Who's on first?

Today I came across a couple of interesting archaeology stories, one a Spanish fort and settlement in the 16th century in North Carolina, in Appalachia. (1) Another was about the early 1604 settlement of St. Croix Island in the St. Croix River between the United States and Canada, between Calais, Maine and St. Stephen, New Brunswick. (2) The second reminded me of a story from a number of years ago (I used to travel to Grand Manan Island, NB, where my grandfather was from) when during the War of 1812, although we were supposed to be enemies (though Maine wasn't a state in the Union until 1820) the people of St. Stephen, NB lent the Calais, ME residents some powder (which they were in very short supply of, though they had been promised by the government an abundant supply to fight with) to celebrate the Fourth of July. I was visiting my cousin Willard Parker and family on the Fourth of July one year. He was the lighthouse keeper at "The Whistle" which had since been automated, and one could see, along with some of the other spectators, the fireworks exploding over Lubec, Maine that summer, about 10 miles away. Nearby is "Indian Beach" where I spread dulse in a sunny respite from a fogbound summer. There the native Passamaquoddy used to come from Maine to trade their baskets (and play baseball?) I'm sure the baskets were welcome, for hauling fish scales out of a boat hold or carrying garden produce back to the house. There was some archaeology there in the 1990's too I read on line. Once upon a time a ferry used to come there from Maine from across the Grand Manan Channel, which is in most of the Red Lobster bathrooms, the nautical chart serves as wallpaper. These days the ferries come from Blacks Harbour, NB, a little over a 2 hour cruise, but closer to the city of St. John, N.B., (50 miles from the ferry) where an undersea power cable comes from a nuclear power plant and where many Long Island, NY Loyalists settled, St. John, after leaving Long Island (according to Newfield, I think the author was, over 3,000, many buried there) for Canada in the American Revolution. (3) (1) Evidence of 16th-Century Spanish Fort in Appalachia http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/11/1122_041122_spanish_fort.html (2) Study: Scurvy Hit Early N. American French Colony http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=6944526&src=rss/scienceNews November 29, 2004 http://www.newsscan.com/newsscan/newscup.html (3) I enjoyed the "Honorary Subscriber: J.R.R. Tolkein" in NewsScan Daily but thought perhaps if you had included his scholarly work in which he translated "Sir Gawain and the Blue Knight" might have given further insight into his academic and perhaps spiritual side. (See December 16, 2004 for correction)

Epson HX-20, first notebook computer? (announced 1981)

One unique use of the HX-20, was by the Zeiss company, which wrote Basic code for it to translate serial port code from an infrared survey instrument, an Elta 38 (?), which, through its telescope, one took sitings of a reflecting prism, turned into x,y,z triplets for topographical information (for the planet Kpax, in the HX-20). I grew attached to one, it's little built in printer predating the cash registers that arrived and the microcasette recorder to store programs, as we watched the "ticker tape" machines in the financial district hit the curbs, replaced by the "green snake" of LEDs and LCD displays. Used on a number of sites (early New Amsterdam remains in NYC on Whitehall St., and others) for one-time Britannica Yearbook "Western Hemisphere" archaeology author Joel Grossman, Ph.D., it went with him and Mike Davenport to map an indigenous mound for archaeologist Anna Roosevelt (former President Theodore Roosevelt's grand-daughter) on the largest freshwater island in the world, in Brazil on the Amazon. It cacked from humidity, I think, on a Hudson River terrace while I was using it at the site of the "last village of the Wesqueskecks" in Dobbs Ferry, NY. I had to rewrite some of the software once, as 0,0 is positive from Columbus Circle in NYC in all directions, in the old system (under Christopher Columbus' statue?) to try to synch up old Bronx maps with an old Wave Hill map for a tree survey (Samuel Clemens once lived there and had a treehouse for visiting, Arturo Toscanini also lived there, its last "private" use, the British Embassy compound in 1961 or so, and now a cultural and horticulture center, and actually two mansions and grounds) then also in NYC's nearby Riverdale Park. Certain "escaped" plants (especially "porcelainberry") are taking over the woods there and it was once thought to remove them before they choked all the pathways along the Hudson River (pre GPS).

Re: I'm peach Walker B.

MSN's Slate Chatterbox Subject:RE: I'm peach Walker B. From:GeorgeJMyersJr-2 Date:Nov 27 2004 6:56AM Well in the movie "Sitting Bull" starring Iron Eyes Cody, whom I met at a Choctaw pow-wow in Philadelphia, Mississippi back in 1979, (a place Ronald Reagan made a big deal over sitting in a rocking chair there as part of his campaign for Commander-in-Chief (CIC) with the Republicans [kicked off in Upstate New York] who were phonebook registering [maybe harassing is a better word] many Mississippi residents, who'd answer the phone, getting Trent Lott into office by-the-way and an aircraft carrier built there the Pentagon didn't want, along with many other things crammed down their craw by politicians) it is related that the "Great White Chief" from Washington would meet the "Chief of Chiefs" Sitting Bull, which never happened, regrettably. My little word play is what did we do again, that? Maybe if we had not went agaga over gogo with Monica (whose family lives next door to Bob and Libby Dole in the Watergate Complex in D.C. and in my mind history may "un-name" Mata Hari, and replace her name with Lewinsky) and Bill Clinton then President, who was paid 1/2 as much a year as George Walker Bush receives (whom would-be impeachers call Walker B. not the inane "dubya" in baby dude chick talk) had not been permitted by law to be harassed (and his wife) by the Arkansas Bar, we would have a better day today and not be involved in a replay of Schwartzkopf's father's expeditionary force to perhaps put a "shah" in power, this time Iraq. He later was in charge of the Lindbergh baby kidnapping Federal investigation, a case some still think should be reopened, (so too Flight 800).

"Atoms For Peace" stamp designed by Bellport, NY artist

From the National Register of Historic Places: "Savannah, Newport News City, Virginia (Nuclear-powered merchant marine vessel associated with the Federal government's "Atoms for Peace program, late 1950s) [Listed in NR 11/14/82; Designated NHL 7/17/91] (Atoms for Peace was a non-military nuclear program sponsored by the U.S. government with indirect connections to Cold War military/political programs.)" Pupin Physics Laboratories, Columbia University, New York County, New York (First split of uranium atom, 1/25/39) [Listed in NR 10/15/66; Designated NHL 12/21/65] http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/publications/bulletins/ 01workshop/coldwar.htm NRHP Workshop @ NCSHPO Annual Meeting -- NRHP Cold War Resources It was once rumoured that John Lennon and Yoko Ono were going to move to Bellport, out on Long Island, NY, once a produce port for NYC, about the time the Rolling Stones made the album "Mystery Motel" about one it's said in Montauk, NY ("Montauk is the End" bumper sticker) where George Washington chatted up the locals (according to geologists) for the placement of the Montauk Point Lighthouse. Paul McCartney lived over in Connecticut (where his manager's town had the first Army high school JROTC, mine, Newfield, the Marines' and the "Brooklyn Bridge" so much music, Long Island ought to have a "rock museum" (The Young Rascals, Blue Oyster Cult, Billy Joel, John Tesh, Jonathan Edwards, The Good Rats, Foghat, Savoy Brown, the last band in the WTC, etc.) and would fly over for pizza sometimes. John traveled back and forth in a limo with Yoko and her mother (Japanese only) to NYC, according to Newsday from their limo driver. George Washington had been there back after the French and Indian War on his way to Boston, MA, as many did by way of the "other end" of Long Island. Orient Point is the site of the modern ferry to New Britain and New London, Connecticut, Plum Island, a Federal animal disease research and quarantine facility, and Fishers Island, by way of Connecticut, still part of Suffolk County. Greenport in Southold Town, was once a whaling town and railroad terminus, where George Washington stayed for three days before the American Revolution. "The original purpose of the LIRR was to create a rail/ferry/rail connection from New York to Boston. The route was to be via rail to LI's North Fork then by boat to Stonington, Connecticut where it would continue by rail through Providence and Boston. At that time, engineers had considered it impossible to build a totally overland route through the hills of southern Connecticut. On April 18, 1836 the B&J (Brooklyn and Jamaica) was completed and immediately was leased by the LIRR, which started laying its own rails east from Jamaica." http://www.lirrhistory.com/lirrhist.html He may have known Captain Hulbert who served with the Green Mountain Boys in Vermont and even submitted a design for the US flag, stripes and 13 stars in the shape of a "Star of David" or "Solomon's Seal" of which there is a poor "fake" in the Suffolk County History Museum, in Riverhead, the county "seat". The "Hulbert Flag" there was woven in the 19th century according to the Division of Textiles at the Smithsonian. There was also a Green Mountain flag with the stars arranged in a "random" (?) pattern on a blue field in the corner. Captain Hulbert also distinguished himself (his father was a cobbler in Bridgehampton, NY near the corner of the Montauk Highway and the old Sag Harbor Turnpike, parts along the turnpike are held by "The Nature Conservancy") by defending Montauk from the British Navy, who came to raid the sheep and cattle flocks kept there. He and what a hundred men (?) marched up one side of a hill, in view of the British Navy offshore, reversed their coats, out of view, and marched around the front of the hill. The British Navy thought there were too many "coats" guarding the place and made no effort to put ashore to take "fresh" provisions. The first steamship to cross the Atlantic, the "Savannah" named after the port it left in Georgia, that day, for Liverpool, England, ("Whereas on May 22, 1819, the steamship The Savannah set sail from Savannah, Georgia, on the first successful transoceanic voyage under steam propulsion, thus making a material contribution to the advancement of ocean transportation.") was declared "National Maritime Day" by former four times President FDR. It had later been stripped and sold to a British firm. It sank off Fire Island near Bellport, NY in a storm. Somewhat coincidentally, a sailing ship, the "Paragon" built on Shelter Island, in the Lord Shipyard, which I put a few shovel tests into awhile ago, in 1803, outran the blockade of Liverpool, England by "Emporer" Napoleon (crowned Dec. 2, 1804). A former channel through Fire Island also filled, where upwards of 100 ships carrying Long Island produce to NYC once entered the Atlantic Ocean from Bellport, when one and then another ship sank in the channel before the Long Island Railroad carried many to its shores for summer retreats. Considering that the Great South Bay is noticeably filling in (read in the "New Jersey Geologist") and the clams are going perhaps it might make sense to open it up? I wonder after the tragedy of Flight 800, deemed an accident by the NTSB, whereas all the underwater surfaces of the area off of Fire Island's Moriches Inlet were scanned and investigated, (I grew up near Moriches Road in Lake Grove, (Moriches was later renamed Eastport) a huge shopping mall straddles two towns where the road divided them, "The Smithaven Mall," between Smithtown and Brookhaven, a grape arbor I think once ran along its boundary in my mind's eye) if that information will ever be looked at for underwater archaeology? A National historical treasure might be out there, the remains of the "The Savannah" which has been searched for by others.

MSN Slate's Jurisprudence on mandatory sentences

Subject: Bench Pressed From: GeorgeJMyersJr-2 Date: Nov 24 2004 7:15AM This reminds me of Tony. Tony went to Attica Prison in New York State (ever hear "Attica State" by John Lennon and Yoko Ono? Was a 45 rpm? Had a Yoko solo on one side?) for five years for two marijuana cigarettes because his father was a defense trial lawyer with a last name that ended in a vowel. He had just bought a camera from "a friend" in the street" and the cops raided his apartment. That was before the Rockefeller laws in NY State, which are now the toughest in the USA, so tough and preset, judges bridle under them as they have nothing to judge, why bother? Unfortunately it places minor (and minors) in the system, and the crack dealers in the next State (they know who they are) get away. One 16 year old jumped from his mother's side out a 10 story window to his death awaiting to see a judge on a small marijuana possession charge. As a jury foreperson I have personally been confounded by a recent addition to the laws. Within 1000' feet of a school special laws are applied in City of New York, whether there's a 20 foot high chain link fence between the deal and the school. Meanwhile the law does not apply if the deal goes on in the building next door to the school! Different laws apply to a domicile vs. a street I suppose. I sat through hundreds of cases in the Borough of the Bronx in one session of four weeks for $40 a day. I had to sign as a citizen to any charges the Grand Jury found in a simple majority worthy of District Attorney prosecution (mostly $5 and $10 deals, which in the Constitution of the US, you could not have a jury trial for as it states only "$20" cases make the bar for jury trials of your peers) even though I disagreed with almost every case (they were all being secretly videotaped undercover by their sergeants (over 3000 transactions) and when I found this out in an exclusive to the "NY Post" and requested the tapes while a regular jury person at another session, ignored by the recent A.D.A. (female) from Erie County, which includes the second largest city in NY, Buffalo, NY) still publicly part of the record. Change it, first revoke the "Rockefeller" laws, he would.

The Tao of archaeology?

"The passive tense is appropriate: artifacts were found. Chinese archeologists distinguish between two types of excavation: zhudong and beidong, "active" and "passive." An active excavation is deliberate, planned, and relatively rare. Throughout the past century, it's been far more common for important discoveries to occur purely by chance. A construction project stumbles upon an ancient city; a peasant digs clay and accidentally uncovers a forgotten tomb. It's essentially Taoist: the effectiveness of non-action. You're most likely to find treasures when you're not searching for them."

http://newyorker.com/talk/content/?041129ta_talk_hessler

Flash Activist letter!

Dear Senator X, President Bush has nominated National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice to replace Colin Powell as Secretary of State. Her confirmation hearing presents a golden opportunity for senators to ask her tough questions while she's under oath. Here is a short list of possible questions for Condoleezza Rice's confirmation hearing. There are -- no doubt -- many more. * You once said: "I don't think anybody could have predicted that they would try to use... a hijacked airplane as a missile." How could you assert this knowing that the President received memos warning that Osama bin Laden was capable of a major strike against the U.S. and that terrorists had explored using airplanes as missiles? (12 times mentioned according to PBS report 11/21/04 Bill Moyers et al, then when officially notified, the President spent 23 more days at his Crawford, TX ranch. What , no one's hijacked an airplane before in her world? There's a monument in the ground near here, on the Bronx River Parkway, dedicated to former Israeli P.M. Netanyahu's brother who perished at the raid on hijackers at Entebbe.) * Given that chief White House expert on terrorism Richard Clarke sent you an urgent memo days after you took office warning of the severity of the threat of terrorism, why was terrorism the topic at only two formal meetings of the national security leadership prior to the Sept. 11 attacks? And given Federal operations in the WTC were conceivably attacked prior to 9/11/01, and an emergency center was being built (some think illegally, i.e., a televised "City Club" meeting) for a NYC emergency response, how could it NOT be considered? * Since you and the President assert that it was appropriate to invade Iraq even absent weapons of mass destruction, what other countries fit the criteria for preemptive invasions? Anyone who went to East Anglia University in Great Britain to study anthrax? As the so-called Iraqi woman scientist did? It's in the ponies hay in Antarctica from the Himalayas back in the early 20th, still there according to British royals. Speaking of which, the only "unsolved" victim of anthrax killing, was a Vietnamese-American from the Bronx. Maybe the bomb tonnage of the Vietnam Conflict came home to NYC? I was on Madison Ave. when a surviving doctor and nurse protested the bombing of one of their hospitals many years ago. I urge you to approach the constitutional role of advise and consent with the utmost seriousness and require Ms. Rice to answer these and other difficult questions. I look forward to hearing how you will address this important issue. Sincerely, George J. Myers, Jr. B.A. Anthropology

Kate Mulgrew on 13th St. in Schiller's "Mary Stuart"?

From "Mary Stuart" Sir, you shall know its import. In this letter I beg a favor, a great favor of her,-- That she herself will give me audience,--she Whom I have never seen. I have been summoned Before a court of men, whom I can ne'er Acknowledge as my peers--of men to whom My heart denies its confidence. The queen Is of my family, my rank, my sex; To her alone--a sister, queen, and woman-- Can I unfold my heart. http://www.totallykate.com/latenews.html

The New Federalist Party

CA - Nov 3, 2004 (PRN): The youngest Political Party in the Land has taken credit for the defeat of former Democratic Party Senate Minority Leader, Tom Daschle and recognized that President Bush has been retained by the America people. See: http://www.pressreleasenetwork.com/prnindex.phtml?link=newsroom/news_view.phtml? news_id=1029

MSN Slate's "Specter Resurrected"

I just can't do it. I just can't swear unswerving fealty to a Bush. The Supreme Court case, the one over n American Flag, instantly, patriotically, loyally, arises in my mind. There in Washington (the State) a native American I think was fined $75 for having a flag in his sixth floor window, a group of protesters arrived out in the street, because the man had placed electrical tape on the flag in the shape of the circular "Peace" symbol, which I read is based on two other flags, an "N" and a "D" in semaphore, as it was, people used to communicate to each other before electronics, by waving flags at each other. Well, a few people, I think went to court and each of the courts upheld the fine. So on to the Supreme Court it went, in and around the 1970's (the undeclared "war" was ending) and so there case went (in Washington the city). Well, they overturned the "Washington Court of Appeals" (did I tell you that's a state in the Union?) and found that the defendant was within his Constitutional rights of free speech to have had some tape on the American flag on the sixth floor in a window, there I think, it was, in Seattle. Further posting: Subject: RE: Specter Resurrected From: GeorgeJMyersJr-2 Date: Nov 20 2004 6:08PM "N" NUCLEAR "D" DISARMAMENT (THE BUSHES DID NOT INVENT THE MOVEMENT) I don't know what he should do maybe refer to the "The Sorcerer of Bolinas Reef" Charles Reich (a former Supreme Court assistant and author of "The Greening of America") for direction and perhaps place more emphasis on a judicial committee than one man's P.O.V. A strict Constitutionalist like Bork would I think even agree, no one person in the Constitution can create law. CA - Nov 3, 2004 (PRN): The youngest Political Party in the Land has taken credit for the defeat of former Democratic Party Senate Minority Leader, Tom Daschle and recognized that President Bush has been retained by the America people. See: http://www.pressreleasenetwork.com/prnindex.phtml?link=newsroom/news_view.phtml?news_id=1029 Also, if you ever saw a list of the various crimes and misdemeanors that any one Congress (at least in the past, the 109th might be all saints) you might have second thoughts about the quality of either a) candidates or b) law enforcement. I have seen such a list in circulation which list offenses (past) but no names just titles loosely i.e., the House or the Senate.

Arkansas Bear

I'm peach Walker B. and I make twice as much as Bill C. Next to Condi Rice, I look like Billy D. I hope you like Column A and Column B Because that's who we're having for dinner. Why, when everyone knew Monica L., Lived next door in the Watergate to Bob D., Did we have to be so saintly, like LDS, Who, started out in western NY, Burned out, like other Biblical polygamists, Did we put the CIC, instead, of in front of Sitting B. Sitting Starr? Arkansas Bear

Borderless? We can be borderless...

"State of New York, Report of the Regents of the University on the Boundaries of the State of New York." Transmitted to the Legislature May 28th, 1873" from Albany: The Argus Company, Printers 1874" which resulted from a resolution of the Senate, adopted April 19, 1867, submitted by the Chancellor of the University, John V. L. Pruyn. I found it wondering about the "Dongan Patent" which I was told gives the State the property below the high tide line in and any other underwater property. Part of a "folk legend" is that legally one may walk down a beach from one place to the next by walking below the tide line. Another problem in wetlands that it could be a part of is that the whole legal system, it's said, adjusted to "neighbor" relations; i.e., the tree limb fell on my property, not the jetty 1/2 a mile away has scoured out my beachfront (a legal practice problem on rivers too, down river upriver though not adjacent and especially when whole States are involved, a reel-to-reel tape I pulled out of the garbage at Hofstra Law School (William Kunstler and Bella Abzug's alma mater) discusses the problem of "Federal inter pleader" cases when it occurs) Anyway I was interested in it, and it goes into when the Duke of York had jurisdiction and his holdings included Pemaquid now in Maine.

Contact Your New York State Senator

Please take immediate action to protect New York's threatened wetlands. Wetlands are vital resources for all New Yorkers - they maintain clean drinking water, prevent flooding, and protect habitat for ducks fish and other wildlife. Yet, the federal government has stopped regulating "isolated" wetlands, or those that are not connected by surface waters to waters of the U.S., and in most circumstances the state only regulates wetlands that are 12.4 acres and above. This means that many of New York's wetlands are entirely unprotected. Imagine, for a moment, if you were I working in "contract archaeology" as I do or have for many companies in New York State. From Fort Drum, to Montauk Point I have seen small wetlands often the only reason they are tested for legally ordered archaeological significance. As you may know, many wetlands under 12 acres are not on maps, and cannot be tested and lands, once wetlands, are discovered from their underlying soils, perhaps creating unsafe building foundations. I have also seen areas marked wetlands in our neighbor, New Jersey, turned into office parks, though cited as wetlands by the US Army Corps of Engineers! New Jersey has an office in Trenton that evaluates all the maps ever drawn in NJ to see who is living on "made land" illegally in former wetlands and goes after them for taxes due! I also worked for the Hackensack Meadowlands Development Commission. Don't get me started! I strongly support the Clean Water Protection/Flood Prevent Act, S.4480-a, sponsored by Senator Marcellino. This act would better protect New York's wetlands by reducing the size threshold for state regulation to one acre and ensuring that wetland status is determined by scientific criteria not the state's wetlands map. This bill has passed the Assembly and has broad based support in the Senate. There is no reason to continue to delay the passage of this bill. Instead, I respectfully request that you personally ask Senator Bruno to schedule this bill for a vote when the Senate returns to Albany November 18th. Sincerely, George J. Myers, Jr. BA Anthropology

Camp X

www.campxhistoricalsociety.ca Was Michael (or Mike) Myers raised here? Don't get me wrong I like Ike.

Flight 800, before the report

If you can contact WNBC News in NYC. One Saturday, they came on the air with one of the four pumps in the center tank removed (with receipt) from an aircraft "boneyard" out in the American desert. They wanted people to see it and claim in an affadavit I think, that the wiring was frayed as stated when removed. In other words, the cause of the "flash". I forget the name of the newsman who reported it on a Saturday sometime after the "accident".

Governors Island, NYC

An emotionally disturbed man in a wet suit tried to seize Governors Island by hoisting a pirate's flag. The incident caused a massive response by the U-S Coast Guard and New York City police. Nash said he was a presidential candidate in 2000, running for the Blue Tulip Party. CBS2 NEWS 11/5/2004 I worked for four days over there in archaeology when they were still arguing over then President William Clinton's offer (funny where's Jefferson I used to think you have Fort William(s) and Castle Clinton, where's Jefferson, William Jefferson Clinton?) if the right uses for it could be established, we could have it for $1, instead of what Congress' scheme to do with it, reduce the National debt by $500 million for it. Mayor Giuliani reported putting a casino there. Geoarchaeology Research Associates of the Bronx, for the Public Archaeology Lab of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, did some testing there for the deeper geology around Fort Jay. One of the tests was in the wall of the dry moat another near the covered subterranean walk that once connected Fort Jay with Fort Williams. While we were there the "last" Coastguardsman grounds-keeper was by a few times telling us about the island and I also strolled around as much as I could. About the same time, incidentally, the Omega company agreed to replace all the faulty fire sprinklers in Federal buildings (over 1 million) but was refusing to in private and commercial space (over 3 million of them I think). (The ferry when I was to it, was "The Swivel" and it was run by a Caterpillar engine. I later met its Captain digging test holes on and near Gateway Park on Staten Island, he had a "blond" Irish wolfhound he was walking. He stated that all the ferry crews had been fired and the City was trying to re-arrange everything based on new employees.) 1) There is a monument next to the swivel gun monument to Peter Zenger I can't recall what it was. Perhaps you might mention the swivel gun. 2) The eagles you show are Army eagles facing to the left, other eagles, from the Coast Guard era face right (or vice versa) on some of the other buildings. 3) Some of the iron work there was made by foundries in the Bronx (coal chute covers on the Officers "mansions" are from the Mott Foundry in the Bronx. The Janes and Kirtland foundry in the South Bronx made and assembled, the current US Capitol Dome during the Civil War for a little over $1 million. 4) It was reported that the first flight school by the government in the US was held there, planes catapulted into the air. There is also some talk of whether there was a canoe tied to Wilbur Wright's plane when he flew off there to Grant's Tomb and back and what happened to it, as it is now at the Smithsonian. 5) Recently some chatter had that the plans to "Operation Overlord" the D-Day invasion plans, were kept in the safe at the Admiral's House. 6) chestnuts (the edible ones) grow there near Fort Jay. Might they be the original Pagganck or Nutten that the natives then the Dutch called the island? 7) A Revolutionary War, unmarked cemetery was found when electrical upgrades were to be installed in parking lots to the west of the ferry landing. There is a marker there that might be good to include in any update of the site. Nothing other than the dates are known for those buried there once in the "field of view" of the Twin Towers. 8) General and President Grant's first assignment before Captain at Governors Island was as Lt. Grant, just out of West Point, to Sackett's Harbor, on Lake Ontario, near Watertown, NY.

And now for some American Archaeology

I had field school in Long Island Archaeology taught by R.M. Gramly, Ph.D., of R.P.I. and Harvard University (and other classes) in 1977, assisted by Margaret Gwynne, Ph.D., since a Stony Brook faculty member and Sherene Baugher, Ph.D., whose doctoral defense at Stony Brook I attended, who became NYC's first Landmarks Preservation Commission Archaeologist, now President of the Council For Northeastern Historical Archaeology (CNEHA, I am also a member) and at Cornell University in Landscape Architecture. As a graduate student I submitted a proposal in a "Archaeology Proposal Writing" class taught by a then National Science Foundation (NSF) advisor in their archaeology proposals, Edward Lanning. Ph.D. In that proposal class, testing and research was submitted for a site nearby the Vera Cruz, PA "jasper mine" which I had visited a number of times. The mine had been partially destroyed by the N.E. Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, lithics from it, (abandoned about 1610 A.D. according to early tree-ring dating by Pennsylvania's folk museologist, Dr. Mercer) found as far away as New England, according to the DOT sign. The Seem Seed Farm, where I mapped and collected some lithics, nearby, was then in the way of another interchange proposed, for Allentown, PA. I had worked in the nearby Hopewell Village Foundry, NHS, for the Dept. of Interior's Denver Service Center in the archaeology of the "Ironmaster's House" after receiving my B.A. We stayed in a youth hostel in Geigertown, PA, for cheap, included in the proposal. A retired teacher across the street from "Jasper Park" in Vera Cruz, PA, had shown me a fluted point dated by the U. of Penn., they said, "...to be at least 10,000 years old" which he found next door in the plowed corn field. While an undergrad I had visited various lithic source areas in the region with fellow students. In field school, we visited "Mt. Jasper" and it's rhyolite adit, near Berlin, New Hampshire, on the Androscoggin River drainage which has "curated assemblages" (estimated over 1/4 million in R.M. Gramly's published research) as tools were discarded and made from rhyolite (green to grey) found as far away as the Maine coast. A part of the Androscoggin River drainage (said to be America's "most abused" river in "Evolution of a Valley") it empties into the Atlantic after flowing through Maine. Cryptocrystalline quartz, the "jasper" in NE Pennsylvania, however, has another origin, not volcanic. It's said to be from nodule formation in limestone percolated by super-heated steam, and drainage. It is usually brown but turns red when heat-treated. This jasper in PA is also known as "turtleback" jasper, from the turtle shaped sections found, perhaps shaped to be carried a long distance as a turtle carries its shell. I worked with a flint-knapper there from Maryland who had such a piece, perhaps a morphological trait from primary flaking of the large nodules, formed under geological pressure.

Did Sir Thomas Urquhart translate this quote?

"Printing likewise is now in use, so elegant and so correct that better cannot be imagined, although it was found out but in my time by divine inspiration, as by a diabolical suggestion on the other side was the invention of ordnance." - Rabelais

Earthjustice - Take Action

I write in strong opposition to the proposed hatchery policy and its application to 27 salmon and steelhead species in the West. Wild salmon are the key to the recovery of the species and the communities and economies that depend on them, but the new proposal would have devastating, long-term impacts on the future of wild salmon and steelhead and their habitat. The proposal defies the goal of restoring abundant, self-sustaining, and harvestable populations of wild salmon, which would provide valuable economic and recreational opportunities. The Endangered Species Act was not intended to provide a means to conserve fish in concrete hatchery tanks. Rather, it was enacted to conserve threatened and endangered species and their ecosystems. Including hatchery fish in population counts of wild salmon and steelhead does not conserve those truly threatened and endangered species, but instead creates an incentive to continue harming the fragile ecosystems they depend on and to ignore much needed restoration efforts in those systems. Without good habitat, these species will face continued decline and possible extinction. This policy will accelerate that demise. Your own scientists recommended that hatchery fish should not be treated the same as wild salmon because this could increase the risk of extinction for these species. Your agency has ignored your own panel of experts, including six of the world's leading ecologists, who warn that this policy could prove disastrous for wild salmon stocks. The inclusion of hatchery fish will mask the ongoing declines of the wild fish by providing a false sense of security and recovery. Salmon and steelhead and their habitat cannot afford any more mismanagement. I urge you to withdraw your hatchery policy and propose that only wild salmon and steelhead and their habitat be protected under the Endangered Species Act. If this were policy in New York, we'd be known as the "brown trout" state, instead of the sport fishing it has come to be known for. Recently, sturgeon are being re-introduced into the Hudson River, once the source of food for many industries, i.e., the American Revolution (General Washington and 6000 French toops crossed it at Verplank, the Kings Ferry, to defeat Cornwallis in Virginia) sites later of brickyards, hotels, etc.

UFO's

Title: Avianca, The Airline of Columbia, Boeing 707-321B, HK 2016, Fuel Exhaustion, Cove Neck, New York, January 25, 1990. NTSB Report Number: AAR-91-04, adopted on 4/30/1991 NTIS Report Number: PB91-910404 Title: SAN SIMEON, CA HEARST PUBLICATIONS, INC. ACCIDENT DATE: 2/24/38 NTSB Report Number: CAB-FE38A