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AT MUSEUM, IT'S NOT A PRETTY PICTURE

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20040928
Author:ALEX BEAM

Asmall museum on Cape Cod is wrestling with a dilemma that any institution would love not to have.

In August, Bethany Rutledge, director of collections and exhibits at Sandwich's Thornton W. Burgess Museum, was sorting through 18,000 slides left to the museum 21 years ago by the late Colonel Eugene S. Clark, a well-known local photographer and naturalist. She found two trays of slides that she described in an Internet posting as "probably 70-80 slides - that jump out at me as pedophilia. Photo after photo of little girls posed in . . . well, compromising positions."

"I was horrified at what we ...

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