[Constitution Day]

Just out of curiosity, who has been picking up the storage tab on this thing all this time? Did they know what they were storing all this time?

I was just down near Roanoke Island on vacation.
Although they're unclear, my guess is that the lens was in some National Park Service building at Fort Raleigh (the "Lost Colony") site.

So, the short answer is that WE have been picking up the storage tab.

Oh well... at least they found it.

[Captain Beyond]

I like to find out the histories behind things and how they survived. You kinda figure something like that just gets taken, broken, lost, or sold for auction. It is a miracle that it did not end up in T.G.I.Friday's, Captain D's, or a Red Lobster restaurant as atmospheric ambiance. Now looking at Hooter's through the lens would be interesting, but I digress.

It makes one wonder how much other stuff is stored in warehouses across America that is just sitting there waiting to be found. Does the government catalog all this stuff in national data base? And if they do I wonder how hard it would be to access the lists?