Changing the sheets in the museum

If you have visited the Marine Museum in Canal Park, you have certainly walked by the three cabin berths on the second floor each with an original member of the crew still there, although the years have not been kind to the three of them; they are very white and seem barely alive. I have always assumed the staff at the museum allowed them to go to sleep at night; standing all day is not an easy job, but I have never been in the museum late enough to find out. Finally, our crack investigative unit discovered our first big clue. One of our photographers snuck up on Park Ranger Beth Duncan while she was changing the sheets in the middle cabin. And piles of sheets were noticed in other parts of the museum. Most of us know you don’t change the sheets in the bed unless someone is going to sleep in the bed. We will still try to get pictures of our very white and very quiet museum models, but we are all certainly glad that the museum is looking out for them; I understand they do not pay them a lot of money. The picture here shows Beth cleaning up the second cabin, much of which came from the wood sailing vessel Lucerne, a vessel than sank in the late 19^th century. You see our white friend in the back, looking at himself in the mirror. He had moved out of the way so Beth could change his sheets. It is rumored that they only change his sheets once a year.