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Off the Path

"Appreciate the Mundane" at a museum for umbrella covers

By Davis Dunavin
Published July 20, 2023 at 12:02 PM EDT
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Umbrella Cover Museum founder Nancy Hoffman gives a tour to a visiting class of students.
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Umbrella Cover Museum founder Nancy Hoffman gives a tour to a visiting class of students.

A small museum on an island in Maine boasts the world’s largest collection of a specific kind of artifact: umbrella covers. Not umbrellas — just the covers.

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Davis Dunavin
Davis Dunavin loves telling stories, whether on the radio or around the campfire. He started in Missouri and ended up in Connecticut, which, he'd like to point out, is the same geographic trajectory taken by Mark Twain.
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