SouthernN'Proud
Southern Discomfort
from tonguetied.us
A museum in Hartford, Conn. was forced to cancel a show featuring the gun collection of Samuel Colt because the show didn't offer "a broader context in which to talk about contemporary gun violence," according to the Hartford Courant.
The show of Colt's gun collection, which had been three years in the planning, was to be exhibited at Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum museum beginning in May next year. The collection was bequeathed to the museum in 1905.
"Samuel Colt: Arms, Art and Invention" featured 110 firearms from the industrialist's collection. Opposition to the exhibit came especially from givers of "cultural and heritage grants" who expressed dismay about such a show in a city trying to remake its mean-streets image.
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Yeah. When I think of brutal, dangerous places to live, Hartford Connecticut spring instantly to mind.
What a bunch of bunk.
A museum in Hartford, Conn. was forced to cancel a show featuring the gun collection of Samuel Colt because the show didn't offer "a broader context in which to talk about contemporary gun violence," according to the Hartford Courant.
The show of Colt's gun collection, which had been three years in the planning, was to be exhibited at Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum museum beginning in May next year. The collection was bequeathed to the museum in 1905.
"Samuel Colt: Arms, Art and Invention" featured 110 firearms from the industrialist's collection. Opposition to the exhibit came especially from givers of "cultural and heritage grants" who expressed dismay about such a show in a city trying to remake its mean-streets image.
**end**
Yeah. When I think of brutal, dangerous places to live, Hartford Connecticut spring instantly to mind.
What a bunch of bunk.
