maple sap bag to teach her children how Native Americans made syrup from maple sap--and a local man who harvests maple sap from his backyard offered to help her. It has been quite terrific experience for all of us. </p><p><br /></p><p>Also, years ago I became friends with a man who had one of the best--if not THE best--collections of antique items local to the state in which he lived. Professors from nearby universities would bring their students to visit and learn. He also had a rare item made by my great-great-great grandfather and while he wouldn't sell it to me I asked him to give me first dibs on it if he ever decided to sell it. The next time I saw the SOLD piece was in the list of auction results, when he died and his estate was sold off. I realized that it is all, as the Lion King song says so poignantly, the circle of life.</p><p><br /></p><p>That circle includes museums, too, as museums have to churn their collections when something is redundant or they need to upgrade to a better iteration of something in their collection. As I was intimately involved in a small museum, my first choice would be to give things to a museum, if appropriate, and I have done so many, many times. Many more times, though, museums tell me they don't need or want my item in their collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, yes, my sympathies are with those of you who encourage me to rehome it in some better way, but I came to realize the joy I see in the faces of the people to whom I give these things is priceless...and THANKS to you all![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="morgen94, post: 3602379, member: 217"]I typed a reply, but don't see it posted, so I will try again and if the first one shows up, please accept my apologies and give it a shrug. What I wrote originally is that it has been my happy experience to have seen the items go to people who are extremely enthusiastic about what they picked up here. The students of a local teacher all waved and cheered when I dropped off one more part that belonged to something the teacher took for her class; a local artist, who makes wonderful masks, needed a sample with shoulders and was beyond excited to pick up one of my half-mannequins--with shoulders; one woman homeschools her children and sent me a photo of something her sons made with a kit she picked up from me; one woman is a laid-off Broadway costumer and takes every single sewing and vintage clothing item I offer; one woman is picking up a maple sap bag to teach her children how Native Americans made syrup from maple sap--and a local man who harvests maple sap from his backyard offered to help her. It has been quite terrific experience for all of us. Also, years ago I became friends with a man who had one of the best--if not THE best--collections of antique items local to the state in which he lived. Professors from nearby universities would bring their students to visit and learn. He also had a rare item made by my great-great-great grandfather and while he wouldn't sell it to me I asked him to give me first dibs on it if he ever decided to sell it. The next time I saw the SOLD piece was in the list of auction results, when he died and his estate was sold off. I realized that it is all, as the Lion King song says so poignantly, the circle of life. That circle includes museums, too, as museums have to churn their collections when something is redundant or they need to upgrade to a better iteration of something in their collection. As I was intimately involved in a small museum, my first choice would be to give things to a museum, if appropriate, and I have done so many, many times. Many more times, though, museums tell me they don't need or want my item in their collection. So, yes, my sympathies are with those of you who encourage me to rehome it in some better way, but I came to realize the joy I see in the faces of the people to whom I give these things is priceless...and THANKS to you all![/QUOTE]
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