Re: The Moon Is Not Your Trash Bin

On Jun 3, 11:47 pm, "Peter Jason" <p...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I think the organization ought to pay for a cultural
resource
investigation of the site. It should only take a few
archaeologists on
the moon to map, photograph, measure and inventory the
cultural
elements (footprints, flag, rover, etc.)

I'd be willing to sign up for that bit of rescue
archaeology!

You could finance such a mission by selling copies of the
first step.

Such a copy would be priceless, since the first footprint
no longer
exists.  It was obliterated by all the foot traffic during
the mission.
However, I'm sure you could find several like it where
they only walked
once.  Most people wouldn't know the difference.

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There's no need to wish for the moon.
In my peregrinations around auction houses and even dumpster
bins I have seen tons of old photos and notebooks trashed
and wasted.   All that info gone for ever.  One example I
remember there were several large cartons stuffed with the
stock of an old photographer's firm, all large-frame photos
of superb quality of weddings and family shots, buildings
and God knows what else.  These ordinary images are
priceless because it's the sort of thing nobody records.

I have a large collection of those photo postcards that seem to have
been popular in the late 19th Century. Most of the people I don't
know, many have the obvious in the message section "us" or "John and
Margaret". I have some shots my father took in the 1917 era of Taos
and Ranches of Taos, tourist stuff. I sent his collection of pics when
he was in the Forest Service at a station near Flagstaff AZ to that
operation several years ago. They put them on their web site. The
trick is finding someone who appreciates the information and wants to
use the images.
.

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