Thursday, December 16, 2004

Out-of-print science (o.o.p.s)

Back in 1977 I had an archaeology field school in Mt. Sinai Harbor, NY and elsewhere at Stony Brook University with R.M. Gramly, Ph.D., and others one the first and past NYC Landmarks Commission Archaeologist, Sherene Baugher, Ph.D., now current or past President of the Council for Northeastern Historical Archaeology at Cornell U. We had to use an out-of-print archaeology book "The Archaeology of Martha's Vineyard" (out-of-print remarkably, considering the State Archaeologist of New York wrote it William Ritchie, the NY State Archaeologist for many years) where he had done much research. Anyway out of print then, still is I think, it might make a good sale if brought back considering the people who live over there and elsewhere with an interest in the island... (Courtney Love was looking for a house there and the co-founder of the ACLU, whose grand-daughter I worked with in archaeology around Princeton U., Poppy Baldwin, now an archaeologist in Maine, of the New Jersey Baldwins of Montdale is it or Montclair the college where Mick Jagger's ex-wife performed in "Bus Stop" Jeri Hall of Texas, etc., the Luce's of publishing fame, and Claire Booth Luce, descended from the original surveyor of Martha's Vineyard [may have been Martins] who settled at "Luce Landing" on Long Island just north of Riverhead, NY now near "Northville" (once "Negrohead") an oil storage port with pipeline out in the Sound). ...may be interested in its republication, I know I would, those old copies don't last very long. - posted at histarch forum

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