This morning, I had to go pick up a card with some photos on it that my friend Richard took of the National Equality March last week. He is in the Renaissance Center at 10th and State, and I ended up taking 6th Street home.
At 6th and Chestnut, I saw my friend Erin’s car, and realized that the Young Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender Women (YLBT Women) were going to tour the Watson Curtze Mansion Museum right then. I figured that it was way too much of a coincidence to pass up, so I wandered in (even though I am neither young now a lesbian. 
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It was a small/intimate turnout, but it was great fun. I recalled that I used to go to art classes at the museum when I was a kid. I also used to live down the street at 6th and Myrtle. There was a statue (Greek or Romanm, not sure which) in the entrance hall of a woman with a winged cupid covering her eyes. In my rather macabre frame of mind, all I could think was of her screaming that it was gouging her eyes out – “Get it off! Get it off!!! The pain!!!”
We went through the entire museum. It was interesting what I recalled from 35-40 years ago and what might have been new/not remembered.
After the museum, we had a very nice lunch at Molly Brannigan’s. All in all, a very pleasant afternoon!
Tom says (misquoting Joe McCarthy): “Repeat after me: ‘I am not now, nor have I ever been, a lesbian’”
Su says: “My fondest memory of the museum was visiting with Robert Arbuckle when he acted the part of the wild and weird tour guide…do you remember this?”
I was SO quoting Robert when we were there this past Saturday. “Here we see examples of the over 4000 pounds of bric a brac removed from the room of Miss Ameldita Curtze and her budgerigar collection. There are also samples of the sexual explicit needlework for sale in the the adults only section of the museum’s gift shop. Of course, the truly interesting thing about the Watson-Curtze Mansion is that was completely built from the top down.”
Good times!
YES – that is SO the quote I was remembering!!!