On the Conservation of Champions | Smithsonian Institution Archives Every once in a while, a curve ball gets thrown across conservation's home plate. In preparation for their exhibit, *Native Olympians<http://nmai.si.edu/olympics/> *, my colleagues at the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) asked if I could step in as a pinch hitter to assist on the extraction of the contents of a box . . . of Wheaties. This familiar iconic object of material culture, which features the equally iconic Jim Thorpe and autographs of his direct descendents, elicited so much interest that the Smithsonian Magazine chose it as a "National Treasure<http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Why-Are-Jim-Thorpes-Olympic-Records-Still-Not-Recognized.html#]>" and produced a conservation-focused video to accompany their story about the champion athlete's Olympian legacy. http://bit.ly/NkOdbA Source: http://siarchives.si.edu/blog/conservation-champions?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+si/vrZU+(The+Bigger+Picture)&utm_content=Google+Reader<http://siarchives.si.edu/blog/conservation-champions?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+si/vrZU+%28The+Bigger+Picture%29&utm_content=Google+Reader> See if people are clicking on this link: http://bit.ly/NkOdbA+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar -- Peter Kurilecz CRM CA [log in to unmask] Richmond, Va http://twitter.com/RAINbyte http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/RAINbyte/ http://paper.li/RAINbyte/rainbyte http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/archives/ http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/records-management/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/peterakurilecz Information not relevant for my reply has been deleted to reduce the electronic footprint and to save the sanity of digest subscribers List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message. mailto:[log in to unmask]