A War Too Far: General Revolt

George Myers | 2/28/2007, 11:29 am EST

Before “Top Gun” we sold 80 F-14 Tomcats to Iran. 4000 Grumman employees (like Apollo 13) were in a compound for the Shah training them, but the students, who said to Kissinger they were being spied on by Savak while going to school in the US, which he said there was nothing he could do about, revolted before that I think could become 100 Tomcats. I was in the test pilots house for his birthday when it was announced that if the USSR made a move for the Iran border during the crisis the US would obliterate all Tomcats. I think they said it was over the air-to-air missiles, an expensive secret technology, the Tomcat truly a WMD, a fighter-bomber, it can acquire and deal with up to six targets at a time. It also had some problems and could fall out of the sky without another one being nearby I saw on Albany TV, footage presented by reporter Mr. Holbrook and subsequently Langley I think has made mods.

Source: "A War Too Far: General Revolt" in Rolling Stone "National Affairs Daily" ed. Tim Dickenson

First Lady - Elayne Boosler at Huffington Post

Comment: Robert Gardiner the heir of Gardiner's Island out on the east end of Long Island said his great-aunt, First Lady Julia Gardiner, President John Tyler's ("elected Vice President and became the 10th President of the United States when Harrison died 1790-1862") second-wife was strong advocate for the admission of Texas to the Union, her father the US Senator from New York. They met when the "Peacemaker" a prototype "super cannon" exploded on the deck of the USS Princeton saluting George Washington's Mount Vernon above the Potomac River, knocking them both down below deck where they were having a glass of champagne. A number of people were killed including her father and members of the Cabinet. The cannon was made in Manhattan in New York City by a large English foundry, Haddersley I think whom he said rode around in carriages affecting royalty. It's been said she was the "prettiest First Lady" as that goes. When ex-President Tyler died in charge of Confederate Richmond, Virginia during the Civil War, (they had lived on his plantation in the Tidewater area of the James River, she had a vision of his passing riding all night to be at his side) her entourage in mourning was allowed to cross the siege and defense lines in ceasefire in respect of the First Lady traveling back to NYC. She was after scandalously involved in a large Manhattan real estate "last will" case, as up to that time, uncontested and became so after challengeable he said. I see somewhere she lived on later on Staten Island in NYC. A famous case, Mr Gardiner, in law school used to fib about it being about his family he related. He served on the "U.S. Princeton" in naval intelligence in WWII and used to rub elbows with the rich and famous. He said Gloria Swanson thought it would take a Vivian Leigh to portray her.

Source: First Lady Elayne Boosler at Huffington Post

Who Am I?

Happy birthday! Well I'm sure we've both had a couple since Cadillac Mountain in Bar Harbor, Maine, fogged in as it were. I once spent another summer like fogbound for 29 days in 1967, on Grand Manan Island, part of a cultural archipelago that includes Deer Island and FDR's beloved Campobello Island, New Brunswick, the only "officially bilingual province". The French speakers are mostly up north on Gaspé and along the St. Lawrence River, John and I visited back in 1971 along there in a made over used Telco van into a "Starship" they painted on the front. About that Draft. As you recall we all had numbers way up there, and "fortunately" an other he and I split a tab of the "bad brown acid" going around the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival in 1969, so he had an excuse of "flashbacks" he told me from a doctor or he probably would have gone? I don't know I stayed 1A technically myself waiting for the number to be called and then to decide if I was to take up residence among relatives where my grandfather came from in Canada. In 1968 I worked in a Jewish camp washing dishes at Timber Lake so I espied Jimi Hendrix in a sidewalk café in Woodstock, NY where we used to go on our days off, unless it was with the 6' 6" black camp basketball star from Roosevelt, Jeffrey who cleaned the toilets and carted the Central Park horse manure, then time off with him was a trip to Harlem and out to Roosevelt to rediscover my South Bronx roots, having lived there from 1954 or so to 1960 in the Patterson Houses projects nearby the then busiest firehouse in the City, and attending its poorest Catholic parish, St. Rita's on College Ave. for $1 a month. Any way, the numbers as I recall went 1-150 then 1-100 (then I was out, but had already returned from Canada anyway) and then 1-50, then none for the Draft. Ironic isn't it (or wasn't it) we had the first JROTC Marine Corps in the country in Newfield HS in Selden, a town named after a judge who testified on behalf of Susan B. Anthony when she posed as a man to vote in Upstate New York, according to the "local history" published since I've read, in what thanks to principal Mr. Lacina's impetus, became one of the top 50 school library systems in the US. The circa 1970 Army JROTC was in what turned out to be Paul McCartney's American manager's town in Connecticut, the other two branches out on the "Left Coast" in California, I found writing a letter back then, connected somewhat with Smithaven Ministries which was giving draft advisement in the Smithaven Mall. PBS's "Defense Monitor" show asked back after the first "desert karma" about 1991 whether the $1 billion a year spent in 20,000 mostly poor school districts was worth it, before they went off the air, watching the Pentagon. Any women in it? I don't know "Brooklyn Bridge" and others lived nearby, JROTC and rock 'n roll? There weren't that I recall, do you recall any women in it? I should have made an outline, I've probably forgotten now why I was writing you. The big house 12 room house we had in Seal Cove, Grand Manan Island we had torn down next to the Provincial school it was too large to repair and they wanted it painted and the foundation was cracked and the big box twisted in the wind. It might have been an earlier landmark but never inquired. The former sardine factory closed and is for sale, only about 15 years old owned by Bumble Bee now. Anyway it seems more Mexican-Americans and Chicanos were becoming victims in Vietnam along with the disproportionate number of black African-Americans in the conflict. President Nixon asked Jewish "rat pack" star Sammy Davis, Jr. to go over there on a fact finding mission to show you some of the perhaps whacko politics we once had on our brains. (Source of Hispanic report: 1st issue of "Lowrider" magazine, about the cars in the mid 1970s, the founding editor describes how someone snuck into the military industrial complex and "liberated" the Hispanic statistics which were put on placard signs shown in a photo of the demonstrations out there, disproportionate casualties). Reminds me more recently like (the k key is right next to the l key) the about 50/50 signs for and against Bush, the against moved up the street out of the President's view and away from his cheering gallery I bussed into the middle of outside St. Patrick's Cathedral a few years ago when President Bush visited the new Bishop? I was picking up PCB cleanup maps for research in Waterford, NY the following day at the Office of Parks Recreation and Historic Preservation on Peebles Island in a former Arrow shirt factory. A woman archaeologist I know of excavated Pierre Toussants remains, a "former slave born in Saint-Dominique now called Haiti" from the old St. Patrick's graveyard known for his charitable works [I worked in the "First Almshouse" burials found in City Hall Park in 1999 next to Horace Greeley's statue] now in the crypt under the altar there with Cardinal O'Connor's). Well its winter and believe it or not I've had many digging jobs during winter in the past sometimes under the shelter of greenhouse (also the name of one of the companies, Barry Greenhouse who lives in Atlanta, Georgia, originally from Brooklyn). My colleague Nancy, she's the one with the M.S. from RPI in Public Archaeology, was just out at a sewerage treatment plant in Queens today backhoe testing whether the ground there was landfill or not for Earth Tech a division of TYCO, Inc. The Landmarks Commission requires that a "Register of Professional Archaeologists" be onsite in NYC setting standards that are actually required by law now in the state of Mississippi, which has quite a bit of archaeological history and prehistory in it. I worked there in 1979 and in Alaska in 1980 Greyhound through Mt. St. Helens ash. I can't recall the statistics, I used to 1/2 hour lunch across the street in the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Park in Lower Manhattan digging in what was once the Livingston and Captain Kidd properties many years ago for archaeologist, but it seems that if the National Guard, once referred to the units that protected the new US government which met in NYC (and again recently after 9/11 it met) and over 10 years in Vietnam roughly 7,000 National Guard were ever there, that they today are disproportionately called upon, when technically, if you see my point they are State Militias that are supposed to be guarding their respective states, more than just a semantics issue. I've had to study them in the Bowery, site of former graveyards also, white and black. George "gone Gonzo" Myers again.

Katie Couric's Notebook: Sad Friday - Couric & Co.

I last visited N.O. in 1979 during a summer hurricane that fizzled. I was working on the archeology of Tenn-Tombigbee Canal in Tennessee Williams hometown of Columbus, Mississippi, which the Congress chose over an "energy island" for NYC, connecting the Ohio-Tenn. river system with Mobile, Alabama, said to be the site of the Nation's oldest Mardi Gras parade.

I wanted to say there have been many warnings prior to the Katrina event to the Army Corps of Engineers, which I worked for a number of times, which organizationally should also be reformed, Kansas City has jurisdiction over some projects in the Northeast, while nearby headquarters are in Fort Hamilton, NYC. In industrial archeology we see the pumps over 100 years old that the city has to rely on, in case of flood, the troops with M-16s and battle gear when food was finally handed out to children and recall that a lot of money was spent to have a canal through Mississippi that maybe should have been spent on maintaining the levees and spent on new pumps for New Orleans, which could have been announced before the Russians flew their three aid planes into the city.

Source: Katie Couric's Notebook: Sad Friday - Couric & Co.

New Zealand, Canada take different paths in aboriginal treaty claims

Interesting, on Long Island in New York State we have a court case on behalf of the Shinnecock native Americans that properties were seized in 1859 illegally from them to build roads and other areas that today encompass some of the most expensive real estate on Long Island, i.e., Southampton, NY the oldest incorporated town in New York State. Southampton College there is now part of Stony Brook University and opening again. Stony Brook also has a small campus in Manhattan. I hope something will work out. I worked with a former Southampton College student, one of its radio DJs, who worked summers with one of the heritable chiefs of the Shinnecock in a landscaping business on some of the big estates out there. Another coworker, our office secretary's husband,  was a composer and music professor at the college Mr. Gary Washington. She went on to work in the Peconic Land Trust. 

Source: cananda.com "Where perspectives connect"  "New Zealand, Canada take different paths in aboriginal treaty claims"

The City Hall Park Project - this just in

The City Hall Park Project from Archaeology A publication of the Archaeological Institute of America
February 12, 2007
by H. Arthur Bankoff and Alyssa Loorya
Excavations in the late 1990s revealed evidence from New York's formative years.

Ka-CHING! - Mark Knoller posted Couric & Co.

An interesting choice of "timeline" in presidential economics is this interview. Starting with Mr. Clinton's successor, President George W. Bush, presidential salaries doubled to $400,000 (from $200,000) I read, so in two years, President Bush earned what former President Clinton earned in a whole four year term. Of course Mr. Bush's penchant for spending time in Crawford, Texas on a former German's turkey farm (singer Joe Cocker actually raises cows on his in Crawford, Colorado) he bought from the money he made in baseball while Governor of Texas makes his deal even sweeter.

Posted by georgejmyers at 10:16 AM : Feb 25, 2007

Is this the Beatles without the Specter's "wall of sound" and the pistol on mixer?

I was just listening to WFUV last week David Bromberg I think was playing live from there the Bennet studios. He's some guitar player, I first heard of him in Buffalo, NY with some Philly Folk Festival fans and an ex-Yippie. Theye were Grateful Dead fans too and we got to see them again at the Watkins Glen Music Festival with the Allman Brothers and the The Band. Thanks, is this the remade "digital" Beatles I've heard about? Yoko Ono's "Walking on Thin Ice" is free over at Rolling Stone #1 to listen into on Rhapsody. I used to listen to them with John and Terry on the 45rpm "Attica State" in Patchogue years ago, where the LI Music Hall of Fame is held. >>>http://www.bennettstudios.com/mysterytracks/ A studio in NJ did these tracks. David Bromberg promo from Bennett Studies on WFUV recently..."Try Me One More Time" (worked w/ the free VLC player).When I was at the university in Buffalo, NY 1973-1975 I was in a smaller "college" of residential education in the "Visual and Performing Arts" of which there were other colleges (history "Vico College", math, nursing, women's studies, radical thought, etc.) that were to be anchored in the new campus just opening in Amherst, NY once touted as America's safest place to live. At the time there was also a subway proposed, since built, that was to connect to the North Campus, and New York State's Law School, however, that subway extension wasn't built out to the filled swamp built using a construction method used in Mexico City, on deep pilings, used in lower Manhattan too, driven by steam pile drivers. As the "initial occupency" many of the students were stranded without connection to the local mall and stores without vehicles, most of the buses ran to the "Main Campus" on Main Street in Buffalo, a division that's still apparent there over 1 million residents in the suburb and 1 million in the city. I once studied a "West Side Highway" proposed there for Applied Anthropology, which the subway was seen as the alternative to. The first dorm, the "Governors Residence" named after the four quads named for former governors of New York State, was built by the famous architectural firm I.M. Pei, an important Chinese-American. Classes "in residence" (later the now dissolved classic "Cleveland Quartet" would live in residence) run by the college, College B, one of the first there in residential education, and overseen by R. Oliver Gibson, Ph.D., a Nova Scotian, and chairperson of Educational Administration, future administrators of schools, would use the dorm lounge spaces to hold seminars and faculty would visit to hold classes. At first started on the Main Street campus in the Schoelkopf dorm, one class for example was a historian discussing his research and soon to be published book, "Sex in the White House" a history of how it has or had been presented in the press and by the various occupants of the White House. Later Eric Bentley, who taught theater for many years at Columbia University and a translator of Bertolt Brecht's plays and author of "Life of the Drama" might speak in a "Seminar in the Arts". Or the Buffalo Philharmonic tympani player, or an architect, etc. One held by writer and critic Leslie Fiedler required I critique an article about the Rolling Stones made film, "Altamont" about the free concert held in California that resulted in the death of a youth beaten I heard recently with cue sticks when he apparently was thought to have pulled a pistol to fire at the Rolling Stones perfoming onstage. The "Hells Angels" had been hired to handle concert security. I think it was in Collected Essays of Leslie Fiedler (1972) maybe. George Lucas worked as a camera operator on "Gimme Shelter". Martin Scorcese worked on "Woodstock". Another satellite of the college was the "Oakstone Farm" run by a Stanford University philosophy graduate, Jonathan Ketchum, where students worked as "barter" for room and board and studied philosophy such as phenomenology. I think he was over some administration snafu was suing the university over "academic freedom" when it said he could not teach without the credentials which someone at Stanford University mis-mailed. Another satellite of "College B" was the "American Contemporary Theater" (A.C.T.) run by Joseph Dunne and his wife, held experimental theater performances in Buffalo, NY. I recall T.S. Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral" set in one performed in one there. It was all on hold as the new campus was years behind in opening due to many problems of labor, funding and construction. The Law School opened a couple of weeks after the semester started for example as the things like granite curbs had to be installed and the road paved. The huge facility Ellicott Complex, designed by Davis, Brody and now Young, is a series of buildings all connected on a second story terrace, where buses ran under it and other shops are at ground level. It was thought the space could be used without having to leave it for vehicular transportation to classes. I hope it worked out for the better I almost stepped into a fifth floor elevator shaft when it stopped ascending to the eighth floor for whatever reason, a floor I ended up on. It also snowed 23" in 24 hours. The point was they had a few times a "Magical Mystery Tour" on Saturday, rent a school bus pay a fee and they would surprize the students with a destination, i.e., the Ontario Science Center and dining in Chinatown in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

"Yes. Hillary." Elayne Boosler

After the historical "screw-up" of Japan-U.S. relations, that is according to recent research, the person who was to transcribe an intent of war that was to be answered and perhaps negotiated before Dec. 7, 1941, had been stuck at a Christian eulogy on a very unusually hot December day that went on for hours (Mainichi Daily News?) and the Congress decided to almost unanimously declare war, which was followed shortly by Germany's declaration of war on the U.S. One lone voice in the Senate, some researchers dug up a recording of her speech, warned that a "gut reaction" to events of the day could have unintended consequences without knowing the whole story. I think now it was Hattie Wyatt Caraway of Arkansas who served in the Senate from 1931-1945, a Democrat.

I heard this on the radio back in 1989 or so outside the former NIKE anti-missile nickel-cadmium battery factory, then a school new book repository, being evaluated in a National Priority EPA Superfund clean-up in Cold Spring, New York, across the Hudson River from the West Point Military Academy and its other holding nearby, Constitution Island. It was once the location of the West Point Foundry where many of the cannons and also other material was made, partially by smuggled iron-working expertise in the Civil War whom I'm sure were never asked if they were "gay" or thought their wives' sex-lives "lesbian" when they were given aliases to circumvent the law of the land in Great Britain, which held those involved in national security its "captives" and brought to Cold Spring.

Scientist urges exploration of Europa - Science

Scientist urges exploration of Europa

George Myers Feb 24th, 2007 - 20:29:05

I think that's 'planets' not 'plants' though it is the 300th anniversary of the birth of Linnaeus (The Swedish Linnaeus Society museum is preparing for the anniversary and will open May 1, 2007). Maybe plankton life is found there.

Source: Scientist urges exploration of Europa - Science

Reading a Google scanned copy from Harvard College Library, Lamont Library (1949)

White-Jacket is a novel by Herman Melville, first published in 1850. Subtitled The World in a Man of War, it is a fictionalized account of his time as a sailor on the USS United States from 1843 to 1844. The novel is highly critical of the captain of the United States and of naval customs in general. The mixture of journalism and fiction, the presentation of a sequence of striking characters, the metaphor of a sailing ship as the world in miniature, all prefigure his next novel Moby-Dick, published in 1851. Characters include Jack Chase and Captain Claret. Additionally, Melville's publisher placed a copy of "White-Jacket" on every desk in Congress, sending a clear message that this book is very politically outspoken and champions various causes. Melville's work directly influenced the decision made by Congress to ban flogging in the navy.

Source: White Jacket - encyclopedia article about White Jacket.

Should we send copies to Congress? No flogging without representation.

Archaeology for the Public - From the Society for American Archaeology

Society for American Archaeology: July 19, 2006: Society for American Archaeology launches Archaeology for the Public Web Pages The Society for American Archaeology (SAA), with the assistance of a grant from the U.S. Dept of Interior Bureau of Reclamation (BOR), has created a set of web pages on "Archaeology for the Public".

Renowned Iraqi Scholar, Dr. Donny George Youkhanna, Appointed to Faculty at Stony Brook

Stony Brook University: President Shirley Strum Kenny appointed Iraqi Dr. Donny George Youkhanna as visiting professor in the renowned Anthropology department, providing a refuge for him from the ravaging war in his home country. Dr. George was the Director General of the National Museum in Baghdad, for which he is internationally known for recovering thousands of priceless relics...

Source: The Graduate Review - The Newsletter of the Stony Brook University Graduate School

Gee...just before the rumored Writers Guild of America strike? Baseball is a "not monopoly"?

General University News

Frank McCourt, Marsha Norman, Billy Collins And Others To Be At Stony Brook Southampton Writers Conference

A LI Institution for 32 Years, Conference Begins July 18

STONY BROOK, N.Y., January 24, 2007 Authors Frank McCourt, Billy Collins, Marsha Norman. Roger Rosenblatt, Amy Tan, E.L. Doctorow, Garry Trudeau, Melissa Bank, Jules Feiffer, Carol Muske-Dukes, Ursula Hegi, David Rakoff, Meg Wolitzer, and Matt Klam are among the distinguished guests scheduled to appear at the Stony Brook Southampton Writers Conference. The conference, presented by Stony Brook University, is one of the most important annual gatherings of writers in the country and a highlight of the summer season...

...The conference, which Tom Wolfe called “the best in the country,” continues to offer inspiration and guidance to new writers, established writers, teachers of writing, editors, as well as avid readers...

Source: Frank McCourt, Marsha Norman, Billy Collins And Others To Be At Stony Brook Southampton Writers Conference

"A Bill Arrives In The Mail"

As someone employed in federal, state, local and other "public" archaeology for the last yikes near 30 years, one thing that has always remained in the forefront of preservation and archaeology has been the State of Arkansas, which has helped set standards for others where they have been lacking. As the former governor and President from Arkansas and now also a New Yorker, he is only the second President to have addressed the New-York Historical Society, just a few months, unfortunately, before 9/11/01. His talk there gave me some solace after that tragic day and as he has been active in New York (friends of the Dakota, where the Lennon's and the Guthrie's live) and a resident with New York's Senator Hillary Clinton (named by her Mom after the famous New Zealand explorer Edmund Hillary who once spoke to my 3rd grade class) he is fortunately still here with his office in Harlem and his many friends and admirers, thanks to surgery at a Manhattan hospital it's once future site I visited when some archaeological materials were found in the excavation.

Horace Greeley also a resident of Chappaqua, a New Hampshire native and New York publisher, and once also a Presidential candidate, said "Go west young man and grow up with the country". His statue I watched cleaned in City Hall Park excavating the burials of the "First Almshouse" there in NYC in 1999, and I think he would have laughed when the former Mayor Giuliani had the flag of Arkansas flown over City Hall while visiting in Arkansas.

Source: "A Bill Arrives In The Mail" Couric & Co

We Need a Federal Journalist-Source Privilege NOW

Comment on Geoffrey R. Stone "We Need a Federal Journalist-Source Privilege NOW" article in Huffington Post 02.21.2007

It would be important in other cases as well. In the Supreme Court case of "California's motion for leave to file a bill of complaint seeking determination of whether Howard Hughes was domiciled in California or Texas at the time of his death is granted." For example, a former domicile and charges against a sitting President, for a hypothetical capital case against him (or her), would protect the source and journalist from the most powerful person in the world, a sitting US President, a protection that would then therefore be guaranteed by the "law of the land".

It might also protect the press and its sources when it asserts, as an example, that one "George W. Bush" was tried and convicted of "practicing medicine without a license" in a drug charge in Texas, when found later that the defendant was six months younger than the current President and similar in name only (?).

Transfusion-associated transmission of babesiosis in New York State

J.V Linden, S.J Wong, F.K Chu, G.B Schmidt, C Bianco (2000) Transfusion-associated transmission of babesiosis in New York State Transfusion 40 (3), 285–289. doi:10.1046/j.1537-2995.2000.40030285.x

Notebook: Foreign Report - Couric & Co.

Notebook: Foreign Report Posted by Katie Couric

In the past "foreign" journalism by major networks could run into a lot of trouble (see "Inquest told journos 'deserved to die'") and admire the risks they've taken, for example as Edwin Newman explained by reciting a letter NBC news producer George Murray had to write to journalists in South Vietnam getting the US soldiers view of the conflict (embedded?), canceled by "higher-ups". He read this letter in the UN Chapel at Mr. Murray's eulogy, who starting out in the US Army Signal Corps in film editing became a director of "Huntley and Brinkley" in the early days of 15 minute news casts. I heard he produced CBS's coverage of the US 1976 Bicentennial duopoly's conventions (Dimmiecats and Rupublicrats) last before he died in Mexico. Later General Westmoreland would sue the NBC network for millions over a news retrospective of the "Vietnam debacle" and settle for an undisclosed amount.

When they gave out the journalism awards this year I was a little upset, though excellence was rewarded, I have the same surname as a famous "muckraker" Gustavus Myers, there was no mention of the over 60 journalists who have perished in Iraq I think last year trying to report from that war torn land, once bombed from the middle of the Indian Ocean, from Diego Garcia a "joint" US/UK military facility visited by Alex Trubek of "Jeopardy".

Source: Notebook: Foreign Report - Couric & Co.

Giant crane cleared to lift at sea

"The derrick will be used to recover a sunken vessel from the Song Dynasty (960-1127) in the South China Sea, before it possibly being employed to help explore marine oil fields." Source: Underwater archaeology forum "sub-arch" cited from, Wang Ye, Shanghai & Delta, p. 01, 2006-11-24.

Back in the late 1970s I read of a similar ship investigated by the Chinese in one of the delta deposits which was exciting as it contained preserved spices that might be traced to various parts of the Pacific. At about the same time.in the early 1980s, Stony Brook University hosted an international archaeology meeting with China on behalf of the then Dept. of Energy run Brookhaven National Lab nearby where archaeology chemist Emeritus Garman Harbottle worked in his lab. C.N. Yang a Nobel prize winning physicist from Beijing (though then still "Peking" like the German built steel square rigger in NYC South Street Seaport Museum) translated on the spot to the gathered audience during the lecture of the history of Chinese bronze vessels, the tripod vessels referred to as "cooking vessels".

Recently I have been reading that the Chinese have developed the deepest diving vessels in the world and now can dive to 99% of the ocean's depth according to the "People's Daily" so I imagine perhaps this type of excavation and display might be important to show they are becoming leading researchers in planetary exploration, both above and below the ocean.

Sourrce: China Daily

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | E Timor truth commission begins

"E Timor truth commission begins" (listening to Ginger Baker Trio "Going Back Home" [1994] last track: "East Timor") What the song apparently refers to: Inquest told journos 'deserved to die' (in "The West Australian" 19th February 2007, 11:00 WST). As an undergrad at Stony Brook University I studied anthropology which in part was taught by David Hicks who did his fieldwork there among the Tetum for Oxford University I think and wrote a social anthropology book, "Tetum Ghosts and Kin".

Source: BBC NEWS Asia-Pacific E Timor truth commission begins

Gmail - National Park Service's 2007 archeological prospection workshop

Colleague

I would like to inform you of the upcoming National Park Service archeological prospection workshop to be held May 14-18, 2007, at the HAMMER Training Facility, Richland, Washington. The workshop is open to all archeologists and students as well as those interested in forensic studies and cemetery investigations. Please pass this information on to your students, faculty, and staff.

See the following announcement for details:

National Park Service’s 2007 Archaeological Prospection Workshop

The National Park Service’s 2007 workshop on archaeological prospection techniques entitled Current Archaeological Prospection Advances for Non-Destructive Investigations in the 21st Century will be held May 14-18, 2007, at the HAMMER Training Center, Richland, Washington. Lodging will be at the Guest House, Richland, Washington. This will be the seventeenth year of the workshop dedicated to the use of geophysical, aerial photography, and other remote sensing methods as they apply to the identification, evaluation, conservation, and protection of archaeological resources across this Nation.

The workshop this year will focus on the theory of operation, methodology, processing, interpretation, and on-hands use of the equipment in the field. There is a tuition charge of 475.00. Application forms are available on the Midwest Archeological Center’s web page at http://www.cr.nps.gov/mwac/>. For further information, please contact

Steven L. DeVore, Archeologist, National Park Service, Midwest Archeological Center, Federal Building, Room 474, 100 Centennial Mall North, Lincoln, Nebraska 68508-3873: tel: (402) 437-5392, ext. 141; fax: (402) 437-5098; email: <steve_de_vore@nps.gov>. ___________________________________________ It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "Scandal in Bohemia")

Scotsman.com News - UK - Families gather to honour pardoned soldiers

As the grandson of Lawrence Urquhart who served in the Canadian Scottish Highlanders (ed. - The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada) in WWI, gassed in the trenches, and perhaps maybe the youngest Canadian in it, (ed. - no "The Regiment's first casualty in the Great War was Private Gordon Betts. He was accidentally killed on 14 August, 1914 while on sentry duty at the Soulanges Canal. Private Betts was 14 years old.") from Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, the only officially bilingual province in Canada, I thought and think this is a good idea. When we look back at the origins of neuro-science we see the doctors (Freud, et al) involved in these very problems brought about by war neuroses and I dare say, as shown on the "telly" the rise of Adolf Hitler.

In America we executed as many as thirty of our own in the War of 1812 at Sacketts Harbor on Lake Ontario in New York (not the whole New York regiment who refused to invade Canada however) for infractions as slight as falling asleep on guard duty, and our system of military justice has evolved into a universal one for all the services. However, the mental screening of suitable soldiers was and may still be based on a cross-section of mostly Minnesota agriculturalists, that needs to be adjusted for the mostly now urban population centers, which some argue, depending on conditions, lead to more "neuroses". A study of a Manhattan block using a battery of tests was once funded and so concluded.

Source: Scotsman.com News - UK - Families gather to honour pardoned soldiers

Elayne Boosler: Take Your Hand Off the Bible - Huffington Post

Thanks for defending us. They have some bragging rights ("Good, Better, Best, Never Let It Rest, Until Your Good is Better, and Your Better is Your Best" motto on some of the water tanks Down-under, could be god for good) having invented a cheap addition to radar that bankrupts all our "stealth" technology claims, able to spot any invading American planes, for years now. I'm surprised they haven't held America for ransom for "One billion dollars." - Dr. Evil

Alec Baldwin: "Sending the Wrong Signal" - Huffington Post

The war on terror unfortunately calls to mind from the President some thwarted plot on his "daddy". To me it is a question of arms control, stingers, mortars, RPGs (some reported missing from our own National Guard Armory in the Bronx, in NYC), etc., having dug many shovel tests at Fort Drum before permanent occupation, before, beavers had run of the place with 10's of thousands of acres of fenced off firing range. One of the Napoleon's (III?) was once rumored to have once to have lived there, not LeRaysville, but near Lake Bonaparte at Alpina. Anyway, over the years the Explosive Ordnance Division has recovered "stuff" from barracks that troops thought once to bring home but had decided against. So, when I was searched for anthrax, etc., during that panic at West Point Academy's gates, where again I was digging many archaeology shovel holes because of hurricane damage to the woods and other plans, I also heard from the Japanese media, at the Pointers Echo Motel (removed for a Sunday football game preregistered) that basically the international forces were going into Afghanistan to cleanup what the Russians had to leave behind, i.e., the clearing and repair of damaged airports for a country bankrupted by a corrupt treasurer thrown into chaos. I thought that's a good idea, listening as we did to it described as "Russia's Vietnam". However, I still feel we've ignored our other commitments to people in New Jersey, New York and the USA over tragedies of hurricane, skyjacking, jet crashes, anthrax release, subsequent results, that as a short-term poor subcontractor's employee for the government (Fort Hamilton, Gateway National, West Point M.A., Picatinney Arsenal, and in formerly flooded New Jersey in historic Bridgewater) since those events, feel totally opposed to the President's "commitment" to Iraq, a legacy visited on him from his father's term, when we, were those that incited a revolution there. What will we incite here I wonder and observe as letters shut Johnson and Johnson wound treatment business, and other hushed up perhaps places?

Bald Hill Vietnam Memorial Park, Farmingville NY - Long Island's Highest Point

Bald Hill Vietnam Memorial Park, Farmingville NY - Long Island's Highest Point. A Microsoft Virtual Earth view (was "Vietnam War Memorial, Bicycle Hill, Selden, NY"). Photo here. It seems, since I saw it last, when graffiti was being removed (mickey mouse) that they've painted the formerly bright white with fake "pointed" stone, to look like masonry, when it is made of steel plate. I had a neighbor in Brooklyn that used to work for the artist Richard Haas who paints many "trompe l'oeil" effects onto bare building walls. My Google Earth Community Post: "Also known as Bicycle Hill, and a native American 'signal fire' and burial ground, George Washington, on his triumphal tour of Long Island, a battle he once lost, wrote of it in his diary as a 'mere trifling' passing by. View in Google Earth It's a shame the gentleman who sort of started these large databases is missing at sea (Jim Gray, see: Oak Leaf Systems blog 1/29/07). He left San Francisco for the Farallon Islands off the coast of California.

Tubman Home receives restoration grant

Source: EmpireStateNews.net Tubman Home receives restoration grant

"The National Trust for Historic Preservation and Lowe’s Friday announced that they are awarding a $100,000 grant to fund restoration of the Harriet Tubman Home in Auburn, NY...

In 1859, William Henry Seward, Abraham Lincoln's future Secretary of State, sold Tubman a home on the outskirts of Auburn, N.Y, where she eventually settled her aged parents and other family members..."

SevenStock9 event unites RotorHeads from all over North America

8. I had a RX-4 I drove around Fort Drum and Manhattan, NY. Godzilla came! The 13B engine is converted to fly, uses regular gas gets same air mileage as aviation fuel. I read NASA worked on the engine seals and similar rotaries can fly tethered w/ video for overpass inspection at California DOT. I was on the I-95 Mianus Bridge in CT 3X the day it collapsed. Somebody follow California's lead will you? FDR traffic fried the wiring.

Alec Baldwin at Huffington Post: More Cautionary Tales

Comment: I have not visited Toms River, NJ home of Little Leagues Allstars, but I've worked for the EPA there in government required cultural resources assessed, i.e., archaeology on the large chemical plant there under various ownership as part of an EPA National Priority Superfund program over 15 years ago. I might add there were others in NJ and NY some I did also work on. The contaminate issue is troubling, often the previous company was responsible, if in this case remote-sensing a relatively new science finds the proverbial "buried drums" which were not regulated enough to prevent illegal "business" (ask John Mellencamp, recently on Randi Rhodes' show on AirAmerica radio, his town had what was thought regulated drum storage instead had umpteen times the regulated limit). Today, every drum in NY is tracked, officially. The remediation there required a large aquifer pump, treat, and spray. However at the time if I recall, either through Newt Gingrich's new "Republican Semantics 101" course for people in government or otherwise, the clean-up law funding, (one-half (0.5) of it paid by the chemical industry's insurance the other by double fines and double costs) was stopped when it was found that mortgage grantors, i.e., banks could also be held responsible for the mis-management on toxic chemical sites some of which, I might add, are almost absurd given that they are processed over very larger issues as you have raised, global "contrail" effects, which some of the polluters take advantage of, by getting out of the country I found. It's not my place on the airplane, but there have been some very vocal objections by people in that industry that I recall. One is to stop the dumping of fuel at altitude on trans-oceanic flights, which a pilot was very vocal about, once at altitude. Lufthansa, when I inquired said it was a regular practice and the fuel evaporates before getting to the ocean surface. Another article I recall was the inventor of new seat cushion material that would not create as hazardous a smoke condition in airline fires, which occur statistically less than I imagine people struck on golf courses by lightning. At the time the new material was just out after the regulations had been rewritten and the government would not "bend" to make it the case. My grandfather was a "crash boat" pilot at the old Flushing Airport for commercial seaplanes (another travesty, the tidal gates there not maintained, flooded, with a crane on the runway that might have been used in FAA mapped emergency, and also resulting breeding "ground zero" for the West Nile virus) and pulled military survivors from a crashed B-24 so I sometimes am attuned to these things, some regrettably.

New FedEx garage: Few jobs, lots of fumes?

By Jess Wisloski DAILY NEWS Staff Writer

Breaking ground for new FedEx facility. Some say it will bring South Bronx more congestion than jobs.

A major company moving into the Bronx is usually good news, but that wasn't so clear yesterday.

City officials and executives from FedEx broke ground on a 10-acre site that will bring less than a dozen new jobs over the next three years and a fleet of fume-spewing diesel trucks into the asthma-choked South Bronx.

The move, however, was hailed by city officials as good news for Manhattan.

Source and more info: NY Daily News published Feb. 9, 2007

It's too bad the newspaper print recycling center proposed in the same vicinity was squashed by the City and "world events" (See: Bronx Ecology: Blueprint For A New Environmentalism, Allen Hershkowitz, Maya Lin et al). Also FedEx should have the same standards as United Parcel Service, its competitor, which has used electric vehicles for many years in mid-Manhattan and wins awards for pollution control and fuel savings, where its being moved from. As a matter of policy, we should have environmental officers like Los Angeles does who are out studying the environment every day and more reporting that relies on city management and not on benefactors such as hospitals, etc., who provide info gratis, so law could be established from science as health codes have in the past with public citizen support.

Where No Man Has Gone Before

From Memory Alpha, the free Star Trek reference.

"Gene Roddenberry wanted a character named "Rice" in each TV show he created (see Lt. William Rice in "The Lieutenant"), so the Captain's name was going to be "James Rice Kirk". This explains the "James R. Kirk" tombstone Mitchell creates for Kirk. As the series developed after the second pilot it was somehow forgotten and he became James T. Kirk." That's been driving me nuts for years...there's other info here.

"...a destructive plan to clear-cut the Tongass National Forest." The Wilderness Society

We demand a better plan for Tongass

As an advocate for the protection of America's remaining wild places, I strongly object to the "proposed action" in the Tongass draft management plan.

This alternative sets logging at unreasonable and unsustainable levels - risking serious damage to the rich biological diversity of the forest. I am also gravely concerned that large, roadless areas containing pristine old-growth forest are left open for logging, when, in fact, they are the areas with the greatest need for protection.

This level of logging on the Tongass has no economic justification and would be devastating to the environment, costly to American taxpayers, and harmful to the local economy of communities in Southeast Alaska. It is far out of step with the wishes of the American public - who have repeatedly voiced their strong support for the protection of our remaining roadless areas.

Please pursue an alternative that protects -and does not damage - this incredible natural area.

In 1980 I visited Alaska, to work for the NPS in archaeology in Skagway in the Klondike Goldrush Historic Park on the Moore Cabin and hiked the Chilkoot Trail to the cabin above Sheep Camp and back on the Fourth of July. It would be better to build the road to Juneau from there and other development that might come with it than tear up what John Muir might have characterized as "priceless".

Save America's Rainforest from the Timber Industry

75th Anniversary Salute to FDR

"On July 2, 2007, the new Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago will present the 75th Anniversary Salute to FDR at the landmark Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University...

The program will also include actor Robert Vaughn portraying FDR and delivering his historic 1932 speech..."

Robert Vaughn might keep Robert Goulet away, if you saw the Superbowl XLI commercial, have some nuts...keep Robert Goulet away. The Goulets were of royalty that, like some "escaped" to America and they were involved in the early ironmongery in The Vly (valley village) between the ferry to Brooklyn and Wall and Water Gate that became Wall Street in Manhattan that I found in researching a part of the South Street Seaport Historic District. The Jarviks were there too later, the name of the doctor, inventor of the artificial heart.

German-born Turk sues Pentagon after years in Guantanamo

"A German-born Turk held for four years in the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay is taking the Pentagon to court to seek the release of secret documents about his case, his lawyer told a German newspaper...

In a landmark ruling, a German court last week ordered the arrest of 13 people thought to be CIA agents involved in the case."

Source: Breitbart Just The News... German-born Turk sues Pentagon after years in Guantanamo

24 Year-Old Videographer Now Longest-Running Imprisoned Journalist In US History

A cousin, an award winning television director ("Huntley and Brinkley") and producer ("NBC Nightly News From New York") whose last television job (he died in Mexico) was producing CBS' coverage of both parties conventions in the American Bicentennial year of 1976 would be horrified. A US Army captain in the Korean War, his eulogy was read by Edwin Newman at the UN Chapel, who used a letter written to the crew in Vietnam who had spent many months getting the "soldiers view" of that war, canceled by "higher-ups". Why is it that media has now become the new communism: "A form of socialism that abolishes private ownership" which has made the private taping of events the property of the government?

Source: Huffington Post : "24 Year-Old Videographer Now Longest-Running Imprisoned Journalist In US History"

Indian boarding schools STILL

Hello all,

Still working on Indian boarding schools here. I'm getting desperate. I know where the government run schools were. What I need are lists of Catholic boarding schools, Protestent boarding schools, and Reservation boarding schools. I don't need the details.

Does anyone know where I can find just a listing of these boarding schools?

Reply to: sdwalter@cox.net

"...the Mohican Indian from Connecticut, Samson Occum was educated by Reverend Eleazer Wheelock, ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1759, and preached among the Native Americans of Eastern Long Island. He was sent to England in 1765 to preach and was instrumental in raising 10,000 pounds to assist in the founding of Dartmouth College, Wheelock's Indian School."

THE CONNECTICUT PEDDLER: "I LOVE LONG ISLAND" http://www.stanransom.com/lovelong.htm

An interesting history of early music in the New York vicinity re-recorded with historical notes. Interesting is "Home Sweet Home" a village named after it today there and "Carry Me Back To Old Virginie" both said to have been written on Long Island. It's said America's first successful operetta was written by Micah Hawkins, another Long Islander, (the "Pied Piper of Catherine Slip" - NY State Historical Association article) is alas, to my searching, not extant and was called "A Sawmill River or a Yankee Trick, as it were Willom" listed in the origin of the "blackface" theater historical tradition played first (?) on the Bowery, NYC's first theater district.

Maybe Dartmouth might know more about it...ye old College Road cut through the Lakes Region of New Hampshire, some of which I've been on, some of it no longer a road, also its result.

Happy Waitangi Day (New Zealand) and Bob Marley's Birthday (Jamaica)!

George Bush's "State of the Union"

C-SPAN recently stated that they have no control over the television coverage of the voting in the Congress, and Mr. Lamb stated there is a large board on which you can see, as the voting on a bill is tallied, who and how they voted on it, kept from the audience on cable. We should have the information.

Similarly if they showed the President knocking on the door of the Congress, they don't have to let him in (one commentator thought they shouldn't for all the doors that have to be knocked on to tell families their loved one has died in service to their country, not his) and we were spared the long broadcast "signing" of "autographs" (like he just played for the American Basketball Association) we would have more time for information. What did he leave out? Time is money on TV, "dead air" and heads roll, maybe not on government TV?

(Comment to Huffington Post The Blog | Chris Kelly : "George Bush Throws a Veteran Under a Train")

Space Archaeology : World Archaeological Congress

 Interesting meeting of their congress ("...a non-governmental, not-for-profit organization and is the only representative world-wide body of practising archaeologists") about space and archaeoastronomy. Listed and hyperlinks here.

Google Image Result

The Only Art on the Moon

Source: Google Image Result for http://www.kirchersociety.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/moonart.jpg

Chief Justice Roberts and the Role of the Supreme Court

Chief Justice Robert's wife is from the Bronx, NY in NYC, nearby. Her brother, just before the nominations, perished when his late model Land Rover crashed over the side of the Tappan Zee Bridge into the Hudson River. The bridge will be replaced. The car company was in labor strife. I hope there was no foul play. Of course like many events no one hears a follow-up today a real problem in mass communications I think pointed out by "Wired" magazine, we've almost become an "aural" society despite techno advancements, perhaps too affected by auditory processes and hijinxs, like President Bush's handlers who've used "slapsticks" in a crowd to induce applause it's alleged.

"I stand up so you can see that you are not alone." - law professor Charles Reich, once Supreme Court justice Hugo Black's clerk and author of "The Greening of America". It must be hard to be the only woman on the bench, that is Justice Ginsberg or to have your house seized in "moot" eminent domain as Justice Souter's has in New Hampshire, the state that did not vote for George W. Bush in the Republican primary which sent one of the Republican voter hacks to jail for jamming civic service phones on election day. I would hope the court would hear more electoral issues, like the Republican voter registration drive in Mississippi a number of years ago thought to be borderline legal, and not hear the Electoral College votes to be more evenly represented. Comment to an article at the Huffington Post.

On Vauban's French forts to be placed on World Heritage list.

I was thinking of stating on the petition to save Fort Pitt that's been discussed on the list how much it reminded me of Fort McHenry ("...was originally called Fort Whetstone" on the point named after it) and this must be the reason and thanks to discussion I know a little bit more why. See: United States Plans

Edward Rutsch, from the "Society for Industrial Archeology" once gave an interesting lecture on Fort McHenry in Baltimore (a bridge may run over it yet) and then it was where I then found myself excavating in the summer before grad school for the US NPS. He was very interested in why it was flooding and quite sure that the history around it where it may have drained. It once had to have water brought to it every day, (a well dug just before the War 1812 bombardment thought for revenge of the invasion of the fort near what's today Toronto on Lake Ontario, where the bombproof blew up killing Zebulon Pike) and during the Depression CCC days the "weep holes" in the ramparts had been filled and much of the masonry "pointed" perhaps rather than "repointed".

I wonder having worked in another perhaps Vauban apparently inspired fort, Fort Jay on Governors Island in New York City's harbor (for geoarchaeology) built it's said by Columbia University students, in thankfulness to Supreme Court Chief Justice John Jay, from the "Jay Treaty".  They were once downtown vs. uptown today where former President D.D. Eisenhower was once its president. We discovered a sort of hardened clay surface in the earthen mound of the moat (dry today) that might have been part of the earthwork construction using burnt embers to harden a clay surface to carry or cart the earth by the "Anglos". Fort Jay was also once under the US Army called Fort Columbus, before the Coast Guard, which has since left and there's interesting eagle ornamentation on some of the surrounding buildings, some facing "dexter" (right) and others "sinister" (left), representing the different armed services and different occupations. Even Walt Disney served there once I was told. 

There's a small brass cannon on top of the rampart of Fort McHenry pointing out at the harbor where the British Navy was just out of range of the American guns it states I think, a gift from the French government. Merci! (Posted to histarch the forum of Historical Archaeology.)

Stars of Stony Brook Gala Honoring Richard Leakey

April 11, 2007 Pier 60 at Chelsea Piers New York City

Wolf dogs find haven in New Hampshire sanctuary - Yahoo! News

"Wolf dogs find haven in New Hampshire sanctuary" I almost ran into one in the foggy rain in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire I think years ago. A coyote, which follows the snowshoe hare (Maine Audubon Society report mid 1970s) I think I saw running across Fort Drum one night near Philadelphia, New York in 1983. In the same New Hampshire county, Carroll, there is a sled dog kennel and center near the foot of Mt. Mexico in the White Mountains.

Source: Wolf dogs find haven in New Hampshire sanctuary - Yahoo! News

A garbage dump proposed next to a World Heritage Site (cont'd)

Dear Mr. Myers: I am responding to your electronic message sent to the Headquarters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, expressing your concerns regarding a Clean Water Act Section 404 permit application filed with the St. Louis District on April 6, 2005. The applicant is Waste Management of Illinois, Inc. The applicant is requesting to borrow fill material from a 222 acre parcel adjacent to its existing Milam Recycling and Disposal Facility (RDF) in St. Clair County, Illinois. The borrowed material would be used at the Milam RDF for daily cover activities and the 222 acre tract, currently referred to as North Milam, would subsequently be used as an extension of the Milam RDF when that facility reaches its capacity. The Milam RDF has been operating for the last 20 years and is expected to reach capacity within the next five years. Approximately 18 acres of wetlands would be impacted by the proposed activity and approximately 27 acres of wetlands would be avoided in the North Milam tract. In addition to the Federal 404 permit application, Waste Management has also applied for county and state permits and licenses to operate the RDF extension. The existing Milam and proposed North Milam RDFs are located approximately two miles from the Cahokia Mound Complex and Archeological Site. Cahokia is a National Historic Landmark and a World Heritage Site. Separate from the proposed activity's proximity to Cahokia, the applicant has conducted surveys within the North Milam tract pursuant to requirements of the National Historic Preservation Act and the National Environmental Policy Act. Historic properties have been discovered at several locations within the North Milam tract and the St. Louis District, the Illinois State Historic Preservation Office and the applicant are currently considering treatment/mitigation options for these historic properties. The St. Louis District Commander, his Regulatory Branch and the district archeological specialists appreciate and understand the importance of Cahokia, the heritage assets within the proposed project tract, the concerns of federally recognized Indian tribes and views expressed by concerned citizens. They have been, and will continue to, coordinate and consult with all parties that have an expressed or required interest in the Corps treatment of the cultural environment. Your continuing interest and/or involvement in the public interest review for this permit application will assure that St. Louis District considers and evaluates all factors prior to reaching a decision on the North Milam RDF proposal. Sincerely, Paul D. Rubenstein Deputy Federal Preservation Officer Office of the Chief of Engineers

IMDb :: Boards :: Rob Roy (1995)

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As I recall there is one cut in the scene (I don't own it, it was on the Windows 95 OS launch wow we can watch film on computers) where (Spoiler?) Rob Roy MacGregor has a rope around his neck, which he is being led by and dragged by a sadistic John Graham, Marquis of Montrose, and they stop on "Urquhart's Bridge" where Rob wraps the rope around John's neck leaps off of the bridge and they have to cut the Marquis free or choke to death setting Rob Roy free too, as I recall the bridge sign. Dramatic scene. Sean Connery plays Colonel Urquhart in "A Bridge Too Far" and is admonished by General Montgomery who thought he'd go a bridge too far at the end of the film, used as also as the film title.

Montrose, NY is on the east shore of the Hudson river, today mostly a Veterans Hospital, not far from NYC. Here's the story despite the "knife attack" and "I'm mad" story reported in Ken Burns' "Civil War" (which I saw again last night)

"In the mid-1800's, the original church land on Montrose Point became the home of Frederick W. Seward (1830-1915), son of William H. Seward (1801-1872), U.S. Secretary of State during the administration of Abraham Lincoln. The older Seward was the man instrumental in purchasing Alaska from Russia for $7 million, a purchase which was known as "Seward's Folly" or "Seward's Icebox." Frederick, the son. who was a journalist and diplomat, became politically prominent himself as Assistant Secretary of State under his father. In the spring of 1865, Frederick assumed the position of acting Secretary of State when his father was seriously injured in a carriage accident."

"On the evening Lincoln was assassinated, one of the conspirators forced his way into the injured Seward's home in Washington, intent on killing him. Frederick confronted him in the hall and was seriously injured trying to prevent the slayer from reaching his father's bedside. The gun, broken on Frederick's skull, was unusable for the assassination, thus saving his father's life. Both Sewards survived the vicious attack, but it is said that Frederick lived out his life with a silver plate in his skull."

"The handsome Seward Estate covered about 30 acres. A stately mansion with a beautiful Victorian garden and various outbuildings, it commanded a magnificent view of the Hudson River. The grounds of the estate were dotted by little ponds that had been made by excavating clay for the brickyards which flourished along the Hudson during that period."

"Frederick married Anna M. Wharton of Albany on November 9, 1854. He died in Montrose on April 25, 1915, and was buried at Fort Hill Cemetery, Auburn, New York. Sometime after Frederick's death, the house which was occupied by Mrs. Seward alone, burned. A tangle of wisteria vines marks the spot where the house once stood. The property is currently owned by the Catholic Kolping Society. The gardener's house and other outbuildings are used to house vacationers seeking a peaceful country setting."

Page 65 has a photo of the large open porch of arches Mr. Seward and five women, "Figure 24. Frederick W. Seward, President Abraham Lincoln's Assistant Secretary of State, with family on the porch of his Montrose Point home. (Courtesy of the Church of Divine Love, Montrose)"

"History of the Town of Cortlandt" by the Bicentennial Committee, 1988, pps. 64-66. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 88-51063 ISBN 0-9621119-0-2

Georges Island State Park is "next door" to the south according to a county "Riverwalk" map. That park has the second oldest shell midden in New York State. Nearby also was the Kings Ferry road, where at the Kennedy House, Alexander Hamilton recovered from a grave illness while there for two weeks, also where in 1778, was held the "moving" (location, location location) trial of General Charles Lee, for "disobedience and disrespect" suspended for one year over the outcome of the "Battle of Monmouth" in New Jersey. Thereafter French troops, 6000 strong, arrived after marching from Rhode Island, and the combined forces crossed the Hudson River nearby with the Americans, and onto the defeat of General Cornwallis in Virginia, and winning the American Revolutionary War.

Source: IMDb :: Boards :: Rob Roy (1995)