I'm going to explain why some of NARA's outreach programs just don't suit me. My main excuse is that I'm just too cool. Today, I was going thru a box when I found a smaller box. I obviously had to open the box. So I did, and I was temporarily horrified. I found teeth!!!! In shock, I immediately brought it to the attention of the staff.
I soon realized that it was not a human body part; I found the plaster cast of the inside of a guy's mouth. As it turns out, the teeth had been part of a file related to a painter who tried to enlist in 1906 but had too much work done on his lower jaw to eat meat. Therefore, he could not be accepted into the service.
Currently, the National Archives has a competition called I Found It In The National Archives. Its usually some new user who found their great great grandparent's record and wrote in to say how neat it was. NARA usually post the finds on their NARAtions blog. I would just like to point out that a) this is a total copy of SAA's I Found it in the Archives competition that ended a while back and b) I clearly find cooler stuff all the time! What's cooler: grandpa's record or his teeth?
I soon realized that it was not a human body part; I found the plaster cast of the inside of a guy's mouth. As it turns out, the teeth had been part of a file related to a painter who tried to enlist in 1906 but had too much work done on his lower jaw to eat meat. Therefore, he could not be accepted into the service.
Currently, the National Archives has a competition called I Found It In The National Archives. Its usually some new user who found their great great grandparent's record and wrote in to say how neat it was. NARA usually post the finds on their NARAtions blog. I would just like to point out that a) this is a total copy of SAA's I Found it in the Archives competition that ended a while back and b) I clearly find cooler stuff all the time! What's cooler: grandpa's record or his teeth?
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