Small Museums Rule !!

If you have never been to a small museum somewhere in rural America you have no idea what you are missing. I promised 3 museums in this blog but there is just too much important info to cram into one entry so . . . .here is the first of three entries. (Oh, by the way this post is dedicated to our good friend and museum curator extradinaire Rob Saarnio)

Moqui Cave . . . I already mentioned this earlier and with a quick cut and paste. . . .

A classic tourist attraction just outside Kanab, Utah: Moqui Cave. This place is hard to describe but I can tell you that it is classic western kitsch, owned for generations by a Utah Mormon family that has collected rocks and minerals, dinasour footprints, arrowheads and an amazing assortment of Indian pottery and artifacts that no private owners should ever be able to claim. The clovis point collection takes the cake. . . . 

Our host Lex, the 6'4'' Mormon whose grand dad was the 46th child of his great grand dad and he had the pictures to prove it!

Thats right 2 rooms of stuff! and we are in an actual cave! 
For what it is worth Moqui is  the original word for Hopi.

If these points are real and if they are from Clovis and if you know much about archeology then you will be asking the same question I'm asking. . . .what the hell are they doing in "Moqui Cave" ?


But who really cares when you've also got wood carvings of John Wayne, autographed photos of the Lone Ranger 

So why does it say Clayton Moore under Tonto's picture and Jay Silverheels under the Ranger? whoops! Got it backward but hey we still have two genuine autographs.

and then of course what small museum is complete without. . . 
Elvis. . . .the King. . . . thats what I am talking about!