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Collection of Disinfected Mail
When I first saw the link for the World's Largest Collection of Disinfected
Mail, I first thought it had something to do with the current Anthrax-laced
mail floating around the States, but no:
> Fear of the mail is nothing new, as the Pearson Museum's disinfected mail
> exhibit illustrates. The museum contains the world's largest collection of
> disinfected mail, accumulated by the late Emmet F. Pearson. Barbara Mason,
> curator of the museum, filled us in on failed attempts through history to
> sterilize filthy missives from infectious letter writers. We were more
> attentive to her leeches, bloodletting display and the mercury-preserved
> human hand [1] at the time. But given the current public curiosity about
> separating junk mail from Jihad germs, we returned to our notes.
>
Emmet F. Pearson Collection of Disinfected Mail [2]
Now, how did I come across this facinating piece of history? Well, the site I
linked to in my last entry [3] is a list of Florida's Lost Tourist
Attractions [4]. Which lead to Xanadu: Home of the Future [5] and a quick
Google search [6] took me to The Last Xanadu [7] at Roadside America [8]
where I found the afore mentioned link to disinfecting mail.
Forget Disney, [9] these lost treasures of an America gone by are way cooler.
And a reminder that there still is nothing new under the sun. Even
disinfecting mail.
[1]
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/ILSPRleech.html
[2]
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/sight.html
[3]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2001/10/30.3
[4]
http://www.lostparks.com/
[5]
http://www.lostparks.com/xanadu.html
[6]
http://www.google.com/search?q=Xanadu%3A+Home+of+the+Future&btnG=Google+Search
[7]
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/set/xanadu.html
[8]
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/
[9]
http://www.disney.com/
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