Colin McEnroe Show: The 'Mummy Whisperer'
Ron Beckett is a expert on all things mummy.
It probably violates a lot of zoning laws in West Hartford, but I can totally understand -- especially as I read more about the work of today's guest Ron Beckett -- why people would want to mummify their ancestors and have them close at hand. It seems more natural than almost anything we do with our dead here in the West.
Beckett, a professor at Quinnipiac, has traveled the world, often for the purpose of helping indigenous peoples recover and remember their own mummification traditions.
In some cases, lacking a written tradition, these people really cannot -- to use Santayana's famous phrase, remember the past. And they are condemned not to repeat it but -- quite the opposite -- to lose the thread of it.
Today, we take the Hollywood out of mummies, even if we can't take the mummies out of Hollywood. Later on the show, Connecticut ghosthunter Lorraine Warren.
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It takes a lot to make me turn off CPR, and CT's favorite ghost-hunting charlatan takes the cake -- I can't even recall what made me last turn off Faith M. (and I'm pretty sure I didn't write an e-mail about whatever it was).
Since I'm writing, thanks for joining the roster; keep up the good work (esp. by not mentioning "roast beef binder", tho von Bulow may still be interesting).
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