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from “Miss Savoy’s Memorial Museum: Carolina Coast” by Kim Stafford, via VQR: Honey, I’m so glad you saw fit to stop in, here at the Memorial Museum, or what I like to call privately, My Mama’s Museum. Let’s close that door so we won’t be bothered by the sun. I love to show strangers these few historical items. I’m so grateful to the people of this county for letting me use the old high school gymnasium to share these treasures of history with travelers like yourself. This building was used for education originally, I always say, and it’s still used for education today, in the form of these exhibits. Why, follow the sweep of my hand, young man, for your first sweet marvel at the fine, old dresses and uniforms, the flags and feathers, the tin mouse jewelry, shells and stones and bells and bones, the jungle spears and China dolls, our own local mummy child, cradle and bed, coffin box and calf head double, dental chair, skeleton, peeling machine, loom, churn, and that thicket of things unseen in the back. We’ll come to those in due time, every one. You do have time to see it all, don’t you?

from “Miss Savoy’s Memorial Museum: Carolina Coast” by Kim Stafford, via VQR:

Honey, I’m so glad you saw fit to stop in, here at the Memorial Museum, or what I like to call privately, My Mama’s Museum. Let’s close that door so we won’t be bothered by the sun. I love to show strangers these few historical items. I’m so grateful to the people of this county for letting me use the old high school gymnasium to share these treasures of history with travelers like yourself. This building was used for education originally, I always say, and it’s still used for education today, in the form of these exhibits. Why, follow the sweep of my hand, young man, for your first sweet marvel at the fine, old dresses and uniforms, the flags and feathers, the tin mouse jewelry, shells and stones and bells and bones, the jungle spears and China dolls, our own local mummy child, cradle and bed, coffin box and calf head double, dental chair, skeleton, peeling machine, loom, churn, and that thicket of things unseen in the back. We’ll come to those in due time, every one. You do have time to see it all, don’t you?

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