<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; = charset=Windows-1252"> <TITLE>Message</TITLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1226" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><SPAN class=353152602-08112003><FONT face=Arial = size=4>Reminds me of the man who found a very old painting AND a very old violin at a garage = sale. Paid $10 for both. Took them to an appraiser who informed him that he had, in = his hands, a genuine Rembrandt AND a genuined = Stradivarius!</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=353152602-08112003><FONT face=Arial size=4></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=353152602-08112003><FONT face=Arial size=4>So = naturally he asks "What are they worth?"</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=353152602-08112003><FONT face=Arial size=4></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=353152602-08112003><FONT face=Arial = size=4>"Well," said the appraiser, "Nothing really. You see Rembrandt made lousy violins and Stradivarius couldn't paint worth spit."</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=353152602-08112003><FONT face=Arial>Hopefully the = Broadwood is worth something to someone. One place you see them is in restored period = houses at historic sites. I know, for example, that there is one in the parlor = of one of the tour houses (Heber C. Kimball home, I think) in Nauvoo, = Illinois. Definitely behind the velvet rope and has a nice little "Please Don't = Touch" sign on it.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=353152602-08112003><FONT = face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Alan R. = Barnard</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>Salem, M<SPAN class=353152602-08112003>O</SPAN><SPAN = class=353152602-08112003><FONT size=3> </FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> <BR> <P><FONT SIZE=2>---<BR> Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.<BR> Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).<BR> Version: 6.0.525 / Virus Database: 322 - Release Date: 10/9/2003<BR> </FONT> </P>