Saturday, February 28, 2009

confederate provenience


SO the other night i had a dream that my civil war and reconstruction class had us doing a scavenger hunt for civil war artifacts on the Rutgers University campus, in Camden. My group and I went down the City Hall PATCO station for our search. Now in waking life, there's a crazy creepy gated off, tunnel like hallway down there. For example, it's always leaking and wet in there, even when it's not raining outside...creepy.) SO in the dream we were digging around in that hallway (a place i would really like to hunt around in, though maybe not alone). And we uncover this amazing archeological feature. just behind the tile wall was a huge bank of soldier's locker-like cubby holes. In each of these compartments were those purple Crown Royal bags (this is a dream after all....) all of them containing piles of confederate cash. Just tons of it. My class mates freak out and just start pocketing the cash, as if they had just won the lottery. I however was totally upset for 2 reasons. Why didn't understand that this currency held no value? and More importantly. they were fucking up the archaeological provenience of this feature!!!!! You can't MOVE anything when you first find it less risk losing seriously valuable information!!!! I was just yelling and yelling at them to stop touching everything and to put it back exactly how they found it and no one as listening!
I woke up in a sweat of anger and frustration. Along with a renewed curiosity for the creeptastic hallway in the train station.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

My grandmother has confederate bills. Effing weird as hell!

-Susan

sarah said...

really?! i might need to see them!

Anonymous said...

Confederate dollars have some serious monetary value on the collector's market. You might want to check out that tunnel after all. I'm in...
D-

Heathe said...

That tunnel! I know! I always wanted to check it out. I also wanted to get off at that closed stop just over the bridge.