For the 34 homeowners whose small and simple houses dot the land, Hen Island is their refuge, for some a childhood relic passed down through family.
Years later, when they changed their names and moved to Manhattan, their nude paintings and other erotica would be explained as relics handed down by dear old granddad.
Preserved in rows in a dark wood display cabinet in her current London show, they look like relics worn down by devotional fingers.
Mr. Waters had brought a red baseball cap that Mr. Helm impulsively gave him in 1990, and it hung on a microphone stand — a relic and down-home talisman — as the entire lineup gathered to sing "The Weight," belting its tales of comic woe like a family anthem.
A few cultural relics filter down, like the band Rush (which appears on the show), the nationally treasured restaurant chain Tim Hortons, and J-Roc's second-hand hip-hop, but that's about it.
Democrats and Republicans in DC have been looking at town's like East Liverpool as the past, a dead relic to look down on with pity.
Some items, the civil affairs officers said, wind up as souvenirs -- one American Humvee has been seen sporting an odd relic: an upside-down Iraqi license plate.
In Tallahassee or in France, surrounded by strip malls or art relics, pants are down and folks are fucking themselves.
In other words, CA wants a judge to shut down New Relic.
Further down are relics of the Beatnik era, then a stratum of the Angry Young Men, another of boozy literati in Fitzrovia.
