In reply to your last - While I would venture to say "yes" others might say "no" if you could ever light a fire in their boilers and get them to post up here. Would I like to be wrong on this account? Definitely! But the on-going silence has been deafening (even from your location way up North) hasn't it?

What's going on? Do you suppose that someone should be be hired to take dictation? Has the effort to fund the Steam Tug BALTIMORE turned into some sort of Top Secret operation? Perhaps it has - and that isn't encouraging, isn't it?

Two more Baltimore museums are slated for closing - including the fledgling Fell's Point Maritime Museum. How long have the preservation wagons been meaning to circle I really don't know. But somehow I personally believe that the smoke may actually be of a different nature then the recent museum community's wagon circling.

Walt