Jimbo DP;

Actually it was as an early tween on seeing what I vaguely remember as 
the hunter's hut at Colonial Williamsburg that I got hooked on this 
sometimes damnable career. As I rmember not too far off from when I hit 
you so accuratly in the eye with a green apple thrown off a stick... 
which the thread on cannon accuracy has me thinkin' about. A big issue 
w/ restored villages is authenticity of the fabric. Either it has it, 
and I think particularly for those of us in the 'trades perspective' it 
is the barf index when it does not, but purports to have it just the 
same when it very obviously does not. Then again there is just something 
incredibly compelling about the coyote/trickster aspect of faux historic 
rendering.

A friend not on this list told me last night, while I was sitting on the 
LIRR waiting for a bus as there was another fatality (pedestrian 
trespasser fatality at Islip... whatever the hell that is) that he is 
well along in removing  the 600 series blocks in the cornice of 1000 or 
more blocks on whatever building it is... can you hear me now? cell 
phone degradation static to noise... and on the backside of one block 
found initials and name date 1853 as crisp and clean in pencil as the 
Getty could dream of... whereas he says the Penn dendochronologists 
dated the work post-civil infarcation unpleasantness. That there is 
authenticity where the trades recorded themselves in a self-documenting 
time capsule.

There is this dinner north of FBF in Brooklyn that has parrots nesting 
in a colony on top of a pole next to a transformer. I'd like to know the 
history of that.

][< JL

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