I am dusting the six lighted shelves in our kitchen, in what was once a broom closet. All kinds of cool memory-souvenir-travel stuff:
• kachinas from the Hopi Mesa
• some awesome Maya statues from Coba, Uxmal, Tulum, Campeche and Chichen Itza
• pottery pieces from the ancient village above Agua Caliente, New Mexico
• a coffee cup from Cortez, Colorado near Mesa Verde
• a rug from Istanbul (OK OK we didn’t buy it, but it is a fun story)
• a stone statue from Portovenere (port of Venus) in Italy at the south end of Cinque Terra
• a carved Maya wall piece from Palenque in Chiapas
• a cowboy statue from Disney Land 1967
• a beautiful sandstone with a natural red heart from Capital Reef National Park in Utah
• four kachinas from Santa Fe, Canyon de Chelly, Gallup and Flagstaff
• a stone from the bottom of the Grand Canyon on the Colorado River
• three pieces of cholla wood from the cholla cactus of the hills of Albuquerque
• a salad bowl that has a piece of medical tape on it that says "Nora Bacon" in my mom's own handwriting
• four types of railroad spikes that held the wooden ties of the Old Colony Railroad that once ran to the Cape through our back yard (1845- 1939)
• a lava stone from Hawaii, and one from Phantom Ranch
• a small white Zeus or Poseidon bust from Athens
• beat-up Pusser's Landing BVI tin cup that once held a Pain Killer drink or two
• Sandy’s father's WWII medals and his cigarette lighter
• a piece of white coral from Isla Mujeres
• a slice of red rock from Sedona
• a flat wall rock from Connecticut that has imbedded fossils in it
• a 6,000-year-old spearhead that I found on a pool excavation on the North River
• a rectangle rock labeled "2001 Montana"
and
• a Mohawk Trail plate with an elk in the center that Rich Busa gave me 19 years ago. I have family photos with my father's father on that very site on the Mohawk Trail on Route 2, at the top of the Hoosac Mountain Range. Thank you.
