Andy:

I agree that usually it is bad manners to look a &amp;quot;gift horse&amp;quot; in the mouth, unless of course he does not have all of his teeth. 

By that I mean,  the club can&#039;t just accept grants, donated funds, land, buildings, etc. for the museum project  and grant others &amp;quot;control&amp;quot; without keeping our eye on the total effort involved to open a museum.  

So if the &amp;quot;gift horse&amp;quot; is going to provide the wherewithal so we can finish the race fine, but if the donation of land, a building or funding will only get us &amp;quot;out of the starting gate&amp;quot; and we have to figure out how to run the rest of the race, i.e. complete the museum, we don&#039;t want the gift horse(s) thinking  they are also the sitting in the saddle playing the role of the jockey.

I also agree with Kline about what a yes vote meant on the ballot in the NOV/DEC 2002 magazine.  To pursue looking into a museum at the site of the  old Oliver factory buildings is what I think my &amp;quot;yes&amp;quot; vote aprroved.  Now that is not to say that a museum at the Copshaholm site or someplace else in South Bend would not be just as good.  I also know that these other possibilities were not known at the time the ballots were printed.  But I just don&#039;t think that I or other members voted on that, and the fact that the majority voted yes on those ballots does not give a green light for pusuing a museum just anyplace that may show up.  Therefore, I would think that the officers and directors of the club would try to get some input from the general membership before they go too far down the pike looking at alternative sites.

Have a great West Virginia day!   <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) -->