He'd come to Vegas with a single angle of desire, the guitar a prop, but Beth might as well be a rock floating out in space and even the artifact office had seemed like some cold and solitary lunar world.
While a casino office manager, she collected artifacts for the museum she opened in 1989 to celebrate this gritty survivor of a community, a former mining camp that has refused to crumble into a ghost town like so many of its contemporaries.
"It read 'Gentlemen, start your snails,' " recalled Mr. Nelson, a Stanford graduate whose artifact-rich office shows an abiding interest in anthropology.
I vaguely recall cultural artifacts in his office, but cannot remember exactly what they were.
His office is cluttered with local artifacts: a mug from the Third Annual Amish Relief Auction; an old sign reading, "Cattaraugus Chowder & Marching Society".
Inside the museum, the poet's voice was piped into his office to eerie effect; photographs, artifacts, manuscripts and even his glasses, set on his desk, perpetuated the feeling that he might suddenly appear.
The Demolition Depot is not well heated, and Blum wore a jacket, gloves, and a trapper hat as he proceeded up the stairs and passed a variety of other artifacts: Oscar Hammerstein's office chandelier, a bronze panel from a domed ceiling at the Toy Building, backdrops from a defunct Chinese theatre under the Manhattan Bridge.
They discover that Kerner ransacked her office in search of Atlantean artifacts, but Sophia says that she keeps her most valuable item, her necklace, with her.
The Little Prairie Heritage Museum, located in one of the town's oldest buildings (a converted post office dating to 1949) displays artifacts and re-creations of the town's frontier times, and nostalgia pieces from the construction of infrastructure through the Rocky Mountains.
