Secret Agent Ship?

My grandfather from Grand Manan Island, NB served on "her". http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/g3/general_simon_b_buckner.htm (The U.S. just launched a submarine that can carry covert operations around the world.)

Ed Rutsch in memorabilia (cont'd)

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 14:02:10 -0700 Reply-To: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY Sender: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY From: George Myers Subject: Re: "Big" Edward Rutsch, archaeologist I remember the first rime I encountered Ed Rutsch back in the 1970's through the lab/office of Edward Johanneman and Laurie Schroeder in the Graduate Chemistry Building at Stony Brook University, where Mr. Johanneman worked for some of the downstate archaeological research of highway projects, through the NYS Education Dept., and Phil Lord. A waste processing plant design I think had encountered a huge shell midden on Fire Island, NY and when I heard about it they were trying different methods of dating it with little success. They had tried a machine that would grab samples through it but that was crushing the stratigraphy and at a fairly shallow level of (rising sea level) it was very wet and the walls of the test probe hole would collapse, and the whole sampling idea, a series of depths removed and examined for artifacts or other data, compared to the levels below and above each, was unworkable. A part time palynologist at Earth and Space Sciences was consulted and a core was taken in the nearby pond or marsh and looking at the chenopodia ("goldenrod") associated with fire and land clearing, two dates were established for the general area, I can't recall them exactly, other than to say they would be about 700 AD and around 1300 AD. Another scientist microtomed hard shell clam and expanding the crossection, one could actually count the tides (2) a day on the shell and see the narrowing of their growth in colder winter weather (sort of like drought's effect on tree ring growth) and establishing a time of year when the shell was harvested. The shell guy also said it could be done for about $25 a shell. I think Ed Rutsch had sub-contracted some of this work to Stony Brook University and that he and Ed Johanneman were friends. I'm not sure where the report was from, I think around Captree on the Great South Bay. The Anthropology Department then moved to the then completed Social Sciences Building, and the lab spaces in Graduate Chemistry were "taken back" by the chemists. His later lecture on the Fort McHenry in Baltimore, MD, which I think his company was awarded a contract to investigate (as was his company for the West Point Foundry, adjacent and in the Cold Spring, NY National Register Historic District, and the Paterson, NJ Historic District, etc.) at the Neighborhood House, part of a tour of the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities holdings and district in Setauket, NY, was extremely helpful when in a series of archaeological investigations by the Dept. of Interior's Denver Service Center, I worked as as an archaeological technician at the Allegheny Portage Railroad Lemon House, the Hopewell Village Foundry Ironmaster's House, and on various features of Fort McHenry investigated in the interest partly of Public Safety. I left that tour which went on to assist the restoration efforts of of the "Summer White House" of President Martin Van Buren, in Old Kinderhook, NY, since returned back from its "white house and Italianate bell tower" to its original coloration, mauve, grey and greens (I think driving by once again to work on a now National Register "city gas" brick gasholder in Saratoga Springs, NY) to return to grad school. His reports to me turned into the "big story" which I ended up in often and a unique experience and opportunity to meet other archaeology types from around the country. George Myers

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"Honarary Subscriber: Horace Greeley" "Go west young man and grow up with the country," I seem to remember him saying. I spent a late summer in New York City's "City Hall Park", under the large bronze statue of Horace Greeley, sitting in a small couch while excavating the skeletons of of the "First Almshouse" nearby, during a very active restoration of the park back in 1999. Then Mayor Rudy Giuliani had the State of Arkansas flag flown over City Hall, ordered while visiting in Arkansas, causing a law to be hastily passed to stop it ever happening again. Next to "him" is a monument to Joseph Pulitzer, both on the site of the first museum in NYC, and near "newspaper row" where once the presses ran to inform the metropolis. They cleaned his statue that summer too.

Kinky Friedman for Governor of Texas!

[22:25] Doctor Chapman climbed almost to the top of Mt. Everest around 1976.
[22:26] Heidegger, Schwarzenegger's friend owner of Kiehl's drugstore near 14th St. NYC (makes stuff for stars) climbed without oxygen in the 1980's.
[22:26] 1/2 the store is the pharmacy (since 1854) the other half a motorcycle museum of sorts.
[22:27] Beverly Hills washes its hair and primps with Kiehl's products.
[22:31] near 14th St. on Third Ave. if you want to visit
[22:31] just a few blocks south of "Fat Tuedays"
[22:32] a few blocks south of "Fat Tuesdays" where Les Paul used to play now at the Iridium
[22:33] Steve Tyler visited him ther once
[22:33] and other guitar players
[22:33] I used to work across the street
[22:33] Finally on the Landmarks of NYC
[22:33] After 30 year fight
[22:34] Scheffel Hall, O. Henry frequented it.
[22:36] Perhaps wrote there, that Texas frontier pharmacist once before attending what Austin people think was the now torn down O.H (io) (P)en(itentia)ry.
[22:36] frontier pharmacist
[22:37] William Sydney Porter his real name.
[22:45] Actually after he did his time for bank fraud he came to NYC
[22:46] Left the country came back to his sick wife arrested for a bank teller job charge.
[22:46] Sent to the Federal Pen
[22:46] in Ohio
[22:48] Kinky Friedman, author, running for Governor of Texas writes in a style like him, that is about the streets of New York City.
[22:48] Kinky Friedman for Governor!

THE WAR OF THE WORLDS - SCRIPT - Orson Welles & the Mercury Theatre on the Air
http://members.aol.com/jeff1070/script.html

O. Henry
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ohenry.htm

Scheffel Hall
http://www.preserve2.org/gramercy/proposes/land/marks/190third.htm

A moment of Zen

Dharma, born in India, studied in China at the Shaoling, the form of the Ordinary, the bicycle of Japan. Zen origin. So the Bicycle Club said today. (There's one on Beale Street in Memphis, TN, with backgammon built into the tables, I met it's manager once on a Sunday, after Elvis' father died.)

Exhibitionist im Hochschwarzwald

Exhibitionist im Hochschwarzwald Es mehren sich jetzt aber die Fälle, wo sich die sonst als harmlos geltenden Fichten sogar als Exhibitionisten betätigen, die in unsittlich schamloser Art und Weise arglose Wanderer erschrecken und Kinder verstört aufschreien lassen. (Sorry you'll have to Google for the photo from the Upper Black Forest) Is this the Governor "Schwartzenegger" (L.A. Times cited in Brian Flemming's blog, who once ran for Governor of Califiornia, author of the musical "Bat Boy" soon to be a motion picture.)

"Well, he's only the governor

When I ran against the man, it took me awhile to learn how to spell Arnold Schwarzenegger's name correctly, too.

But you'd think the L.A. Times would have learned it by now."

Admiral Cornwallis and the Bronx River

Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 19:13:48 -0400 Reply-To: George Myers Sender: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY From: George Myers Subject: Re: Giant "corpse flower" raises a stink in Sydney "It was mis-perceived in the American Revolution, a British generals orders stating that he he sail up it to White Plains and defeat the rebels, although today one could ride a bicycle to White Plains along the "Greenway". I am hoping they put up a bike rack at both parks someday." (at least one at the Bronx Zoo) The recorded letter was to Admiral Cornwallis, I am sorry to have called the famous Admiral a "general" (maybe "Second trombone" would be better). For "arsenic and old lace" one might look at this interesting scientific analysis of King George and Admiral Cornwallis' wig. http://www.scientifics.com/Newsletter/release11_06_04b.htm By the way, if the French, 6000 strong hadn't marched across New England to Westchester, NY, near White Plains, and convinced Washington NOT to take the troops back into NYC but take a long march to Virginia to defeat General Cornwallis, with help from the French fleet, we might all be speaking English (or Welsh, Cornish, Gaelic, etc.) The troops crossed the Hudson River from the Kings Highway ferry crossing near the Kennedy House, where Alexander Hamilton was saved from a death of sickness, near Verplank, NY. In the same house a courts martial of General Lee from an early battle in New Jersey, was partially conducted, and he was later suspended for a year. According to the historian Barbara Tuchman (in, "The First Salute") General Washington viewed the crossing from a tall wooden tower constructed nearby. The remains of the Kennedy House, after it burned ca. 1979, were buried in an athletic field expansion of the nearby public school.

On seeing the FBI the FOIA (FOIL in NY State) online

Spooky seeing this again. It seems a little more responsive. I found out the FBI was following John Lennon around at Stony Brook University on Long Island, NY. Whoever, described "hippies and zippies" there. Graduated there went to grad school, I later met a code "Mao" who was being spied on in Puerto Rico because of politics. He got his info and showed it to me one day at the office. I was appalled by the quality of observation of someone doing an archaeological task, screening dirt. The "agent" sounded like a classic drunk. Anyone remember "zippies"?

For Ed Rutsch in memorabilia

Subject: Re: [Big_Ed] Digest Number 42 To: Big_Ed@yahoogroups.com As an observer, not a participant, though I have worked a three times in the City Commons/African Burial Ground Historic District for others (Grossman & Associates, Inc., Linda Stone, MA., Parsons, Inc.) not directly in the African Burial Ground but twice in regards to the "First Almshouse" burial ground within the confines of City Hall Park I would have to agree that what you say is true based on my serendipitous findings. I was employed by Greenhouse Consultants, Inc. to review "site files" in the New York State Anthropological Services Office in Albany, NY. As the "window" for this is extremely limited (a couple of hours of a weekday, partly due to staff shortages, done with written permission) I found I had some time to visit the State Museum next door, which was was being shut then soon for remodeling. I visited the "longhouse" listened to the grandmother's tale of Ursa Major how the Bear in the Sky got there and wondered at the portrait of former NY State Archaeologist, Arthur C. Parker, (Seneca name "snow snake" actually a winter game of the wide North Country) in "Blazing Saddles" regalia, Plains Indian feather headdress. On exhibit were all the then proposed memorial designs for the African Burial Ground, a block north of the "Tweed Courthouse" since (and not, now the Dept. of Education headquarters, former lab space in the basement there, behind bars) the future home of the "Museum of New York City" which I think was also judged by one in the group an archaeologist I have also worked with in NYC and NJ. Anyway, the winner was a series of columns, that were stratigraphic profiles instead of if you will "fluted" classic columns. Each one represented a circular section through the ground below allowing the visitor to participate in the variations of "horizons" represented in the ground below. The other competitors designs were all displayed in one place. Since the competition was re-let as the results were unacceptable. A counter sculpture arose in the Caribbean and was symbolically buried at sea at the Middle Passage. It was similar in my mind to a whalebone gate that once existed in Brooklyn, NY. Two large ribs if you will standing to create a "framed" gate, the sculpture was similar invoking tusks more like but square arches that did not touch. July 4, 1999 it left A NY State park from the Hudson River for the Middle Passage where it was dumped 1 kilometer for each of the burials removed to Howard University from the burial ground. Miniature copies of the sculpture were also sold. "Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?" - Alexander Pope Do you Yahoo!? vote.yahoo.com - Register online to vote today!

Killing poison ivy?

Killing poison ivy - Mix three pounds of salt with a gallon of soapy water and apply to leaves and stems with a sprayer.

Re: Great White Shark Breaks Captivity Record

From: "George J. Myers, Jr." Date: Fri Oct 8, 2004 12:41 pm Subject: Re: Great White Shark Breaks Captivity Record That reminded me of my grandfather taking a couple of us out in a rented rowboat somewhere around NYC maybe Sheepshead Bay (named after fish with well you see,...ahh!) in Brooklyn or maybe City Island, Bronx. Fishing with drop lines and worms we caught two ugly looking little things a black "spider crab" (like a small king crab but black) and a "sea robin" which has spikes that can puncture you, both on the bottom. I was in Skagway, Alasaka with the National Park Service, Denver Service Center, right after Mt. St. Helen's exploded back in 1980 (went by the clouds of ash in a Greyhound $99 special anywhere in the US to Seattle, WA) digging around the "Moore Cabin" orginally an American riverboat captain, Tlingit woman and his son, working what they thought was a Canadian homestead claim (the rest is Klondike history) and went dropline fishing with a William and Mary recent grad from The James River, "tidewater" Virginia. We caught a small fish with a huge mouth, with a piece of hotdog. We asked one of the rangers there what it might be, he said they call that an "Irish lord" and we had a big laugh. Maybe it was a small "dolly varden" (Salvelinus malma Walbaum) I heard about. Some mussels growing there on the rocks! They have this fish there "candlefish" with so much oil in it, well ahh, you see! The oil was stored and consumed as a staple by the Tlingit natives up there, especially in winter after hung on racks, reminding me of the smokehouses in Seal Cove a little. --- In GrandMananIsland@yahoogroups.com, webmaster@m... wrote: During the Cold War, I studied Russian at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey for a year. The campus was up the hill from the aquarium which, in those days, wasn't much more than the exhibit over at White Head Island. It certainly didn't have a million gallon tank as it does now. Of course, the aquarium always did have an excellent location near the boat basin, the long pier, and the rental fishing boat dock, so tourists all seem to end up there. It is also situated at a major intersecton along the coast highway to Carmel-By-The-Sea and Pebble Beach. My folks came out to visit several years later, and Dad and I went deep sea fishing on several days in a small outboard motor boat. We passed the aquarium entrance every morning and late afternoon to get to and from the rental boat dock. It was always packed with people. On the last day I caught one of those soup fin sharks, so named for the only edible part, which local Filipinos use to make shark fin soup. The creature was 52 inches long and weighed 48 pounds. It was the catch of my lifetime, for which an old fisherman on the dock offered me five bucks. :-) --- In GrandMananIsland@yahoogroups.com, "George J. Myers, Jr." wrote: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20041004/shark.html? ct=5599.84339241968 Once Grand Manan Island had the unofficial record for the length of a Great White Shark, something like 26 feet long found washed ashore in the 1950's. I saw this article and thought of the mola ("Among the largest bony fish; pelagic fish having an oval compressed body with high dorsal and anal fins and caudal fin reduced to a rudder-like lobe; worldwide in warm waters") or "headfish" or "ocean sunfish" my Mom said she saw beached on the Seal Cove Beach I think. (Gulf stream moving around?) I read one of Arthur C. Clarke's early science fiction novels over there on City Island in the park with the bronze seals, and in it they herd sea animals, out in the Pacific. I think the sunfish though solitary would make a good candidate for ocean "cattle" if they could be raised to swim like large "schools". Or maybe "whale sharks" real fishes that William Shatner helped to protect (a 50 foot fish!) For the latest on him see: http://www.shatnerhasbeen.com/

Giant "corpse flower" raises a stink in Sydney

Believe it or not, at one time this plant was the official borough plant of the Bronx. It was changed only recently. It happened due to an exhibit at the Botanical Gardens in the 1890s I seem to recall. Many people were recently alarmed by the legislators' choice, as it comes from Indonesia! The Bronx has the same Dutch inspired flag as Albany County except it has a wreath also on it. We have to have a corpse flower too? Giant "corpse flower" raises a stink in Sydney http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20041007/od_afp/ australia_environment_041007180448

White newswoman going to jail for CIA leak?

She's going to jail! Outta space, outta control, outta bounds. What can we do? By the way, "Grapes of Wrath" author used to live in Sag Harbor while we were growing up. Read his "Black Pearl" short story from a Mexican folk story, nice interesting short, should've been in Glass' class. Steinbeck's son was a journalist in Saigon, is sueing the "owners" of his father's legacy outta California, tryin' to take it all from him and family. They found the video of Jimi doin' Sweden over there in the 1960's (he toured a long time with Pink Floyd in local England, dude, his wife and kid from Sweden. Peace. Get her outta there!

Seeking Abandoned Water Wells

Near Surface Geophysics - Seeking Abandoned Water Wells One of the northern states in the US has a unique and very aggressive environmental protection program, especially with regard to water well management. Specifically, every property transaction that occurs in the state requires a disclosure of wells on the property. For properties with no well, then that is disclosed. For properties with a well, the well status (in use, not in use, or sealed by a licensed well contractor) and a rough sketch of the well location is required. GEM Advanced Magnetometer and Gradiometer - Quantum E-News, Fall 2004.

Grand Manan Island, N.B. Post

From: "George J. Myers, Jr." Date: Wed Oct 6, 2004 10:07 am Subject: Tuck Trucking Took my mother Adelaide for one of those "new clear" scans for cardio health and she had a copy of the Grand Manan newsletter, papier, from her cousin Esther from Castalia and Nova Scotia, and noticed another cousin Wayne's ad for an island moving company "Tuck Trucking" and just thought I'd bring it up here and drum up business. Need something moved around, call Tuck Trucking, tell 'em cousin George told 'ya. Thanks for the pictures of hard hat divers setting weirs around 1940, I think I see Uncle Garfield Parker in there with his distinctive shoulder injury, which is why he used to row standing in a dory I think setting traps. His tombstone has an engraved "shadow" of him rowing stand in a dory up in the North Head churchyard. My grandfather Lawrence Urquhart had a small house next door he sold to two island school teachers. We left a chalice in the church with his name on it last time we there. I hope they found it!

Question for Sam Donaldson of ABC

Stump the newsman! Former CEO of ConEd George B. Cortelyou (some at the National Archives have posited that he was the first White House Press Secretary, but I will not further that since they left out Dee Dee Myers in their purview) held three Cabinet posts under McKinley and Roosevelt (would be 4 today) once taught shorthand in NYC schools before becoming Chairman of the Republican Party (or GOOP grand old oily party) and died at "Harbor Lights" in Huntington, NY, was a secretary first. Sam, are many historical documents, important to say for example the Spanish American War, for example, still "hidden" in shorthand because no one has taken the trouble to translate them, now perhaps "lost" to American heritage? (my cousin George Murray, a eulogy read by Edwin Newman at the UN Chapel, directed "Huntley and Brinkley" when he as a film cutting editor filled in for the sick director, I was told. Viva la Signal Corps. Live long and prosper.)