On Fri, 26 May 2000, Mark Gregory wrote:
  It seems to me that increasingly, social
historians and museums are more
 interested in _how_ an artifact was used than in the thing itself... 
In fact, this is a subject I have been thinking about recently and I'm
hoping to commission a talk for the next VCF.  Any takers? 
Hmmm... that starts to sound interesting...  Perhaps a topic.
-jim