Some archaeology

Wonkette, Politics for People with Dirty Minds: Sheryl Crow says the Bushes want to control oil-producing countries: "Now, if we pull out [of Iraq] we are going to leave a complete and total mess. We don't even know who we're fighting over there." [NYDN] I hope its not like the Hunts, who almost took over the whole silver business. Those matches too, Hunts, tomatos, before the matchbook striker was put on the back, used to stick to your fingers and I once had a whole book go up on a street in Woodstock, NY. Owww!

Warning: large parenthetical ahead!

I worked with an archaeologist from Texas, Bill Crow, a former Vietnam "Huey" chopper pilot, (the helicopter was actually called an "Iroquois" in production , but "politically correct" I guess troops altered its model letters into "Huey". Coincidentally the current archaeologist in Albany, Paul Huey, for many years has worked in the early history of New York State in mostly historical archaeology, who was almost unceremoniously dumped out by the current administration, but protest prevailed. There was this site in Albany, NY "Beaverwick", that was being trashed by the NY Dormitory Authority (a building arm of the state) that an ambassador of Holland wrote to New York about, asking "what are you doing with our history?" a few years just before 9/11/01. The Governor, George Pataki, and a US Presidential candidate, from the Bear Mountain Parkway Farmstand in Peekskill, also its former Mayor, was away in Hungary researching his family roots and Catholic "orthodoxy" and was not available. A judge found in favor of the archaeologists and a fairly substantial amount of money was awarded to the local chapter of the NY State Archaeological Association, which has chapters around New York State. One, across from the Custer Institute, an astronomical observatory (a college minor of mine) in Southold out on the North Fork of Long Island, was left endowed with "company stock" and even has its own small building to house the collections of artifacts, often found in the farmlands of eastern Long Island. There is also an armored tank museum there.) and Anthony Tripp, Ph.D., a paleo-sedimentologist from Texas A&M at the Cold Spring, NY "Marathon Battery EPA National Priority Superfund" clean-up site, (batteries for Nikes) and also there with Gordon Watts of Tidewater Research in North Carolina who first located the "USS Monitor" wreck in a NC State survey off the coast of Cape Hatteras, where my grandfather's brother, captain of the ship passenger and freighter the "S.S. City of Atlanta" lies after torpedoed by "U-123" in the early weeks of the "Battle of the Atlantic" in WWII. I wonder if Sheryl and Bill know each other? Heh, Tony thanks for the 2nd Ave Deli trip, its been torn down!