Charlotte,
the Vermont WhaleCharlotte,
the Vermont WhaleJeff thought it would be wonderful to create a sort of virtual museum that the students could visit any time. Such a museum would also save him quite a bit of leg work, assuming that the virtual museum could travel to the schools rather than he.
We managed to get a little bit of money and started assembling Jeff's slides, pictures, and stories into a Hypercard stack that might someday make it onto a CD-ROM.
Then I discovered the World Wide Web.
We also had a vision that, as the project grew and more and more Vermont school children got a look at it, they themselves would add to the project, contributing their own documents as they went digging around their homes and playgrounds looking for rocks and bones.
Since then, however, our funds have run dry. Jeff is now Director of Exhibits and Programs at the North Museum of Natural History and Science in Lancaster, PA.
So here it sits, incomplete and wanting attention. Charlotte, The Vermont Whale Website has itself become fossilized. Maybe someday a pile of money will drop from the sky, and we'll fill in the blanks. Maybe someday, it will fade away altogether. Either way, it's been fun.
