2009.04.08: April 8, 2009: Headlines: COS - Poland: Art: HeraldNet: Tracy Tallman lived for two years in Poland while serving with the Peace Corps. She bought hundreds of hand-painted wooden Russian and Polish Easter eggs in a Russian market in Warsaw
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2009.04.08: April 8, 2009: Headlines: COS - Poland: Art: HeraldNet: Tracy Tallman lived for two years in Poland while serving with the Peace Corps. She bought hundreds of hand-painted wooden Russian and Polish Easter eggs in a Russian market in Warsaw
Tracy Tallman lived for two years in Poland while serving with the Peace Corps. She bought hundreds of hand-painted wooden Russian and Polish Easter eggs in a Russian market in Warsaw
She got on the airplane with a duffel bag stuffed with the small works of art. "Something went awry in the Colorado airport," Tallman said. "When I got the bag, there were maybe 30 of 500 eggs remaining." Easter always reminds her of the loss, and she said envisions those giant interlocking luggage belts in the bowels of the airport with 470 hand-painted eggs rolling around untended. "I'm sure they've been cleaned up by now, but the image brings me a laugh," Tallman said. "And it is easy to pause and wonder what havoc they may have wreaked on that machinery, eggs rolling out conveyor belts and on to the tarmac, or wherever those belts lead."
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Tracy Tallman of Edmonds lived for two years in Poland while serving with the Peace Corps. She bought hundreds of hand-painted wooden Russian and Polish Easter eggs in a Russian market in Warsaw, aiming to sell them at a Polish Home Society sale in Seattle.
She got on the airplane with a duffel bag stuffed with the small works of art.
"Something went awry in the Colorado airport," Tallman said. "When I got the bag, there were maybe 30 of 500 eggs remaining."
Easter always reminds her of the loss, and she said envisions those giant interlocking luggage belts in the bowels of the airport with 470 hand-painted eggs rolling around untended.
"I'm sure they've been cleaned up by now, but the image brings me a laugh," Tallman said. "And it is easy to pause and wonder what havoc they may have wreaked on that machinery, eggs rolling out conveyor belts and on to the tarmac, or wherever those belts lead."
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