10/27: Rosa Parks' bus

warch · 10-27-2001, 08:55 PM

It is really interesting when a everyday thing, junk, becomes so resonant. Even if its not possible to definitely authenticate it, the story of Parks is so powerful, the museum must be thrilled to have new means to retell it. It adds an emotional element- like a saint's bone (maybe) in a reliquary box.

Part of the famous lunch counter is in the Smithsonian (I think)

It reminds me of an exhibit at the Holocaust museum in DC. It's a display of victim's shoes.

10-27-2001, 08:55 PM	#5
warch lurkin old school Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Minnesota Posts: 2,796	It is really interesting when a everyday thing, junk, becomes so resonant. Even if its not possible to definitely authenticate it, the story of Parks is so powerful, the museum must be thrilled to have new means to retell it. It adds an emotional element- like a saint's bone (maybe) in a reliquary box. Part of the famous lunch counter is in the Smithsonian (I think) It reminds me of an exhibit at the Holocaust museum in DC. It's a display of victim's shoes.

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