Re: FW a notice for a dummy :-))

[Phil Bigelow <bigelowp@juno.com>]

I can't answer Mary's question, but on one of my many summer trips along
the Hi-Line, I finally was worn down by the museum's advertising sign so
I stopped in.

The building is rather small, and there isn't a lot of room for displays,
but what they had up was interesting.  The admission price was
$5.00/person (1990s-pricing).  Not expensive admission, but not cheap
either, because you can see everything in about 15 minutes.  When I was
there, the dino mummy hadn't been collected yet.

BTW: For anyone interested in experiencing small town Americana, driving
the Hi-Line is worth it.  The towns have remained largely unchanged since
the 1960s ("unchanged" in the good sense).  Watching the blazing summer
sun come up while I was eating pancakes, ham, and coffee in a 1940's
brick diner in downtown Havre is one of my fond memories.

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On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 12:30:12 -0400 (EDT) MKIRKALDY@aol.com writes:
> In a message dated 4/15/2005 9:24:01 PM Eastern  Standard Time,  
> Danvarner@aol.com writes:
> The newspaper story   states:
> 
> << "I'm a scientist, first and foremost," said Nate  Murphy,  the 
> Malta 
> paleontologist who helped find Leonardo and  publicly unveiled him 
> to great  
> fanfare in 2002. "A specimen like Leonardo,  he's  our marquis 
> specimen and  
> deserves to be studied. I am getting  all  sorts of pressure from 
> museums around  the 
> country to let them  take him  and do the research. They've got deep 
> pockets, 
> but once you  give a  specimen to another institution, it's hard to 
> get him 
> back."   >>
> 
> < Who are these deep-pocketed museums  around the   country so 
> willing to 
> snatch Leonardo from his rightful  home? America  wants to  know! 
> And so do I 
> because I've never met a  museum with deep  pockets or even  shallow 
> ones for 
> that matter. Signed,  DV, a marquis  specimen in his own  right.>
>  
> Who actually owns Leonardo and the other finds in the Judith River 
> Dinosaur  
> Institute/Phillips County Museum?  Mr. Murphy is also listed as the 
> new  
> curator of the Makoshika Dinosaur Museum.  
>  
> Mary
> 
>