The Claw

Yesterday I spent six hours going through one cigar box full of things I will never be able to be convinced were worth having. Half of it was buttons that I had individually describe and number! But I did find this fork which I just think is the coolest thing ever haha. I don't know how well the picture captures it, but it looks more like a scary hand out of a horror movie than a fork.


So we have completely finished going over the things in the museum that were already put into the database and now are going back to the beginning of the collection and starting those entries from scratch. Problem is, we don't always know what the hell it is we are looking at, especially when it comes to stuff like the farm tools. My supervisor has said she is going to set up a day where we have some old farmers come in to help us figure those out, but for a lot of things we just have to do our best. Try figuring out what material a button the size of a pea is made from... It should be interesting though to have the farmers there, although I highly doubt it will be our most productive day. I'm sure there will be plenty of stories of "Of my father had one of these..." type. Small towns really are their own worlds.