From Maine-Sometimes a place becomes real when you can touch it.
Reaching on Thursday for a crystal chunk on a table in the parish hall at Christ Episcopal Church, Robert Egloff said, “This is from Cambodia.”
The rock is part of a collection of items that Egloff has assembled over years of collecting.
This week, it’s on display at the church, which has opened its doors for events in conjunction with The Wall That Heals, the display of the traveling replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial just across Dresden Avenue in the Gardiner Common.
On tables that encircle the parish hall, and even overhead, items from Egloff’s collection shine a light on the era of the Vietnam War, a tempestuous and turbulent time in American history.
There are uniforms, caps,
hats, insignias, weapons, Life magazines, helmets, record albums of pop
and rock music popular in the 1960s and 1970s, transistor radios, a tape
recorder and political memorabilia from the period, as well as a
parachute complete in its pack and one suspended from the ceiling.
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