Robert L. Schuyler wrote:
".... this intrusion of the marker place is certainly counterbalanced
by the fact that most of such items would
have never ended up in the local historical society but would have gone
into the trash and been lost forever."
No! Please keep in mind that most of what goes in the trash becomes the
archaeological deposits of the future, although ephemeral items such as
paper labels MAY be "lost forever."
Meli Diamanti
Archaeological & Historical Consultants, Inc.