It is not hyperbole to say that he is a national treasure when it comes to the art of song.
Each skin, representing an immense investment of labor in the field, was treated like a treasure when it arrived at the museum.
Balagovindan also spoke with me, and he recalled his first glimpse of the treasure: "When they removed the granite stone, it was almost perfectly dark, except for a small amount of light coming in through the doorway behind us.
Or are we after just the pallid pleasure of being reacquainted with trash we thought treasure when we first encountered it and which we have since almost entirely forgotten?
They are also a source of treasure when tucked into a pork, chicken or beef stew, working with the vegetables and aromatics to give a mysterious and elusive backnote.
Watching stilt-walkers, jugglers and fire- eaters before the lighting of the easternmost beacon on the wall at 10.12pm, Trish and Pat O'Connor recalled scavenging the site for "treasure" when they were young.
The man, who is in prison for a string of felonies, says he learned of the treasure when he shared a Greek prison cell with Dr. Merten in 1958.
Before he discovered Mormonism, Joseph Smith was a "money digger" who trusted that a stone in a hat, properly viewed, could lead him to buried treasure; when the stone pointed the way to a hill in New York that contained the Book of Mormon, he hit the mother lode.
