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You know, This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories, and we tell stories about everything here on this show,

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And now a story about a lady who curates a very specific kind of museum.

Nancy Three Hoffman, yes, her middle name is the numeral three, not the word three, the numeral.

She lives in Maine and is the founder and curator of the world's only umbrella cover museum.

Here is Nancy's story on how she came to open such a unique place.

Hi, I'm Nancy Three Hoffman. I am the founder, director, and curator of the world's only

umbrella cover museum. Now we're just talking about the sleeves,

the sheaths that come on umbrellas when you buy a new umbrella because they fascinate me.

So what happens to most umbrella covers when they're first purchased? That's the big question.

The answer I have found over many years of doing the umbrella cover museum is that most people don't

know what to do with them. So they put them in the closet, drop them in the car, stick them in a

pocket, lose them. And it's that

particular phenomenon that they are underappreciated and sort of enigmatic that fascinated me.

So one day I was cleaning out my house. I found a few umbrella covers, I looked at them and said,

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