The top postcard reports-
This mummy of an Adena Indian miner was discovered in Mammoth Cave in 1935. Radioactive Carbon 14 tests indicate that he lived 500 B. C. entering Mammoth Cave 2,375 years ago in search of gypsum.
The bottom one reads-
From this lofty stage of limestone, Edwin Booth recited from Hamlet to a group of cave visitors in 1872.
2 comments:
I remember seeing this mummy and Mammoth Cave when I was a child. I still have photos somewhere of our tour group shot about 1964. Nobody in the family remembered the mummy but he apparently made quite an impression on me and I kept insisting it really happened. Took sixty years to redeem myself. lol. I recall the tour guide saying it was a young Native American boy that must have gotten lost and fallen. I also shook hands with Colonel Sanders himself and remember my mother pointing out a rodeo queen which I'm pretty sure she said was Loretta Lynn before we left Kentucky by 65. I'll hang onto your coffee suggestions in case I get back to Louisville. Thank you from Va.
Wow! Thanks for sharing that story! It is fascinating that they had the remains on display like that.... and they don't know. Pretty cool that you got to meat the Colonel too!
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