<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Dave<div><br></div><div>That is cool that you found the report. I never got to read it. I put a lot of work into applying for the grant and managing the process and logistics to get it done. Two The end result was decades of criticism for having been the person that got a government grant for the museum. </div><div><br></div><div>The report disappeared like a prop at the end of the ”raiders of the lost ark”. </div><div><br></div><div>Now we can glean it for a work plan. </div><div><br></div><div><br><div dir="ltr"><div>Terry Jones</div><div>Product Design Consultants</div><div><br></div><div>(617) 510-1444</div><div>Skype: terrykj</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Nov 16, 2019, at 3:23 PM, David Caldwell via Thursday <thursday@newsm.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">In 2002 the museum received a grant to have a qualified museum conservator some in and prepare a report on the museum's collections and buildings. We thought that report might have been lost, but in the Merriam's workshop last week we found a burned, wet, moldy copy!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">I cleaned and scanned the report and reconstructed the text--there is a lot in it that is relevant today. The main body of the report is attached. The photos and other attachments are too large to send in email, but they are in the museum's Dropbox space, and I'd be glad to share them with anyone who wants to read them--just let me know.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><br>Dave</span></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">[regarding the reconstruction: the report's author wasn't much of a speller and seems to have had a love/hate relationship with the whole English language. I've tried to correct his spelling, but the occasionally-mystifying sentences are just the way he wrote them.]</span></span><br></div></div></div>
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