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)