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Brian Boom, vice president for science at the New York Botanical Garden, resisted his mother's entreaties on every trip back to Memphis to take his treasured Boy Scout badges and memorabilia. These trophies meant a lot to Boom. Only after he married in his 40s and became "more of a nesting person" did he feel that these mementos belonged in his own home...
Joanna White, a music professor in Mount Pleasant, Mich., left her bulky "savings" box of childhood memorabilia in her parents' garage in Kensington, Calif., until shortly before her 40th birthday this year. The things in that carton represented her "young self," she explains, who was creative and a writer. On her last visit, though, she did bring the box's contents back to Michigan because she wanted to show her daughter Kailey, 7, who's talking about being a writer, the stories she had written at age seven. "When Kailey read them," White relates, "she decided that at that...
Each of the four guest rooms is decorated in an Afro-centric theme. The sunny Ashante Suite features African artifacts and textiles and hauntingly beautiful sculptures. Visitors tell Greenwood that staying in the Black Memorabilia Suite--with its old quilts, rag dolls and Louis Armstrong wax record from the 1940s--is "like going to Grandma's house down South." The romantic Jumping-the-Broom Suite, with double Jacuzzi, is popular with honeymooners, whom Greenwood greets with champagne, strawberries and cream...
...Traditional Smithsonian-esque political memorabilia abounds, including 13-inch statues of each president, each accompanied by a small glass case of presidential doo-dads (including a spoon from Coolidge's inauguration, a pair of the Reagans' wine glasses and a Clinton golf ball). The first ladies are represented as well; inaugural ball gowns line one wall. One seven-year-old girl, pulling her mother by the hand, passed judgment on each dress: "I'd wear that one, not that one, that one, that one...." Personally, I gave Pat Nixon's gown the highest marks: A clean, simple cream-colored satin...
...Memorabilia Marketplace and GOPShoppe compete for dollars with dueling stuffed elephants, gold jewelry, necklaces made of red, white and blue crazily flashing lights and Reagan mementos ($2,700 golf ball, anyone?). The less traditional Marketplace wins my vote by providing an onsite chiropractor...