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Re: strange reference questions



I am not making this up ....

Monday, I had a call from a woman seeking further info on a "newspaper"
article she'd read about a Confederate man who had created a nuclear bomb
but was killed before he could detonate it.  Being the astute archivist that
I am, I surmised that the "newspaper" in question was - you guessed it - the
Weekly World News.  For those of you wishing to further your education:
http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/features/revelations_story.cfm?instanceid=388
40

Then there was the photo researcher for a publishing company that will
remain nameless, wanting a color photo of the slaves building the Santee
Canal in the late 18th century.

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Julia Logan
Assistant Archivist - The Charleston Museum
360 Meeting Street
Charleston, SC 29403
(843) 722-2996 x244
jlogan@charlestonmuseum.org
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Russell Baker" <russell.baker@MAIL.STATE.AR.US>
To: <ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 10:01 AM
Subject: strange reference questions


> Listers:
>
> Here I go again. I am chair of a panel discussion at our upcoming SAA
> meeting on archival reference services. I am collection "strange"
"strange"
> and "stranger" reference questions you might have received. One of my
> strangest was a man who called seeking the "secret" formula for making a
> certain kind of hot dog called a "cheese dog", the process of which was
lost
> when the inventor was killed in a plane crash. And then there was the man
> who came into the Research Room with a live bird on his shoulder ...
>
> Thanks.
>
> Russell P. Baker, CA
> Arkansas History Commission and State Archives
> One Capitol Mall
> Little Rock, AR 72201
> 501-682-6900
> www.ark-ives.com
> russell.baker@mail.state.ar.us <mailto:russell.baker@mail.state.ar.us>
>
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