Eagle Cries CD

A decade or more ago, I met Chief Leon Shenandoah who was a "Chief of chiefs" of the Iroquois when their Council was part of the review of an archaeological site in Fort Edward, New York part of a sewer line that turned up a multi-component site, including part of an old fort, once part a series of British forts that stretched down from Canada to the Hudson River in the now historic Champlain Canal direction. Grossman and Associates was involved in the archaeology when I went to work there under interesting circumstances, he was balancing that with work on a sewer line in Puerto Rico. We went on to evaluate EPA sites in NY and NJ including the site of the West Point Foundry (privately run by civilians, http://www.civilwarartillery.com/inventors/Parrott.htm) and the site of Civil War rifled cannons of Robert Parker Parrott in Cold Spring, NY. It was the modern site of heavy metal contamination from a firm making batteries for the NIKE missile defense system, that became obsolete, across the Hudson River from the West Point Military Academy and "next door" to their holding, Constitution Island. This is Joanne Shenandoah's music link. Leon Shenandoah's name was reported as "tah dah teh ho" (NY Times obit.), which she said means "head full of snakes" which is interesting as "Iroquois" has been reported to mean "real adders" thought by the Algonquian, who are in a different language family, north to Labrador along the East Coast of the U-S and Canada, Iroquoian spoken north to Ontario and south to North Carolina), his granddaughter's music, at least I think so.

Harpers Ferry

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mananite Bush was called to jury duty for a stripper DUI. Gonzalez accompianied Governor Bush (Texas) to the trial to make sure he didn't say the wrong thing at the jury selection, perhaps reasons for not serving (his wife killed her boyfriend in a vehicular manslaughter as a teen?) Sorry I was just listening to Democracy Now. Sorry, I can't wait for the season finale!

mananite I missed the Friday Enterprose I will watch Sunday

mananite Enterprise

mananite I found some nice wallpaper to_boldly_go1024.jpg w/ Scott Bakula in a space suit the crew and ship montage...To Boldly Go... ENTERPRISE

mananite Good blog scifidaily

mananite William Shatner ids God there

mananite I rememebr a chat on AOL or Cserve with Shatner and his daughter, frantic typing before Enterprise, he said he was a friend of Bakula of the family or something.

mananite And looked forward to seeing him in the role

tweek` it reairs on saturday's here

tweek` not sundays

tweek` at 3, i watched it earlier

mananite wish it did here

mananite where are you tweek'?

mananite Jeri Ryan was on the that show 2 1/2 men with Charlie Sheen this week it was pretty funny. Good to see her still in the theater arts.

mananite WHat adivorce!

mananite I'm learning some Canadian over at http://www.billcasselman.com

tweek` west virginia

mananite He's in radio TV and even has now done standup and publishes books about Canadians.

mananite West Virginia I had a guy tell me he was flying from Dever to Charleston and thought they were going to South Carolina and their baggae went to Charleston West Virginia!

mananite o they had everything changed to Atlanta and drove from Atlanta to Charleston, South Carolina

mananite His wife teaches at Columbine H.S. in Colorado

mananite I read if you want to go caving West Virginia's the place to go.

mananite Lots of caves there.

mananite Charleston is the capital of West Virginia

mananite I have to remind myself

mananite Isn't Harpers Ferry on the border of Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland? I was there when the last pope died.

mananite Where the Potomac and the Shenendoah join

mananite There was a large arsenal there of rifles

mananite And John Browns raid.

mananite It was burned to the ground in the Civil War

mananite There's a few HArper's Ferry rifles here and there in the antique places. Some of the gunsmith tools survived.

mananite Most of it lies twisted under the sediment from the terrible floods the place has every so often

mananite Washington thought he could dam it and run most of American industry from there it's said.

mananite Anyway that's my West Virginia story

mananite Being a New Yorker

mananite Here in the Bronx

STARR Wars

Revenge of the Seth's who speak... "Cartoon parody of Star Wars, featuring Bill Clinton, Ken Starr, Monica Lewinski, and all the rest" (a demo, links to Rhode Island Soft Systems, Inc., Woonsocket, RI) Or what I watched after I finally got the demo "Splinter Cell Chaos Theory" dled, (math majors get Fyre instead) and found it didn't support one card, mine GeForce4 MX. Turns out the same guy who posted the concert! Jonathan Aizen! Thanks Jonathan!

Buffalo's April Fools

Write a review for Grateful Dead: 1973-03-31 I attended this concert, after new friends had me listen to the "Grateful Dead" (a racehorse?) and the "New Riders of the Purple Sage" (which they produced I read), having seen them at Stony Brook U. one Halloween. A mirror ball was turned on at one part, in the 1st or 2nd jam and Jerry left the stage, (after midnight? I was there with an ex-Yippie, Jeffrey and Maureen, student/waitress at Frank Sinatra Jr.'s haunt on Bailey Ave.) and the concert ended when a three story locomotive front-end was revealed from behind the curtain as they played "Casey Jones". We saw them again, at the Watkins Glen Music Festival, with The Band and the Allman Brothers, a poorly run event, like Woodstock, in terms of food (read "Young Men With Unlimited Capital: the Story of Woodstock," after the NY Times ad that started it, the site is to have an amphitheater soon according to the NY Times). We randomly interviewed with videotape (SONY portapak) visitors at it with a friend who drove us there in a small white 1956 Harvester International school bus from Buffalo. Maybe you saw it? A women slid off it and I carried her piggyback to and from the medical tent where they set her leg (no charge!) Great recording of them. Is that an electronic tuner?

Mrs. Spielberg's trees

"Don't be stumped: savvy land owners ax trees to beat arrival of 'tree police' The rush to pass a preservation edict in Riverdale has led to what preservation activists attempted to prevent." RiverdaleReview.com - Online Edition of the Award Winning Weekly At Wave Hill once the British Embassy compound, Arturo Toscanini, a young Theodore Roosevelt and Samuel Clemens alias, Mark Twain, also once lived. Former President John Fitzgerald Kennedy as a young boy lived in Riverdale in the Bronx, NY, until the stock market crash, his father was interested in investing in the movies, which were being made here in NYC and Westchester (location, location, location now under the Kensico Reservoir according to Cranberry Pond Park) and moved back to Massachusetts according to a recent history article in the local press. Also in Riverdale, the College of Mount St. Vincent, mentioned, is the alma mater of the former President of the Phillipines, Ms. Corazon Aquino.

Xinhua - English "World's first tidal power station"

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-01/25/content_2505696.htm This opened in China, bravo. Years ago, there was one proposed by the FDR administration nearby to Campobello Island at the Passamaquoddy Reservation. I remember following the re-proposed as the "Half Moon Tidal Project" a feasibility study. The old system was started during the Depression and then, abandoned when the War came, other breakthrus in power generation in Maine or lack of funding. I was interested, and I think a small one does exist. Anyone know from the "Quoddy Tides"? I could write a "letter to the chairman" over in China, where my Uncle Nick Cirillo, once visitor and summer resident of Seal Cove, was part of the first American companies doing business in China after President Nixon's trip to China. He visited there, Sri Lanka, India and Bangkok, Thailand for his company doing business in the textiles. He also once carried a briefcase with a large scissor with which he cut the designers patterns into reality on Seventh Ave., the fashion district in NYC. I remember an international "incident" between U-S and Canada over tidal power a number of years ago. There was proposed for Nova Scotia, in the upper Bay of Fundy, a large tidal power generating plant. It was followed by a study of its effects I saw in "Scientific American" a magazine of science started in NYC in the 19th century. The study found that the tide at Boston, MA would be altered by 1/2 a foot and other effects in the tide would increase, perhaps, as one went north along the coast of Maine. With the widest tidal ranges on earth found in the Bay of Fundy, (second Mont St. Michel, France, on the English Channel) the effects must be a very complicated computation. Having once with my grandfather, driven to Grand Manan along Route 1 which hugs the coast of the Gulf of Maine in many places, one could imagine "unintended consequences". Perhaps smaller ones are better. One design being tested in Scotland, an underwater platform that uses the bottom current to hold the platform down as the water moves across the power generating blade looks promising, a "crouching tiger hidden dragon".

Xinhua - English "Remains of ten thousand year old rice"

Yahoo! Groups : GrandMananIsland Messages : Message 9224 of 9224

GrandMananIsland@yahoogroups.com, "George J. Myers, Jr." wrote: Also they have books about the Monty Pythons. Michael Palin has just surveyed "Himalaya" and another book investigates John Cleese's writing partner, in "The Life of Graham" Description:The definitive biography of the Python star ... Written with the full co-operation of the Pythons and Chapman's partner David Sherlock, this is the official biography of perhaps the most intriguing of all the Python team. Chapman was John Cleese's writing partner throughout their careers, but it was his off-screen antics that are closest to the surreal qualities of a Python sketch. The fascinating story of an unforgettable man. The musical, "Spamalot" by Eric Idle, et alibi, is currently playing in Chivago and I read at scifidaily blog, hilarious. Coming to Broadway soon, the SPAM company has decided to go with the flow and are issuing a special Python version of SPAM, looks kinda golden, and like a dead parrot...but anyway. I did enjoy Eric Idles' song he wrote while duck hunting "FCC the FCC" or something like that. I once studied social anthropology with Rex Jones who was a co-author of an ethnography from Nepal, published as "The Himalayan Woman" woot woot heh heh nudge nudge... George

McArthur & Company Publishing Limited

Canadians in the Civil War - Claire Hoy ISBN: 1-55278-450-9 Price: $34.95 Pages: 320 Canadians in the Civil War Description: The American Civil War not only subsumed Canadians at every level, it directly determined the shape of Canadian confederation. The U.S. Civil War was America's bloodiest war, involving three million fighters, some 600,000 of whom died. Most Canadians know something about its' American impact, but few realize that it also stands as a defining event in Canadian history. Thousands of Canadians fought in the war — about 5,000 died — and twice during that period this country, along with Great Britain, came within a whisker of all-out war against Washington.

Dave Barry's Blog

Oh when the skinks go marching in... Oh when the skinks go marching in. You know I want to be in their number, When the skinks go marching in. -1979 Last skink siting by myself on the former Waverly Plantation (the one with the albino peacocks) next to "Tennessee" Williams hometown, Columbus, MS. Ivan was woking on the barge canal...all the live long... Posted by: George on January 27, 2005 12:13 PM The Mississippi skinks lose their tail to escape capture and grow new ones. It's alarming to see!

Letter to Remember Shakti

I was looking at the site and at John's site and I want to thank you all. I have a question. MAybe this will help. Back when I was in school, "College B" a "Visual and Performing Arts" College in Buffalo, NY among different interests in residential education (the Cleveland Quartet was once in residence in the new Ellicott Complex in Amherst, NY) the Buffalo Philharmonic, which the college was indirectly connected, under the direction of Michael Tillson Thomas, held a concert on the "classical" roots of modern music which was half music like Ravel's "Bolero" and the second half was the Mahavishnu Orchestra, which at the time was a woman on keyboards, a bass, I think, John McLaughlin and someone on the drum set. They were all dressed up but the drummer an Indian I think played in basketball sneakers! Anyway they went on to record the piece with the London Symphony I think. Michael Tillson Thomas got in trouble with a drug charge at the airport. He now directs or conducts the San Francisco Symphony (or philharmonic). I have learned that his grandfather, Mr. Thomashevsky, is cited as the "father of Yiddish Theater" which was once in the "Bowery" an early American theater district, that was basically destroyed, the remains of it anyway, in subway construction on Houston Street (pronounced "howston" in NYC). Actor, Walter Mathau, whose Yiddish name was very long and almost unspeakable, started there. Early theater in the 1830's was performed there and today CBGB's, the Amato Opera, and the Bouwerie Theatre are still there. Anyway, I wanted to say, since I could not find the reference to the Buffalo Philharmonic night, I would like to say I enjoyed the performance. I had also seen another performance of the band at Stony Brook University, where I finished one degree in Anthropology, and remember a clear double bass drum set that was blue lit at one solo with (Billy Cobham? or Buddy Miles?) in which you could see though a transparency of drums. "Sat nam" they say at the kundalini ashram, "truth is his name".

Alivevila: November 2004 Archives

Interesting travel journal in Europe (Germany and France, i.e., visits Buchenwald, and The Gates of Ishtar, etc.) This link is to a diagram of Standard versus Flachspueler "w.c." (water closet in England) "toilet" in America. I was googling a MAXIMonline word (from "Lies Your Mommy Told You" article here: http://www.maximonline.com/grit/articles/article_6192.html) "scheisse-film industry" and found few references in English. This one is wonderful with pictures of Europe and links to recent exhibitions and happenings there in the EU. "Reminded me of a night I spent wrestling with a t***** in a "modern" ranch in America, near Stony Brook University. I was night managing the "Zum Zum" a fast Bavarian food place in the Smithaven Mall, and with school chums lived in a "development" house as a renter, from a guy who rented to teachers who lived together (how else?). Then, everyone had spray cans in the t*****. One squishy plastic top went into the t***** (hair spray) and I had to take the thing off the floor and finally snake it out with a coat hanger at 3 in the morning. The route through the t***** is often more complicated than you show (an "S" tunnel comes to mind, Thomas Cra**er the inventor of the modern one I read) and perhaps the German design, a prophylaxis against (hybris/hubris, we decided) clogs? ("Your comment was denied for questionable content.")

Observing Surveillance MPD Photos

Lower Manhattan is also post-1993 (the first attack on the WTC) covered with surveillance cameras everywhere, there's a group on line that maps them all known ones anyway, who ask what good were they? This link is to a picture of the U-S Capitol Dome, ("Last" button in the slide show) which was made and assembled, (replacing the previous "hat box") during the Lincoln administration, and cast in the South Bronx by the Janes and Kirtland firm, which made other capital structures. They built and assembled it for a little over $1 million according to a former Bronx historian, John MacNamara. He also wrote an interesting book on the history of the Bronx in the 17th century, its frontier era. Slide show from http://www.epic.org/ Electronic Privacy Information Center Another Watching Big Brother site: http://www.ombwatch.org/ OMB Watch

Study Examines N.Y. Contract Inequality

"The report, financed by the City Council, studied contracts from 23 mayoral agencies for the city, which is about 60 percent minority. Among construction firms, the report found that businesses owned by white males won 71.5 percent of the contracts, although they represented only 43 percent of the available contractors. Black-owned firms won 1.7 percent and represented 16.7 percent of available firms; female contractors won 3.2 percent and represented 21.5 percent of firms. Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani abolished most of the advantages that had been given to minority and female businesses, including eliminating a 10 percent price preference for such firms. But several City Council members said the study shows that institutional racism still exists. "

National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center Interactive Snow Information Comment

Hello. I studied "Planetary Atmospheres" with Professor Hogan back in the days of the Viking Landing on Mars and Tobias Owen's interdisciplinary analyses of planetary geology. I also enjoyed the Voyager flyby of Jupiter and archaeo-astronomy at Stony Brook University, studied astronomy with the professor who dated Kohoutec's now wife. Professor Solomon (not the woman director of the expedition) of the Astronomy Dept. went on the expedition to Antarctica there to research the "Ozone Hole" with an optical instrument. Anyway, "el niño" was just being discussed by Peruvianist archaeologist Edward Lanning, reflecting variations in the Humboldt Current and the movement perhaps of mangrove swamps up and down Peru's coast, way back then in the late 1970's also there at Stony Brook. I think the map is a great idea. However, if you look quite a bit goes into New Brunswick the province of Canada my grandfather came from, from Grand Manan Island in the Bay of Fundy, why not more of Canada? Especially the "snow hole," I would call it (opposite of a "black hole" snow piles up there) in the peninsula on Georgian Bay. Once upon a time a study was done of native subsistence methods and techniques there by R.M. Gramly, Ph.D., with whom I had archaeology field school with. It would be good if we stopped thinking of weather stopping at the border? At least for snow on the ground.

"Nuclear Wessels" is closed

I found this site, (http://www.cfmc.com/adamb/me.htm) and just started reading it. [He teaches a section of class in the history of the US in the 1960's from President Kennedy's assassination to President Nixon's resignation. - Ed. "Wilbur bring me some more hay!"] Came to it by way of looking for Anthony F.C. Wallace, who I read in anthropological studies in Buffalo, NY. I thought Rockdale was near West Chester, PA large shipbuilding town. It built the sidewheeler "S.S. City of Atlanta". My Canadian grand-uncle, Master Mariner Leman Urquhart, was the captain of it (in a long line of captains, that is many, apparently getting on and off, he a harbor pilot, was probably early in the war, "wanted" to get in and out of the Savannah and New York harbors) torpedoed with the loss of 43 lives off Cape Hatteras, NC in January 1942 by U-123. "Operation Drumbeat" by scholar Michael Gannon goes into the "Battle of the Atlantic" that happened, (again you might as a historian say, it's happened before, European powers fighting out their wars in the Atlantic). Anyway, on your guide to yourself page "changing nature of technolgy" should be changed is my comment? My own observations, of Grand Manan Island where my grandfather Lawrence Urquhart came from, is that technology, as he would agree, has helped make some things easier, i.e., vacuums to get fish out of holds, but now the whole world is close to losing its fisheries from over fishing. The cannery shut down on Grand Manan in Seal Cove where I once lived vicariously, next to the herring smokesheds, BumbleBee bought the Connors Brothers cannery there and now it's shutdown I hear. Canada is sponsoring an international meeting on overfishing. We need treaties without borders. First settled, Seal Cove, by an American, Dr. Faxon, whose loyalties challenged, left in the War of 1812, built the first sailing ship on the Island its written in "Grand Manan A Diamond in the Sea" which maybe I'll read someday. They still have a "downeast" (Maine) accent there, more English up in the North Head, where the ferry puts in and "Hemoglobin" with Rutger Hauer as a vampire(?) was filmed, around the Swallowtail Light now a "bed and breakfast". I work in "contract archaeology" (for a number of years) which, legally required, is being done less and less. Is lawlessness by the "legal" on the rise?

scifidaily blog WORD!

First I wanted to say "Zachariah" from the film of the same name ("We are the Crackers") but then after researching it further, I thought "Dave" from the HAL 9000 in "2001..." still makes my skin crawl, "Open the pod bay doors HAL" and the silence that followed is pretty A.I. scary. If had read those lips right!

The "Myers" problem

He was pretty chipper and fun to listen to, as he recalled people used to insist he spell his name Louis since there was no "saint" Lewis, which is an English spelling. I have a book of the Myers family, where 250,000 Myers' are in the U-S mostly State, the old State of Ohio, and the next largest group 25,000 families in Yorkshire, England. As you may know actor Mike Myers' family were from Liverpool, England nearby Yorkshire (Uncle Lew was once in the theater arts in summer stock in Connecticut I think). Interestingly there are now "Myers" in Austria and very, very few in comparison in Germany. Dad once said when I told him, "They chased them all out" from there. Though I also read "Meyer" or "Meyers" from Germany changed their names to the English "Myers" sometimes in Pennsylvania etc., to be more acceptable. I think there were quite a few on the British side of the Revolution too perhaps, which the British had many Irish and German Hessians fight for them as "mercenaries," many unwitting perhaps unwilling too, I've read. Also about 50 percent of the Hessians ran away once they got here and "checked it out".

U-S Inauguration day thoughts

Anecdotal too, years ago the "chit" given out for use at the "Canteen" was collectible, (NY history journal.) At Fort Drum, NY there was once an Italian P.O.W. camp and walking anywhere from there across the border, one would have to swim the now St. Lawrence Seaway, unlike an anecdote about Mexico. I think the camp was first a C.C.C. camp (Civilian Conservation Corps camp, there were Y.C.C.'s too, "Youth...) or so told during our Envirosphere Inc. survey (for Ebasco, Texas power plant builders, once in five top floors of the World Trade Center) initially archaeologically surveying the 110,000 acres for the relocation of the U-S Army 10th Mountain Division. I washed Melmac dishes in "Camp Timber Lake" near Phoenicia, (Allaben) New York in 1968. The USGS maps have it as "Camp Allegro" on the Broad Hollow Road in Ulster/Greene in the 1940s. ? While on another survey with a Welsh-Uruguayan (Mary FitzHerbert, recent grad with I, her husband part of Iberia Airlines) on a survey of then future, Tenn-Tombigbee Barge Canal, (which connects Mobile, AL on the Gulf of Mexico with Tennessee, and Ohio Rivers) we stopped in Aliceville, Alabama which has a small granite carved monument of a German man and a woman "peasants" in carved relief commemorating the P.O.W. camp there. Years ago, I mistakenly, asked the U-S National Archives about the ship S.S. Savannah (what I was actually asking about was the New York City, NY to Savannah, GA "Savannah Lines" which had the "S.S. City of Atlanta", which was built in 1903 in West Chester, PA, once a large shipbuilding town) early in 1942, was torpedoed by U-123 off Cape Hatteras with a Canadian grand-uncle in command. He also a registered "harbor pilot," advantageous then at war, I'm told for getting in and out of harbors. The "S.S. Savannah" which was renamed and armed, the National Archives wrote, picked up 243 (?) P.O.W.'s from a "German raider" off our coast. (A Q ship?) http://forums.audiworld.com/s4/msgs/737352.phtml There is an excellent book by Michael Gannon, "Operation Drumbeat" that goes into the "Battle of the Atlantic" (as it also went on in the days of "exploration"). It's been promised, that in the second edition re-printing, Master Mariner "Leman Urquhart," his name, once of Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, Canada, will be correctly spelled. While I anecdotally get to the U-S National Archives, I would like to point out, that Dee Dee Myers, though the White House Press Secretary for three years, in the William J. Clinton presidency, she was left out of an article about the origin and history of that job, though the only woman to have served in it. The article, on the history of "White House Press Secretaries," published by the National Archives, begins with a New Yorker, once also a chairman of the Republican Party, George B. Cortelyou, a teacher of shorthand, states he was the first to speak regularly to the press in the White House, after the shooting of President McKinley in Buffalo, NY. He also held three Cabinet posts. There is an interesting brick monument in the Adirondacks' roadside marking President Theodore Roosevelt's "swearing in" en route to Buffalo, NY, that I've stopped at that needs more protection or "signage" I thought to throw in too. Raiders of the Lost Ark fact: To shoot the scene on Sallah's roof, crew members had to remove 300 television antennas from homes in Kairouan, Tunisia. TV hadn't been invented in 1936. - seen at the "Indiana Jones and the Fountain of Youth" site.

JohnKerry.com

Bring the National Guard home! It started here in the Nation's First Capital, NYC. Senators Kerry and Boxer voted against Ms. Rice's confirmation as Secretery of State replacing General Colin Powell. He grew up here in the Bronx, NY. Stanley Kubrick, the drummer from Aerosmith, Tony Curtis, and Regis Philbin, who grew up a block from here, on Cruger Ave., and others did too. Dion's "Has Anyone Seen, My Old Friend John?" (the other Dion one who still sings songs) did too.

Stony Brook University Trumps Trump...he's so leveraged.

Do you know the President and CEO of the New York Times Company? Do you know the President of Stanford University? Do you know the co-chairman of IMAX? How about the person who brought the Swatch watch to the U.S.? You don't? You should - - they're all Stony Brook Alumni! Oscar winners! Emmy winners! New York Times Best Selling Authors! Learn about the successes of your fellow alumni and alma mater. Come to the: Stony Brook University Alumni Mid Winter Reception Thursday, January 27, 2005, 6 PM Club 101 101 Park Avenue, NYC (Enter through building lobby at East 40th Street) Opening Remarks by Stony Brook President Shirley Strum Kenny Featured Alumni Guest Speaker: Robert Roth (1977), EVP and CFO Home Box Office, Inc. Only a few days left. Don't delay. Sign-up today. $50 per person Food and Open Bar Stony Brook Students as Strolling Entertainers Music Multi Media Audio and Video Entertainment Stony Brook Memorabilia for Sale RSVP TODAY with your credit card by using the secure Alumni Web site at www.stonybrookalumni.com [http://www.stonybrookalumni.com]; or by email at alumni@stonybrook.edu [mailto:alumni@stonybrook.edu] or call the Alumni Office at 631-632-6330

Phoenix Mars Lander - Home

T minus 923 days and counting until the Phoenix Mars Lander Launch. It will go to Mars and dig up the ice at about 70 degrees North latitude in May 2008.

Are We In Iran Already? ("Slate" to 'In the Fray')

Of course we were. In 1979 or 1980 we had 100 Grumman built F-14 fighter bombers (then unit patch, "Anytime, baby", became "Make my day" and Grumman trained pilots and grounds people, what 250 crew per pilot, something like that. There were 4000 Grumman employees in a compound over there according to "Newsday"). I was sitting next to the F-14's test pilot on his birthday when the media announced, (his wife invited me over to watch "Ishi - the last Californian Indian" He, Ishi, was anthropologist A.L. Kroeber's friend, whose daughter Ursula K. Le Guin, is a famous woman sci-fi writer. Ishi's brain has recently been "repatriated" removed unknown, it's said, to Kroeber) we would blow up all the planes for the air-to-air technology if the USSR made a move for the Iran border, during the takeover of the U-S Embassy, taken over by the students sick of the Shah's "Savak" secret police operating with impunity here in the U-S, which Henry Kissinger said he could do nothing about. Sure, but you know those planes have been fixed since, in the 1980's I think by Langley, they used to "Top Gun" fall out of the sky sometimes (a Brad Holbrook TV report in Albany, NY), and they sure make some cloud going through the sound barrier (short eyewitness video ship-side) and we're retiring ours the ground "scarecrow" is developing a crack in its wing, as reported. Anyway you bet we're in Iran already!

The Montauk Club

25 Eighth Avenue, Park Slope Sun:1pm-4pm, last entry 3:45pm architect: Francis H. Kimball, 1889 services: restrooms available, food/beverages Inspired by a Gothic palace along Venice's Grand Canal, the Club is often referred to as the Crown Jewel of Park Slope. Step past the Club's famous frieze frames to enjoy the stained-glass windows and mahogany-paneled interiors. subway: 2, 3 to Grand Army Plaza, Q to 7th Ave. www.montaukclub.com I've been here a couple of times for family gatherings. My cousin, who makes "Vivian" wedding clothes for kids, and family are members. The terracotta moldings, or "frieze" which the photos on the sites don't show, depict the "contact" between the native Long Islanders and the Europeans.

HighBeam Research: Library Search: Results

"Riding around: marching to a different drummer the 2004 BMW R1200C Montauk. Rider; April 1, 2004; Hansen, Jim ... repeats, this newest creation, the R1200C Montauk, will continue to be embraced by a core ... closer to mainstream thinking, the new Montauk (named after the historic resort town ... the brand's unique qualities. With the Montauk, BMW is betting the changes found on this ..." BMW Motorcycle named after Montauk! Where George Washington had a lighthouse built. Unfortunately, around 1910, the native Montaukett were dispossessed of the land in Federal court, (some are in Michigan) which I think may have met in the "Tweed Courthouse," (finished by Mayor Fernando Wood, [recently was to be the Museum of New York City, Mayor Bloomberg stopped that, NYC Board of Education is there now]), over one of the doorways, is painted "Suffolk County Federal Court" on the glass (southeast corner room, 1st floor). They've fixed up the courthouse, it was a mess, some of the basement casement windows were filled with water, looked like aquariums! There's a locked tunnel from there to City Hall, and a power tunnel to the Surrogate Court across the street I worked on in Chambers Street. It once had one closet elevator, with the grand stairways. Seen sometimes on "Law and Order" for courthouse interiors well lit by its central glass dome, with glass blocks in some of the floors also. I also worked in City Hall Park on "Almshouse" burials [and others apparently] and found two burials together that required that the proposed water fountain be moved so as not to disturb the "conjoined" burials. So much for the Indian motorcycle, huh? Other Montauk "facts" (same source): Rought Riders Saga / Recalling Montauk's Camp Wikoff Newsday; August 14, 1998; Bill Bleyer Rought Riders Saga / Recalling Montauk's Camp Wikoff By Bill Bleyer. STAFF WRITER ... hundred years ago, the rolling plains of Montauk were dotted with hundreds of white Army ... his Rough Riders - who were shipped to Montauk for quarantine, medical By George, It's Still Here / Built by President Washington in the aftermath of the Revolutionary War, the Montauk Point Lighthouse has withstood wind, time and tide. Newsday; June 2, 1996; GEORGE DEWAN ... the Revolutionary War, the Montauk Point Lighthouse has withstood ... would build great fires at Montauk Point to call council meetings ... Some maritime mishaps near Montauk Point have left their names on the maps. In 1862, the huge, double ... Andy Warhol property divided. (Montauk Long Island, New York property owned by estate of Andy Warhol subdivided; 15.1 acres donated to The Nature Conservancy) Real Estate Weekly; September 8, 1993 Joseph A. Grotto, president of J. Grotto & Associates, Inc. reports a completed partition of the Montauk Long Island beach front property owned by the Estate of Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey. Grotto, and Joseph Grotto, Jr., acted as ... STEVE WICK Newsday 05-07-1998 LONG ISLAND: OUR STORY / The Mogul Of Montauk / Carl Fisher created Miami Beach, but his plan to duplicate the feat on LI ended in ruin. SIDEBAR: WORKS BY FISHER ADORN MONTAUK. (See end of text.) BY STEVE WICK. STAFF WRITER Carl Fisher was a blustering, cigar-chomping promoter. Above all, he was a dreamer. Born in rural Indiana in 1874, Fisher was only 12 years old when he began making money by staging downhill sled races to advertise a dry-goods store. He dropped out of school and opened a bicycle shop at 17. His goal, he told friends, was to be a wealthy inventor. ... MITCHELL FREEDMAN Newsday 06-18-2004 ON GUARD IN MONTAUK Keeping water at bay Federal study may look at restoring natural flow of sand BY MITCHELL FREEDMAN. STAFF WRITER In a few months, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will open bids on a project to dredge out the boat channel in Lake Montauk, a conduit used by the busiest commercial fishing fleet in New York State. The sand and silt will be pumped out and deposited just to the west of the rock jetties protecting the inlet, creating a beach. But it won't last. In a year or two - three if the weather is unusually good - the houses ... Of course there's always more. Interestingly, Theodore Roosevelt's friend and illustrator, Frederic Remington has a museum way up on the Canadian border with New York in Ogdensberg, NY. I was doing survey along the St. Lawrence Seaway, to test "return properties," (taken in "eminent domain" on the U.S. side. The Fifth Amendment was also added to require just compensation. The Bill of Rights was a sticking point in New York State, who would not sign the U.S. Constitution until there was one) in the water-powered electrical generation/shipping locks system, co-run US/Canada with a dam at Messina, NY, for archaeological potential as required by law. We visited the Frederic Remington Art Museum (303 Washington Street Ogdensberg, New York. Interesting to see an Amish carriage tied up to a light pole in a parking lot nearby there, quite a few in upstate New York, split off from the PA ("roaring branch"?) in Schoharie, NY I once read). The museum had just opened a new exhibit room, to accommodate the larger paintings, which had not been seen. One was interesting, a "composite" of a "Rough Riders" charge up San Juan Hill in the Spanish American War. It showed white troops and a token African-American together, though that was this symbolic painting, not the reality of those that served there, it was pointed out by the the docent or guide, as an "icon" I suppose or symbolic depiction. If one is interested in the American West, it could be a "must see" for the well-known bronzes and paintings of scenes that were disappearing as Frederic Remington and Theodore Roosevelt witnessed. Some of it reminds me of the Roosevelt place in Oyster Bay on Long Island. There's a room of collected materials, as if Frederic Remington was still around there someplace. The Canadian fort just across the St. Lawrence River, built after the War of 1812, in the 1830's I think, just in case, is very interesting too. Many of the steel bridges across the St. Lawrence were built by Mohawk natives who also work or worked in high steel construction in New York City. There are interesting stone "lock-like" structures in some places in the river that have no known time dating them, yet.

TB and blacklights

Thanks for the photos they're like "photoshop" stuff I heard about. First the Whole Earth Magazine (Marlon Brando used to give them some money for water quality issues, think his son Christian did Blake's "wife"? My father's local Teamster 804 President a UPS driver became the President of the whole freakin' Teamster's Ron Carey fighting corruption, the government started an incriminating rapsheet and they got Jimmy Hoffa, Jr. a lawyer as President now) had flying saucers flying through the streets of San Francisco. Looked real! Imagine we're not so gullible anymore with photos of some things. I had changed some of the letter I wrote you and posted it at by blog which I've been writing in every couple of days to keep the grey and white cells functioning. I once borrowed Mrs. Marjorie Page's library card (she sub taught at Dawnwood and went on the get her certificate, a Stony Brook Alumni, but they cut the teaching program up there about the time Ellen and Andy where seeing each other!) and painted the cross section of a brain in dayglow on my wall with a "LSD" dagger sticking in it where I think LSD works. I had fun with those dayglow paints from Edmund Scientific and a black light. My favorite is a circle of the world which shows everything BUT Antarctica, painted that on the wall too. Something that blacklight they're putting in Korean shopping malls and centers see it kills TB bacteria, the Peace Corps once selected me to go over there and inoculate Koreans. Let them inoculate themselves I thought. Why would I want to stick needles in their arms? I had asked them to send me to Africa perhaps, my cousins, my uncle, my grandfather had all been in or to Korea. Oh well. TB and black lights who'd figured? (maybe half of sentient San Francisco?) Once when we lived together it was 5 degrees out a spray can cap went into the toilet. I had to take the whole thing apart and coat hanger that pesky spray can top out of the toilet. I wonder how many people that's happened to? Howl...

School Music

I remember them and how sometimes I'd lose the beat thinking Mr. Fried, the music teacher was Alan Fried and Mr. Lafayette the band director looked like a radio tube. Mr. Lafayette apparently played tennis with Don's father they knew each other from Lindenhurst (?) where Lou also from (his folks had a 7-Eleven and retired to one in Florida. Lou was usually watching the store). Mr. Trucello, the renowned music director at Newfield was "kicked upstairs" since his music programs went so well at Newfield. I got there just in time to see him leave. 1960 or so they wanted to give me a trumpet to play but my Dad worked nights then in Lindenhurst! So this guy played the "Flight of the Bumblebee" (by Russian general Rimsky-Korsakoff) on a clarinet and instead of the bassoon I wanted to play started out on a rental clarinet (they were out) from "Keyboard Corner" in Ronkonkoma now "Fretboard Corner" last I looked. The only kid however with a "liquorice stick" the rest of the clarinets were marching band metal chrome, I was a little embarrassed. I was waiting for Mr. Abrahms music lesson off stage when President Kennedy was shot and put my clarinet away and went back to the classroom after he was a no show. He played sax during WWII friendly guy, his mom sent him socks in a sax bell, he thought it was broken. Spitting a rice grain between your lips is how you sort of tongue the old reed instruments. My brother had one too, he played the alto clarinet a little smaller than a bass clarinet, and I then played alto sax, bass clarinet, and tenor sax in the school band with Albert and Margaret. Happy New Year! Gossip..."Metronomes" was the stage dance band at Newfield H.S. They needed more formal lessons like syncopation what's a syncopation? Saxophonist John Coltrane lived and composed in Huntington, on Long Island, nearby then. I hope they can preserve his house. I later got a B on Grade 5 (1-6?) State Competition music on a solo saxophone piece. Don got an A on Grade 6 tuba music and went away on a music scholarship.

Eye Candy

Arkansas Satellite & Hobby Supply www.bigdishtv.com Jeff Russell's STARSHIP DIMENSIONS www.merzo.net Marc Liron - Microsoft MVP In Digital Media (one of the 50 or so in the world) www.updatexp.com/ "Book most owned by American libraries with the word "fuck" in the title" http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1288220&lastnode_id=475645 The Ice Opinion : Who Gives A Fuck? Ice-T and Heidi Siegmund, New York : St. Martin's Press, 1994 (ISBN: 0312104863) Maybe you've seen him on "Law and Order"? He markets a drink too.

The Diamond Sutra

Seasons Greetings (today many trees are on the curb here in the "wild" Bronx). Here is what I propose, which is really just forwarded from others in the contracts of NYC. If, as is stated, all contracts are subject to the "minimum bid rule" (given to the lowest bidder) then residents of the City, if within five percent (5%) of the lowest bid should be given the contract to perform. I have read of other contracts that have been disasters, though even paid extra for finishing before the contract deadline and then having to be redone, performed by in-state and out of state. Years ago I never completed an "Economic Anthropology" course with Pedro Carrasco, a Mexican scholar who was then the Chairman of the Anthropology Department at Stony Brook University where I was about to, in the Ph.D. program, work on my Masters essays, having passed my comprehensives. The problem was economics and I took a years Leave of Absence, and got involved in archaeology rather than just read and report about it. Dr. Carrasco had been studying markets in Tibet and had to flee when the Chinese invaded. I also had a professor who co-wrote the "Himalayan Woman," Rex Jones, who informed me of Edmund Hillary's recent loss of a daughter in an air crash in Nepal, he had visited my 3rd grade class back in 1961, with the World Book. My Physical Anthropology teaching assistant, Yugen Gombo, was also a Tibetan native. So I sometimes feel odd about digging up Bardo just below their retreat on the Hudson River after "scientific" archaeology failed to find the old cemetery in J. P. Morgan's former summer place, Bowdoin Park. Unfortunately one of the rangers there also jumped off the nearby bridge to his death a few winters ago. Many years ago Dr. Carl G. Jung wrote the introduction to the "Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation" and I have been following the "Diamond Sutra" that is the Dalai Lama (Tensin is his first name strangely like Tenzing Norgay who first went to the top of Everest with Edmund Hillary, the road between them is open again, and, I hear for centuries they had no political border) travels into the Western World where this year he met Bishop Desmond Tutu. It was part of my self-directed study of the writings of Carl G. Jung who was once the head of the international psychotherapy association, which met in Germany where he was "related" (by marriage to Goethe), his teacher Sigmund Freud from Vienna, Austria, when I attended community college in a former sanatorium, another of which Jung's grandfather maintained in Switzerland. They recently found pictures of Dr. Freud with his home movie camera departing the plane in the Westchester Airport, where he stayed with a local physician in the 1920's. He was very fond of film and the physicians family "leaked" it to the press. Professor Jones in a lecture stated that social scientists have found no correlation with any one religion and suicide among humans, apparently it is a similar statistic in all of them. Perhaps, a huge study might be in order?

Save 295, Bowery, Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York, NYC, USA

One of my last research jobs, (awhile ago, back when the Concorde jet crashed, which I once also saw at Mirabel Airport outside Montreal, Quebec picking up a Sir Freddie Laker flown crew member to do archaeological testing along the St. Lawrence River in New York, once new and beautiful but now closing due to lack of use), was examining the lots near this site and it too for a company called "Wall" something. It was almost as if we were told (myself and another) that these locations had already been decided to be condemned, the link shows both properties also included, others examined mostly current parking lots or empty nearby, some once cemeteries since moved. Here is some of my notes about these standing structures. According to the stamp issued by the US Postal Service, "First Germans arrive 1683 in Pennsylvania aboard the 'Concord'". The 295 Bowery "Steuben House" (NYC Directory 1869) and adjoining "Germania Assembly Rooms" are important to the history of the City in a number of cases. For example, the first woman elected to the executive branch of a union, Kate Mullaney of Troy, NY, was elected in the Germania Hall, while sitting next to feminist Susan B. Anthony, who appears on a US $1 coin, recently replaced by another commemorating the woman who helped guide the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Sacawajea. The 96th Armory was once housed in there according to old maps. Checking with the records of the State of New York there were, however, problems in determining what the designation meant. i.e. the history of the 96th seems shrouded in mystery. What follows are some tentative hypotheses for them. 1) Germania Assembly Rooms (lower structure next to the tall one) part of or associated with the Germania Bank of New York City founded in 1857. Now part of the Apple Bank for Savings. At this time 1857, the Trinity Church establishes an outreach center on the Bowery to provide food and counseling to needy families as the number of unemployed in New York City reaches almost 40,000 according to the Trinity Church Internet site. 2) The Regimental Records of Archives in the New York Library in Albany, NY have a section for the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) citing a 96th Regiment. Further investigation showed that the men mustered in from Northern New York and Vermont with a few from New York City. According to the "Encyclopedia Americana - International Edition" (30 volumes, 1st published in 1829, Grolier, Inc., Danbury, CT 1992) Leo Hershkowitz, a Queens College, CUNY professor who has also researched for archaeologists early New Amsterdam, for a site between Whitehall and Broad streets, in lower Manhattan: "The Street is one of the oldest in the United States. It was known originally as Bouwerie Lane, from Governor Peter Stuyvesant's bouwerie (farm) which was nearby. Later it was called Bowery Road, but in 1807, it became simply Bowery." - Vol. 4, p. 365. The famous "7th Avenue Armory" where the antique trade meets every year, the "first" built with private monies, first was located on a large site on 6th street and near 2nd Avenue just a few blocks from 295 Bowery. The National Guard, with its armories, started here in New York City, as the new Republic met here its first capital. It is almost odd to read of later "National Guards" associated with other states, the original here in New York City. These here may have been older veterans called out to protect Washington, D.C., later disbanded on Brother (Big) Island at the end of the American Civil War. Another reference calls into question the behavior of the National Guard during the "draft riots". An officer in charge was court martialed, which I had not the time to further research. The "draft riots" were mostly caused, it's thought, over the exclusion of draftees upon finding a substitute or paying $300, a large sum at the time. Perhaps the records of the court martial would show otherwise? Suicide Hall, 295 Bowery

La Gloire

La Gloire

La Gloire, Ironclad!

History's first ironclad... Oddly, also spelt La Glorie, Ironclad! perhaps a hack? Or an error...

Gardiner's Island Redux

"Since 1639, Gardiner's Island has been known by the name of the family that acquired it. Lion Gardiner purchased it from native Indians, his title being confirmed by James Farret, who three years earlier had been employed by William, Earl of Sterling, `Secretary of the Kingdom of Scotland,' to sell lands for him on the whole of Long Island, although at the time the Dutch were in possession there." p. 337, in "Historic Homes of Eastern America," Elise Lathrop. Tudor Publications, N.Y., 1927. c) Robert M. McBride & Co. Found at the Huntington Free Library, Westchester Square, Bronx, NY, which also until recently contained the written ethnology holdings of the Heye Foundation, that catalog now with the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. As a member of the Suffolk County Archaeological Association and graduate Anthropology student I had the opportunity to hear Robert Gardiner speak on a couple of occasions about Gardiners Island, (he also once owned the Gardiner Manor Mall in Babylon, NY. His book-keeper there at the Mall, Mrs. Washington, now an employee of the Peconic Trust, a land buying preservation society, and I worked in an archaeology company, Greenhouse Consultants, Inc.) One must remember that U.S. Senator Gardiner was killed when a cannon, the NYC's Haddersley Forge contributed "Peacemaker," aboard the U.S.S. Princeton, exploded while being fired in salute to Mount Vernon on the Potomac River. His daughter, below decks with President Tyler, later became the Mrs. Tyler and First Lady, after the first public funeral (Senator Gardiner of New York and two Cabinet members, and there were other victims) held in the Capitol Building. I asked Mr. Gardiner why the treasure of Captain Kidd was dug up in the late 19th century by the British. He said that the USA did not exist then and all properties of convicted felons became property of the Crown. There was a map to it in his vest pocket when he was hung, for what some historians have claimed an accident under mutinous conditions, perhaps he one of the most maligned characters in western history, as his backers in the privateer venture in London never came forward. He was a well to do resident of New York City. A marker is on the island where the treasure, part of an India Princess' dowry (taken in the Indian Ocean), was dug up. It was recently broadcast on PBS that the wealth from it was used in part for a seamen's retirement facility and hospital. Mr. Robert Gardiner also served in WWII aboard the modern U.S. Princeton in Naval Intelligence. Later, on his recounting the story of the former First Lady Julia Tyler's legacy with President Tyler (six children from his former wife four from her) actor Gloria Swanson remarked she would have to be played by someone like Vivian Leigh. Mr. Gardiner attended law school, where he had to hide the precedent setting "contested will" case with his family name ascribed, resulting after the "cease fire" arranged between the North and South in Richmond, VA, where and when the Former President Tyler died and she requested to return through the battlefield to New York City, later bedside by a wealthy Manhattanite. The case was popularized by the press. Robert Gardiner was also instrumental in getting the widespread use of DDT controlled, bringing public attention to it when he noticed that the ospreys, "sea eagle" raptors of the waters that nest on eastern Long Island, Gardiners Island, and elsewhere, were dying out. They migrate to and from northern Brazil every year. They were disappearing, as the DDT weakened their eggshells, causing them to break before hatching. Recent stands there and elsewhere on Long Island have encouraged their comeback from near extinction, perhaps.

George B. Cortelyou

Posted today (Polpot overthrown) Talk:George B. Cortelyou From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. My family tells me he was once married to my great aunt Rosalie Myers. Once looking into it I discovered he was once Chairman of the Republican Party and more recently read this: The U.S. National Archives published an article on "White House Press Secretaries" and stated that because of the assassination of President McKinley (at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, NY [1901] where Mr. Cortelyou is seen in a photo standing next to the President here online) the press was invited into the White House where Mr. Cortelyou spoke to them. Oddly, when the article was written Ms. Dee Dee Myers was in service in that capacity, but was not within the article referred to, though she served in that capacity for three years, I think. Other men that followed Cortelyou were. I am also under the impression that historians consider George Bruce MacDonald Cortelyou, overlooked in American History and his papers should be reviewed and reported about, such an important chapter in history, the Spanish-American War, the beginnings of conservation, included. I wonder if many of his records are in shorthand, which he taught in school in New York City. He is listed as living at 4 Irving Place where he was an early CEO of Con Edison in NYC, near Elihu Root's surviving landmark place (former Secretary of War) also on Irving Place. The Con Edison Museum, around the corner on 14th Street, has him listed among it's many executives with names posted on an exhibit wall. And: "...live in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C. "Victorian Homes" magazine recently featured their home as a "living museum" and "A trip back in time." Built in 1901, the three-story, red brick Victorian mansion once belonged to George Bruce Cortelyou, ("...married to Lilly Hinds" - Daniel W. Mattausch) who held various positions in the administrations of Presidents McKinley and Teddy Roosevelt. Nancy works for the Navy Program Office in Crystal City, Virginia. Dan has a master's degree and doctorate in American government and spends most of his energies researching the history and lost technological knowledge connected with gas lighting." http://www.spu.edu/depts/uc/response/Sum97/fn/news.html George B. Cortelyou also later lived at the "Harbor Lights" estate in Huntington, NY, where he was a member of the Huntington Yacht Club. He is listed in the local history section of the newspaper "Newsday" with Harry Chapin, as the other former famous resident of Huntington, Long Island, NY. Some other resources: Further: Picture at "Find A Grave Cemetery Records" http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6850514&pt=George%20Cortelyou http://www.findagrave.com/php/famous.php?page=cem&FScemeteryid=641128" Check out the other notables in the Memorial Cemetery of St. John in Cold Spring Harbor, Suffolk County, New York. CBS founder and others.

Red Ink and Rewrites?

This blog's name refers to a publication created from prose and poetry back in high school at Newfield H.S. on Marshall Drive in Selden, NY (incidently the automobile is covered under a number of patents referred to as the "Selden patents" so beware imitators!) back when the Marines came to the school, back when the first Earth Day festivities began 1970. The school newspaper "Quadrangle" was supplemented with a yearly publication which people submitted works to. The Marine Corps JROTC there was the first I think in the country, (one Army in CT, the Navy and Air Force on the West Coast according to my research). I tried to get one student paper more frequently published by pamphleteering the school, with the help of the Smithaven Ministries, with "Freedom" in which I stated, behind the cover of an outline of the Statue of Liberty, to publish just about anything. Only one issue got distributed to the arriving buses behind the high chain link fence at the "dead end" of Marshall Drive that Newfield High School is on. One of my helpful friends reported being beaten up by a janitor for it. Prior, a former student, Ariel Marino, died in Vietnam, in a demolition unit. A somewhat recent "Defense Monitor" on PBS (maybe its last transmission) stated that there are now 20,000 JROTC in mostly poor schools around the country at a yearly cost of $1 billion. They asked if this in the age of "volunteer service" which Newfield H.S. helped usher in, is necessary? I wonder if its legal, it seems discriminatory and perhaps sexist, let alone relegated to only one branch of the Armed Services. Towards the end of the draft, I (in the class of 1970) was given a number and thereafter watched the official ending of the Selective Service's draft. I stayed "1A", though attending the local community college, (thereby elligble for a "student deferment") in "Marine Technology" the scientific study of the marine environment, which I left after I was told there would be no jobs in it on Long Island as the environment was dying. What a dilemma! I was at my Aunt Margaret Murray's wake (nee Myers, oldest of eleven children, my Dad, a US Army 81mm mortar WWII veteran who served in Italy, was the youngest) yesterday, she passed away at 101, a few days ago in Huntington, NY. Her son, once an Army Captain in Korea, directed "Huntley and Brinkley" and produced "NBC Nightly News From New York" and lastly, both Democratic and Republican Convention coverages for CBS in 1976. His eulogy, he died in Mexico City where his wife, an Avon executive worked, was read at the UN Chapel by television journalist and author Edwin Newman, who read aloud a letter he wrote that apologized for the cancellation of the report to his crew there, a report on the "common soldiers view" of the Vietnam Conflict, cancelled by "higher ups". I wasn't in either places, that the NBC network was sued for 100 million over its allegations of "body count" manipulations by General Westmoreland had nothing to do with it. ("Video: “The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception� [1982] - a shot of General Westmoreland; TV documentary blames the general for misleading the people; attacks the Pentagon and the military; General Westmoreland sues the network for $100 million- this was settled;" http://www.lorenam.com/vianello%20notes.htm). Quite a few years later I read a local history in the Middle Country School District #11 (which I also worked for as a substitute teacher and a night janitor) library that Selden, NY was named after the judge, Henry Rogers Selden, (http://winningthevote.org/HRSelden.html) who testified on behalf of Susan B. Anthony in Upstate Rochester, NY. Ms. Anthony had posed as a man to vote (women were not allowed then) and he, though it was and still is unwritten law that judges do not testify in court for other people, he did testify as to her character and sincerity, before the passage of the Twentieth Amendment, which is, "An amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1920; guarantees that no state can deny the right to vote on the basis of sex" - Word Web 3.02. Wish I had known all that then.

Humanitarian Demining

Vulcan 3-D Laser Measurement System RFP for US Humanitarian Demining back in 2002. I wonder how it worked out? I've worked indirectly (good idea in HAZMAT) in 3D survey on archaeology sites (proton and cesium magnetometers, ground-penetrating radar, magnetic inductance and resistivity surveys, Rollei close-range photogrammetry used on a couple of sites and infrared transit used on many, for Joel Grossman, "Dr. Gadget"). We once found two Parrott shells in the West Point Foundry next to the "prototype" of the "Swamp Angel" R.P. Parrott's Gun Platform. I was first briefed by EOD before we did the initial archaeology survey of Fort Drum, NY, which has been used for target practice for years by tanks and more, lately A-10 "tank-killers" before they were moved out west from Syracuse, NY and the US Army 10th Mountain Division was moved from Camp Hale, CO to NY. I was at West Point Academy the day anthrax showed up from the Post Office, to do archaeology survey in the "tree throws" (from "Debert Site", a paleo-site in Nova Scotia, an arms range) of Hurricane Floyd. With Panamerican Consultants too I worked at Picatinney Arsenal, NJ next to an old rocket assembly plant, long small multiple joined "sheds" with a forest of lightning rods sprouting out of their roofs up on a hill. Steam service runs above ground and everywhere there is large square "U" expansion sections in them. Last I heard they were going to use thermal twilight imaging for landmines from a helicopter (unit about 120 lbs) as mines absorb and radiate heat differently than the soils around them. Wonder how that went?

Wooden "shiplap" on the water

Why "Edge-rabbeting of bottom planking" called in New World "shiplap"? (sub-arch Underwater Archaeology forum) The "shiplap" I know was used in a church in Centereach/Lake Grove, NY now a Town of Brookhaven Landmark, near the "Good Steer" restaurant. Once known as "New Village" it was settled by shipbuilders et al of nearby Setauket, NY. The floors are "shiplap" constructed, and some of the wallpaper removal revealed some of the early carpenter's pencil markings. In Setauket about 25,000 tons of wooden ships were made and in the adjoining harbor, Port Jefferson (once also known as "Drowned Meadow") about 45,000 tons were made as the focus shifted apparently in the 19th century. Liverpool mail "packets" (sailing ships mostly started and run by Quakers there and in New York City) put in there every two weeks in the 19th century and the port of New York. The "infamous" luxury yacht "Wanderer" was built there, bought by a Louisiana cotton merchant, and conducted slave trade between Africa and Jekyll Island, Georgia after being thought harmless by British blockaders of Africa for slavery (1858 Wikipedia). The National Parks Service (?) plaque at Jekyll Island was placed around 1963, next to a large iron pot, where the survivors were first fed. A written argument went on about its place of building, wrongly attributed to Port Jefferson at first, actually bult by Captain Brewster Hawkins in Setauket, and a historic site I've partly investigated archaeologically (written correspondence available in the collections of the Emma Clark Library, Setauket, NY). An ascendant (or indirect descendant) proved it to the historians. The confusion was over the construction and concealment of large water tanks placed behind the luxury accommodations in Port Jefferson, NY by metalworkers there. Maybe it was used in old church construction first? Often churches look like inverted ships. George Myers "I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at in the right way, did not become still more complicated." Poul Anderson

The Insistence of the Letter in the Unconscious

George J. Myers, Jr., BA.
Bronx, NY
718-792-5772

June 5, 2004

Institute for Long Island Archaeology/Anthropology David J. Bernstein, Director IUA

RE: Research REF#: WC-R-1482-03-09-C2 Technician I - Archaeology

Hello. I had field school in Long Island Archaeology taught by R.M. Gramly, Ph.D., of 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 later became the first NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission Archaeologist, now at Cornell University. Since, I have been employed assisting and working with archaeologists in private, public and even in gainful employ.

I have worked on the objectives of archaeology in "cultural resource management" and the possibilities for creative scientific research, though often being relegated to the repetitive manual labor of "tasks completed" instead of research identified and corroborated and/or proposed. I think the safety of work has been overlooked where information about sites is not thoroughly researched along the lines of a "title search" in property records to determine the past uses of a property. An employees' "right to know" should extend into the past workplaces from workplace rules. Whether a site was or is full of lead paint (Chicago Bridge and Steel Co., in the 19th c. West Point Foundry, Cold Spring, NY) or contains "depleted uranium" (from ammo on the A-10 target range at Fort Drum, NY) we should want to know, and the serendipitous finding of illegal dumping should also be treated in a safe manner.

Conversely, it is important that archaeology provide the ecology of a place which may include the recognition of endangered resources that may not be archaeological found in the course of research. For example, next to a National Register nominated schoolhouse site in Farmingville, a nesting pair of hawks were reported to an agency by one crew member, not directly to the owner. That event cannot be regulated, coming from the resident of a place, though may be attributed to archaeologists, who may be from outside a locality, as many of the jobs are done today.

I would like to express that the monitoring of excavations needs to be implemented as often construction plans are changed or finalized and impacts may have unintended consequence and are then in different locations. I feel that would cover the law, where trenches and excavations are concerned, as archaeological testing often only reaches shallow depths, as do other tests, ("percolation tests" for drainage whose formula leads to the excavation of recharge basins or "sumps") and should perhaps be integrated into the planning process.

Sincerely,
George J. Myers, Jr

Elephant jokes

An elephant and an crocodile are walking along in a swamp when they come upon a turtle. The elephant grabs the turtle with his trunk and heaves him way into the jungle. The alligator asks, "Why did you do that?" The elephant says, "That's the turtle that bit me 50 years ago." The crocodile says, "Wow, you have some memory!" The elephant says, "Yes, I have turtle recall." - heard on Cyberbuddy. This guy is hunting in Africa. And he sees an elephant with a thorn in its foot, lying on the ground. He takes aim. And then he thinks, "hmm... maybe I should save it. It would be cruel to shoot a wounded animal." So he walks slowly over, and pulls out the thorn. The elephant starts to limp away, and then it turns and stares at him, locking eyes for a full minute. It then walks away into the jungle. The guy thinks "wow, I wonder if that elephant will remember me. I wonder if I'll ever see it again." So, twenty years later he's at a circus in the US. And he sees a circus elephant looking at him. It's older, but it's a similar looking elephant. Anyway, so this elephant keeps looking at him, and making eye contact "could this be it?" he thinks. "could this be the same elephant, and does it remember me?" So he sits there looking at the elephant perform, and the elephant keeps giving him these knowing looks. Finally, the circus is over, and he goes down to where the elephant is. The elephant looks deep into his eyes, and he thinks "wow, this could really be the same elephant!" so he walks slowly up to the elephant, looking in its eyes. And the elephant reaches out with its trunk and slowly picks the man up... and then it throws him to the concrete floor and tramples him to death. You see, it turns out it wasn't the same elephant. (from #notmath on efnet) posted at neowin.net A future DJ told me this one (he was once on 3 AM Sunday mornings after "Lesbian Hour" at Buffalo University in New York, Mark Henning from the "rust belt") Teacher: "Can anyone tell me who wrote the "Critique of Pure Reason"? No one answers. "How about you Johnny?" "I can't," says Johnny, "You're right!" says the teacher. (ca. 1974 when demos came on 45's (33 rpm) One labeled "Guess Who?" became... Get it...)

Posted to Historical Archaeology

Quonset Huts Also, it solves a paradox for me, somewhat meeting a carpenter who built Quonset huts in Alaska. We had one in Centereach where the VFW and other groups met (Boy Scouts of America, etc.) next to the two room schoolhouse. It seemed the logical structure for the problem. I miss it sometimes. Parades ended there for corn-on-the-cob. Eh...VFW is Veterans of Foreign Wars in the United States an organization which is being filled perhaps sadly by many National Guard troops in Afghanistan and Iraq ("Hundreds of Guard members from New Hampshire spent 2004 at war" - 12/31/04 - Portsmouth Herald, where John Paul Jones was once wanted for "rape" and Strawberry Bancke is the historic now dryland seaport). The quonset went after the paint stored in it combusted and the schoolhouse (the second the first once a one room is still sort of there across the street at home) was burned in a volunteer fire squad practice it's said. Another structure, where First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt visited, the "Old Tea Room" (a place of consolation and emergency charity) also burned, next to the former small brick courthouse made from dug clay from across the Middle Country Road in Coram, NY. My brother and friends once lived there. During the American Revolution a large stockpile of hay gathered by the British Army burned there.