6-13-09: The Museum is waiting for cost estimates to reattach the bronto's head. Initial repair work may be limited to the reattachment, with other needed repairs to be done as funds become available.
A free concert already planned for June 21 by the Durham Community Concert Band (http://www.durhamband.org/) at the American Tobacco Campus (http://www.americantobaccocampus.com/index.html) is mentioned as a fund-raising opportunity.
The Museum is working on a resolution with the youths responsible for the vandalism, and their parents. The youths will be held accountable, but due to liability issues, only skilled and insured workers will be allowed to perform the actual repair work.
Dusty says his father did not intend for the bronto to be either male or female, and did not have a pet name for it. [This has been a side topic of interest on the neighborhood email list in regards to the t-shirt design. Suggestions have included Sinclair (ref. the Sinclair Oil Co., http://www.sinclairoil.com/history/historys_p1.htm, which has used the brontosaurus "Dino" as its logo since 1930), Charlotte Bronty (ref. author Charlotte Bronte), and Bronty-Apaty.]
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