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| A couple of boneheads The Author, Lee Post (Boneman) and friend, Orca |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| As a kid I was a junkie, a natural history junkie. I was passionate about the natural world and couldn't get enough of it. I collected everything related to that world I could get my hands on--bugs, birds, feathers, rocks, shells, butterflies, and especially bones. These were labeled and displayed on the walls of my room until it looked like the aftermath of a bomb going off in a natural history museum storage room. I spent several formative years on the East Coast where an ultimate treat was finding a new specimen or visiting a natural history museum. Of special interest was any exhibits having to do with bones, whether a full dinosaur skeleton or a single human bone. Eventually my family moved back to Alaska where I finished school and became a bicycle mechanic and eventually moved to the small town of Homer, Alaska where I became a bookseller. Homer had a great small natural history museum (The Pratt Museum) run by an inspiring director and a wonderful crew of staff and volunteers. There I articulated a 17-foot Beaked Whale the staff had collected and cleaned. This led to fifteen years of building up the osteology collection at the museum by salvaging, preparing, and often articulating animal skeletons. In the mid 90's came a three year high school/museum collaborative project in which I worked with high school students on first articulating a 41-foot Sperm Whale skeleton, then half a dozen other skeletons. Since that project, the focus has been working mostly with schools and students and creating written manuals that can help others who might want to do similar projects. One teacher suggested that I was like the Pied Piper of bones, leaving a trail of kids who all wanted to do another skeleton project. |
| Below are photos of my room when I was a kid. Having all that great stuff was a sure-fired way to keep little sisters out of there. |
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