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[tondelayo]

This week, I heard one of the archaeologists get angry on the telephone and say, "It belongs in a museum

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[polander]

Replace "kittens" with "a vacation to San Diego to spend with Paul because he is the coolest and best Sailor ever!" and THEN you'll be on the right track!

[anonymous]

Sometimes all I want is kittens, too.

Is the Mission ever looking for books/texts? (I'm still unclear as to EXACTLY what the Mission is - is it a museum? does it have a library? what is its focus?)

[tondelayo]

The Mission is two things- A living history museum and historical site with reconstructed buildings and costumed "time interpreters" and an archaeological site with ongoing digs a lab to process artifacts. I work in the archaeological part. I've never heard of them looking for texts, but they do have a fairly large collection of relevant texts and there is a historian on staff who has published a few books.

[anonymous]

I know you've told me this. I think I'm just having trouble conceptualizing it. What are they digging for? Ok, I know, artifacts, but there must be something specifically cool there if it warrants a whole dig site, right? Are the time interpreters dressed in costumes from the time period surrounding the artifiacts the archaeologists are digging for? I'm kind of picturing the living history thing like that place... what is it, Colonial Williamsburg. Am I close?