How I Know Things Are Different: Way #247

Nice to hear from Mr. Reiser, not the character in "Aliens" who wants to keep the creature for the industrial-military complex, the newer world order reverses the warning by Eisenhower, once president of Columbia University. 

The first film "Alien" I saw way down in Alabama working in nearby Mississippi in 1979 on the clearance archaeology of the being built Tenn-Tombigbee Barge canal, it runs through Columbus, MS home of "Tennessee" Williams connecting with the Gulf off Mexico in Mobile, AL. Congress chose it over an "energy island" for NYC which needed more tech than was available at the time, like the Pyramids. If I was going to "film the wind" I would use the Waverly Mansion in West Point, MS. "One Nation Under Laws" a neighbor's bumper sticker reads. The later sequel "Aliens" I saw working along another "canal" the St. Lawrence Seaway, in Cornwall, Ontario, which connects the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. 

I enjoyed it , my dad worked the night shift for UPS furniture delivery in NYC, and his breakfast was often in the afternoon after school. Here's to all the night-shifters...Thanks! Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Obama Warned About Afghan Escalation: Out of Frying Pan, Into Fire?

One thing that might be tried is an alternative cash crop to poppy. I recall that it was a success in Pakistan where the plant that produced the skin sun-blocker was grown on hillsides, until it was found in terms of human exposure that it could be hazardous. Certainly a hybridization, like that of maize or corn might return it to production. The BBC had a story. A former heroin addict was working in Afghanistan convincing farmers there to raise pomegranates instead of a poppy. The Taleban (British spelling) were once organized against poppy I recall. In Morocco, hashish, is produced from cannabis plants, overseen by the monarchy. Cannabis, I found is native around the world, three types, and made into hashish, is sometimes used at the end of fasting for Ramadan in the Islamic regions. It is, however, a situation some, told by an anthropologist, are not too happy about, in the mountains of Morocco who oppose the monarchy there. If we approach the problem again, but change the subsidized agricultural bases, the poppy growers and the Taleban might stop shooting at the British Army, as reported. Soybeans have transformed quite a lot of agriculture since the 1960s in different places around the world where it is grown. I wish the guy and the "pommies" well. About Afghanistan Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Amber Online - Current Exhibit - Weegee Portfolio

THE WEEGEE PORTFOLIO

Stanley Kubrick, who began his career as a photographer and is that his wife? He was from the Bronx, NY and started out as a news photog for "Look" magazine competitor to the Luce's "Life".

A frame from "Dr. Strangelove" where the US General played by George C. Scott learns that General Jack D. Ripper has launched an aerial preemptive nuclear attack on the USSR and is called to the "War Room". "Weegee the Famous" a NYC newspaper photog, appears in a frame or two in the beginning of the trailer, (so does Kubrick) and was uncredited with the help of special effects (IMDb). Where did I leave that shopping bag full of commercials? I was following orders to be a Hollywooden filmmaker and retrieved them from the WKBW during Watergate. May your wife dissolve into a can of Comet!

Cyborgs and Cylons

Get Your Cyborg Name

CREDO: Fax John Podesta: We can't afford to let Larry Summers take over Treasury

Dear Mr. Podesta,

As chief of President-elect Obama's transition team, you will help make many decisions -- great and small -- that have a profound effect on our ability to make progressive change.

It's widely reported that former Clinton official and Harvard President Larry Summers is on your shortlist for Treasury Secretary. This is a crucial appointment given the financial crisis and its devastating effect on so many Americans.

In 1999, Summers was one of the key proponents of the banking deregulation that led to the rise of 'mega-banks' and the current financial crisis. He had a direct hand in the famous "Enron" exception. He even sent a note to the now disgraced former CEO of Enron, Ken Lay, with a handwritten PS that read: "I'll keep my eye on power deregulation and energy market infrastructure issues." That led to a reported $17 million energy deficit here in NYC at Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, our noted induction center named for our nation's Federalist, patriot and first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton. Robert E. Lee, a former West Point Commandant, lived there before the Civil War. Veterans are treated there at the hospital my godmother worked for many years.

Attached to this fax, find a copy of that letter from Summers to Lay.

In addition to this remarkable lapse in judgment, Larry Summers has argued that women are innately less gifted in science than men.

President-elect Obama needs to put an end to the excesses on Wall Street, ensure accountability for bailout funds, and get our economy moving in the right direction. Summers is not the man for this job.

Trains Erupt with Flowers: Past and Future New York City

I think it was a service to the Bank Street Market area on the westside in Greenwich Village, where there for many years had been outdoor and other markets for fresh and other produce. A similar proposal for the use of the South Bronx, at Oak Point, was a rail-link with produce, saving 10% in costs of transport, by off-loading trailer-trucks at Tappan Zee, put on freight in special containers, off-loaded onto trucks that would fit under every major bridge/overpass into and around Manhattan. I knew some archaeologists who worked on it, in part to find the original Bronks the Swedish settlers' place in New Amsterdam. Said "going up to the Bronks" led to the place-name today and the Bronx River, which Admiral Cornwallis was ordered to sail up and beat the American rebels at White Plains, by King George.

Recent forensics show that Admiral Cornwallis (his brother, the general lost at the battle of Yorktown, Virginia, when General Washington and his troops and the French troops who arrived from Rhode Island marched out of New York state to there) may have been poisoning the king with the huge amount of powdered arsenic in his wig, according to modern forensic testing in Great Britain. The Bronks place was a hill mined for fill and leveled for modern rail. Trains Erupt with Flowers: Past and Future New York City

When they put the tree up at Rockefeller Center they hadn't realized...

...it had Spiders From Mars!

Today in American Labor History

Northland Poster

Reminds me a little of the Alaska Pipeline. By law it was to employ a minimum of 5% of native Alaskans, one of its reasons for acceptance by the US Congress. Turned out I read zip, nada, no-one of the native Alaskans worked on it it was reported. Was it due to hiring practices or politics?

Trimble Buys RolleiMetric

Trimble also announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of RolleiMetric from Rollei GmbH of Braunschweig, Germany, in an all-cash transaction. RolleiMetric is a provider of metric camera systems for aerial mapping and terrestrial close-range photogrammetry. Financial terms were not disclosed.

- "New Trimble Precision Products, RolleiMetric and Saab Deals" p. 47, Fall 2008, Industry View, in InsideGNSS - GPS-GALILEO-GLOSNASS-COMPASS - Engineering Solutions from the Global Navigation Satellite Community http://www.insidegnss.com/

Diane Sawyer Lands Ashley Dupre, Eliot Spitzer's Hooker

Was New York State's Governor Eliot Spitzer "Watergated"? That's where Monica Lewinsky's parents lived next to Bob and Libby Dole it was reported. Inquiring minds want to know...Spitzer was reporting and investigating the subprime and mortgage discrimination phenomena, according to the "top 25 overlooked stories of 2009" ongoing list. (Ed. - "Project Censored - The news that didn't make the News" #25 Bush's Real Problem with Eliot Spitzer in "Top 25 Censored Stories For 2009".) Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Holtzman were the only women "permitted" at the "Watergate break-in" hearings under then President Nixon. Diane Sawyer Lands Ashley Dupre, Eliot Spitzer's Hooker - Huffington Post

Scientists: Reverse Age-Old Engineering Or The Great Lakes Suffer

I recall surveying parts of the St. Lawrence Seaway in New York State, for archaeology, where there are mostly farms, the opposite in Canada across the way, major development. Some of the properties taken were being returned as it was there was no taxes to repair roads, etc., in some of the villages and towns between Ogdensburg, a former large rail port, and Massena, NY (once a candidate for the superconducting supercollider that was partially built and abandoned in Texas).

We share a hydroelectric dam there with Canada, opened by President Eisenhower and Queen Elizabeth. One thing never built was a port in New York, though the locks there facilitate the large ore carriers and cargo carriers of international trade. Perhaps if there was a port there to process traffic it might help, like a customs stop that people and vehicles go through at the various US/Canada crossings would make sense from a development and ecological point of view. There seems to be very few officers and many miles of seaway to watch and from what I saw, no one inspecting ships. Most of the seaway traffic benefits Chicago, Illinois.
About Animals Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Count Rumford would have enjoyed this...

Vital Signs Project: Waverley Mansion

Passive Cooling: Past and Present

West Point, Mississippi

How are occupied [garbologi]?

Around the light | the Question- answer | How are occupied [garbologi]?

Around the light | Chronograph | On November 15, 1988

Took place the first flight of domestic shuttle “snow-storm” (Buran) Around the light Chronograph On November 15, 1988

Planetary Society

Dear George,

Several months ago, you entered a trivia contest in The Planetary Report. Well, we finally drew a winner, and it's you. Congratulations!

You sent me an address, so we know where to send your t-shirt, but I do need to know what size to send. Also, I'd like to know if you will allow us to publish your name and city in the next issue of the magazine. Since this is a privacy issue, we can only publish it if we have explicit consent, so please reply with your answer.

If I do not hear back from you, your name will NOT be published (you're still the winner, and you still get the prize).

Thank you for entering our trivia contest.

Best wishes, -Jennifer Vaughn, Director of Publications

Answer: Jerry Lynn Ross is a veteran of seven space shuttle missions, making him the record holder for most spaceflights by an astronaut a record he shares with Franklin Chang-Diaz.

International Boundaries Research Unit : Maritime jurisdiction and boundaries in the Arctic region - Durham University

NBC national television this morning had a report with Matt Lauer, who spoke at a Greenwich, CT High School graduation I once attended, from a reporter who spent a long time, for a reporter, in the Arctic on the Canadian Coast Guard cutter "CCGS Amundsen" currently engaged in scientific research. It reminded me of this map from June 2008. It also reminded me of the educational PBS "live" from the North Pole feed, a few years ago, when out of the "blue" that summer, a large red Russian ice-breaker, also appeared in the report. It also reminds me of a polar projection map of the world which has all the continents on a flat circle except Antarctica, I once painted in dayglo, centered on the North Pole. International Boundaries Research Unit : Maritime jurisdiction and boundaries in the Arctic region - Durham University Why is the Arctic Warmer than the Antarctic? Why above Antarctic is destroyed ozone layer? (translated from Russia)

Ian Fleming

By Sefton Delmer

Red Ink and Rewrites? We don't need no...: First NEO object to be spotted and tracked to Earth exploded near the Nile in the Sudan.

Follow up visual evidence in the sky: The scientists of Sudan registered the unique phenomenon (translated from Russian).

Jon Stewart And Lily Tomlin Honor George Carlin - Yahoo! Buzz

Mr. Carlin was an important arts guy, either on the Shining Time Station or "excellent adventures" or a priest in "Dogma" which gave the Bob Newhart crowd a run for the "money" back when people sometimes sat around in groups and listened to stereo comedy and the King Biscuit Comedy Hour. He also showed that reality can also be funny not so easy to do without thinking!  Jon Stewart And Lily Tomlin Honor George Carlin - Yahoo! Buzz

N.Y.P.D. Is Sued Over Denial of Press Credentials - City Room Blog - NYTimes

What’s next, I don’t like the script, you can’t have a permit to film? Reporters present a much less danger to the public than the “Lights, Action, Camera” productions that have come to the streets of New York. Is the Police Department about to dictate what they can see there too? I think it a shame, in the Nation’s first capitol, to have to be cleared though the police, like it was still the Revolutionary War and you had to go see the Hessian Police on Doughty Street by the Brooklyn-Manhattan ferry, hired by the British (maybe sent by Goethe). There’s a lake at Bear Mountain Park named after them. Just let the reporters register.  N.Y.P.D. Is Sued Over Denial of Press Credentials - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com

New York Proposal 1 (2008) - Ballotpedia

New York Proposal 1 (2008) Good news for disabled US veterans in New York seeking civil service jobs, a State constitutional amendment, passed 77%-23% in the last election. New York Proposal 1 (2008) - Ballotpedia It was not explained too well, however, the voters that I know didn't get a voters guide that might have explained it. Same old machines too from the early 1960s despite the threat of Federal action.

Erica Heller: How Do I Thank Thee, Sarah Palin?

The election reminded me a little of one part Joseph Heller's "Portrait of an Artist as an Old Man"; one part "Everything You Know" by Zoe Heller (any relation?) another part "Oh, the Things I Know!" Al Franken and part "Tom Brokaw: A Long Way From Home Growing Up In the American Heartland" who announced at like 3:30 am in 2000 that the Bush family had prevailed or so it seemed on the way to the toilet.

I think if the Republicans had nominated former Massachusetts Governor Weld, the once nominated ambassador to Mexico by the Clinton administration, though the Republicans would not stand for the bipartisanship, originally from Long Island, it might have been a closer election, perhaps with or without Governor Palin.  Erica Heller: How Do I Thank Thee, Sarah Palin?

UFO Cult Fashion: Heaven's Gate UFO Cult Sneakers - Creepy, Wrong, or Fake?

I read Nichelle Nicols brother got caught up in that. It also involved a British insurance company that insured against "alien abduction" after that, no longer offered. Was there a payment? I studied astronomy and our professor once was dating Kohoutek's future wife. That comet will be back in about 75,000 years.  UFO Cult Fashion: Heaven's Gate UFO Cult Sneakers - Creepy, Wrong, or Fake?

Retro Futurism: John Cleese Explains Why The Compaq II Is Better Than A Dead Fish

The lot where the film "Batteries Not Included" was filmed (Spielberg) is in "Alphabet City" the lower east-side of Manhattan that used to be mostly shipyards filled in east of 1st Avenue so they were called Avenue A, Avenue B-D (2nd Ave. to the west) and was investigated archaeologically when a combination housing/housing police headquarters was proposed around the time of the Tompkins Square "riots". One of the things we found were "abolitionist coins" put in circulation to confound and remind people to outlaw slavery.

Where I worked, at 50 Trinity Place (recently demolished) in Manhattan, we had a Compaq I. It had color but on a green screen so it was shades of green. For storage we connected it to a Tallgrass external unit with a 20 meg hard-drive and a 20 meg tape drive, the Compaq had only 5 1/4" floppy disks. It was a business choice for the same $ amount an IBM XT with color graphics card and monitor once was ($5000). They were used in the inventory and reports of archaeology conducted in lower Manhattan, one site from New Amsterdam had the grandfather of Paul Revere and the warehouse of the ambassador ("Czech" the Dutch called him) from Maryland, Augustine Heerman who is sometimes credited with introducing the Dutch to tobacco, across from the former Induction Center on Whitehall that had millions of men pass through it for the armed services, also bombed a couple of times, now a steel and glass skinned athletic club. We worked on the site under greenhouse in the winter for Greenhouse Consultants no connection well yes but it's the guy's name. Thanks for the memory, the next computer was a Sperry. Retro Futurism: John Cleese Explains Why The Compaq II Is Better Than A Dead Fish

Ed. - Dr Who appears in Prime computer ads That's a good one he was one of my only "Doctor Who" to see here in the States. I saw his site online too, it was a shot in the arm. Over here I imagine the VAX computer similar to the Prime, quite a few of them at one time in the World Trade Center, at least the company Ebasco, a Texas based power plant designer had one in their Envirosphere division in quite a few upper floors. I ran around with a small crew digging holes in Fort Drum which has since geared-up for the Army 10th Mountain Division and deployment in "Southwest Asia" (Iraq and Afghanistan). I was researching North Creek, New York about 40 miles from the origin of the Hudson River (Tear in the Clouds) and stopped along the river in a state rest. There was a notice that the brown trout had telemetry on them, I suppose some small radio device and to please, if caught, release to help with the study. Closest I know of a fish with a computer, many read "Salinity Today".

Newsvine - Must it Always be About Sex? (That's Indecent!)

I was in a court case where a man and his woman (unbeknown at the time) were pulled over by an unmarked car by three plain-clothes police officers at about 3:00 am in a place called "Indian Village" in the Bronx (after its street names not its residences) and the officers read into the record the string of curses allegedly uttered by the defendant as they placed him under arrest, precipitated by not coming to a complete stop at a stop sign. The 6 person jury sat through the three officers' "testimony" of those expletives the current Supreme Court is considering, though in a stream of consciousness one might be prone to out of the circadian rhythm, "transit umbra, lux permanet" when confronted with physical, that is bodily, detention and incarceration. I think we hung the jury when in review of the testimony there was never recorded that the defendant had ever been informed of his Miranda rights, the right to remain silent, etc. He had also been recently engaged to the woman who was in the car unknown to the officers. It was part of a former Mayor Rudolf Giuliani "safe streets" effort. We were implored not to visit the site in our deliberations by the judge. Newsvine - Must it Always be About Sex? (That's Indecent!)

McClatchy Washington Bureau | 11/06/2008 | Treasury Department turns up pressure on Iran

Just before the students took over the US Embassy, over Savak, the Shah's (whose line General Schwartzkopf's father in the 1930s US Expeditionary force had put in power) secret police spying on Iranian students in U.S. colleges and universities, Savak was a big recruiter, the Grumman Corporation had a compound outside Tehran with almost 4,000 Americans in it teaching the Shah's air force how to fly and service the 79 F-14s it had delivered (20 operational today Wikipedia) thought to be out of 100, apparently all paid for. When the crisis occurred we were going to blow them all up if the USSR made a move for their mutual border, the air-to-air missile tech would upset the balance of power in the world if captured the F-14 test pilot told me as we heard it come over the main stream television news. Built on Long Island, NY I saw the last two flying, they've since left, where they built the lunar lander and merged with Northrup.  McClatchy Washington Bureau | 11/06/2008 | Treasury Department turns up pressure on Iran

Retromodo: Happy Birthday Saturn V, Still The Biggest Rocket of All

Visiting the Cape in spring of 1971, I recall getting up next to and looking inside the what I thought was called the "Vehicle Assembly Building" which could hold in volume I think 3 1/2 Empire State Buildings. I just saw the one in India that launched the current research satellite in successful orbit around the Moon, partly for NASA. I've also seen the HDTV of the Earth "rising" over the lunar horizon, recorded by the Japanese research satellite, and the Chinese spacewalk in Earth orbit. I think Saturn V certainly inspired, hopefully it will also bring more international cooperation and not a new Babel 17. Retromodo: Happy Birthday Saturn V, Still The Biggest Rocket of All

The Eagle has also crashed as far as I know, where? Nobody knows. The other Grumman Lunar Excursion Modules were crashed for seismic recordings of the geology of the Moon which has gravitational anomalies. I was reading in retrospect the Eagle was also landed off its mark due to the boulder fields and it was quite a feat, in the days before serious hand calculators to rendezvous back with the orbiting Apollo capsule. Maybe someday humankind will recover the "Eagle".

They also left a small wooden piece from the Wright Brothers plane that first flew at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina according to a small exhibit I saw at the National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, once there in an archaeological clearance of Shaker burials in their Watervliet, Ohio community turned into a research park.

Beatles hard days night mystery chord Solved with Fourier analysis | Noise Addicts music and audio blog

McClatchy Washington Bureau | 11/07/2008 | Florida teen sentenced to life in prison for killing classmate

That link puts the reader in the North Carolina Eve Carson murder. That said, a fourteen year old who thinks he may end up a serial killer must have some mental problems he's trying to control. The first "insanity" case, was when the NY Representative who later was Civil War General Sickles, shot and killed the Washington, D.C. District Attorney, the son of Francis Scott Key (wrote the words to the Star Spangled Banner) for his wife's supposed infidelity, when the D.A. walked by and waved a hankie at the house. There was a woman who used to see General Sickles, (famous also for donating his amputated leg to the national medical museum) on the train in Croton, NY. She searched for any writings that his "wife" and he were actually married and found no mention. She was called "Swamp Angel" and the rifled West Point Foundry Parrott gun that fired incendiary shells on the civilians of Charleston, South Carolina and also exploded, in Trenton, NJ was nicknamed for her. It was also a gang of wharf thieves in the port of New York.

So he was acquitted an adult and later general, but a 14 year old might not what, have lived long enough to "experience" momentary insanity?

McClatchy Washington Bureau | 11/07/2008 | Florida teen sentenced to life in prison for killing classmate

Bill Ayers Tells His Side: 'A Bit Surreal'

Those days were turbulent, as many groups with political issues had the publics eye, even a resulting "police riot" in New York's Attica State prison, a 45rpm song by John Lennon, also once of the "Beatles", who we've found under the US federal "freedom" FOIA (FOIL a law in New York State) to have been followed around by agents even onto the then State University of NY at Stony Brook, perhaps over his association with people of his native lands, Ireland. I wouldn't be surprised if Mr. Ayers was an explosives "party pooper". I attended a public high school back then with a Marine Corps "junior" ROTC, a college campus "senior" one "blown-up" supposedly over the "Vietnam War" (undeclared by Congress) with lots of called in "bomb scares" where all student lockers were searched. Twenty plus organizations claimed responsibility over the phone for the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993 I recall. $1 billion a year in 20,000 mostly poor school districts were spent on that program reported by "Defense Monitor" on PBS in the early 1990s. My high school was in Selden, NY named after the judge who testified as a "character witness" at the trial of Susan B. Anthony who broke the law when she posed as a man to vote in an Upstate election. Now remember volunteer firemen (any women in it?) to report any suspicious materials or other "strange" things you might see in the course of inspections, community charity fundraisers, etc. Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Michael Crichton’s Question - TierneyLab Blog - NYTimes

Condolences to his family. I too, read he was so tall he had the doorways cut at the top in his home in Westchester, NY to keep from ducking or banging into every room. I suppose he was glad to not have had to drive a Willy’s Army jeep!

As an archaeology worker in EPA “Superfund” sites I’ve watched the standards of cleanup, charged twice then with double fines, using one-half the money from the chemical industry insurance pool, later “loopholed” to the mortgage granters, contested and changed between state requirements and federal, specifically the state’s standards more stringent. How the detection of “half-life” of bottom sediments change with the new detection instruments, once thought immutable, become politically charged, so in a way the science becomes the agent of change in a scenario the EPA still grants a certain level of pollution to happen everyday, numbers per discharged into the environment, test often reflecting an acceptable 8 hour exposure of adults in the work-place, thought acceptable. Mix two or more together and often nobody has any idea of the “synergistic effects”. Michael Crichton’s Question - TierneyLab Blog - NYTimes

New F W Boreham Books - Mahatma's friend in South Africa

Lover of Life is a tantalizing sketch of Joseph John Doke, a Baptist Minister, artist and author, who was born in 1861 and ministered in England, New Zealand and South Africa. It is the stirring account of a frail man who became a fighter against discriminating legislation and an advocate with Mahatma Gandhi in championing the freedom of Indians in South Africa. As well as serving as pastor of the Johannesburg Baptist church Doke participated in protests, contributed to newspapers and had the distinction of writing the first biography of Mahatma Gandhi. In 1913 he visited Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) to explore a new development for the South African Baptist Missionary Society and died tragically on his way home.

Monument tweaks American noses on War of 1812

TORONTO - A provocative new monument in downtown Toronto that "gently" reminds onlookers who won the War of 1812 shows a giant British toy soldier towering over a toppled American figurine.

Newsvine - James Crichton Society | Transit umbra, lux permanet

New scholarly journal, named after "the admirable Crichton" a publication of the James Crichton Society at the University of St. Andrews, the oldest university in Scotland, founded in 1413, due out at the end of this month. Newsvine - James Crichton Society | Transit umbra, lux permanet

The Montauk: Native Americans of Eastern Long Island

The Board of Trustees of Guild Hall

cordially invite you

to attend the opening of

The Montauk: Native Americans of Eastern Long Island

Saturday, February 2, 1991

4:00 to 6:00 p.m.

Gallery talk by Guest Curator, Dr. Gaynell Stone

3:30 p.m.

FREE SYMPOSIA

Saturday, March 2nd – The History of the Montauk

Speakers: 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m

Dr. John Strong, Southampton College

“How the Montauk Lost Their Land”

Dr. Laraine Williams, New Jersey State Museum

“The Montauk Fort and Forts Corchaug and Shantok”

Dr. Robert Venables, Cornell University

“The Montauk at Brothertown and Wisconsin”

Philip Rabito-Wyppensenwah, New York University

“Ethnography with the Montauk Today”

Workshop: 3:00-4:30 p.m.

Alice Ross, State University of New York at Stony Brook and members of the Pharoah family, Sag Harbor

“Native Foodways” – Lecture and hands-on demonstration on the preparation of Native American foods, followed by a festive repast.

Saturday, March 9th – The Material Culture of the Montauk

Speakers: 9:00 a.m.- 3:00 p.m.

Dr. Edmund Carpenter, New York University

“Frank Speck’s Work with Long Island and Southern New England Native Groups”

Edward Johanneman and Laurie Biladillo, Long Island Archaeology Project

“Montauk Fields: Last Reservation of the Montauk”

Dr. Gaynell Stone, State University of New York at Stony Brook

“The Historiography of the Montauk”

Dr. Kevin McBride, University of Connecticut

“Montauk and Southern New England Native Sites”

Workshop: 3:00-4:30 p.m.

Jeffrey Gottlieb, Technology Specialist

“Native Technology” – Lecture and hands-on workshop, creating and demonstrating stone flint tools, baskets and weavings.

ONGOING VIDEO

“The Lost Tribe” – A video on the Brothertown Native American community, which includes Montauks, of Brothertown, Wisconsin. Produced by WHA Public Television, Madison Wisconsin.

EDUCATIONAL SERVICES

Gallery tours and workshops are available for school groups in conjunction with this exhibition. School and adult tours may be arranged by appointment.

Call Rebecca Lincoln, Education Associate at 324-0716

This exhibition and related public programs are funded by a grant from the New York Council for the Humanities, a state program of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Over: caption for photo of woman in native dress:

Emma Halsey Hall, Eastville Band of the Montauks, circa early 1900’s, Cuffee-Halsey Collection, Courtesy of Red Thunder Cloud, Catawba

Peter Andrew Herger

There was a call yesterday I did not want to hear before voting in "St. Dominic's Preview" (Van Morrison song). A cousin, and an educator, artist and I feel a great American had passed away in Danbury, CT. I grew up with him on and off in the Bronx, at Candlewood Lake in a blackout with the measles, and on Long Island where his parents and family moved to West Islip and us to Centereach, with his older twin brothers and younger sister. I am in shock because I hadn't "googled" him (sounds like "googooplex" a 1 followed by 100 zeros named by a mathematician's kid) When last I saw him it was at his mothers wake.

We exchanged some stories about the "Tweed Courthouse" in City Hall Park in NYC, dedicated by then Mayor Fernando Wood, where the Dept. of Education he was working for, had recently moved its headquarters. The former courthouse with large stairways had been slated as a museum of NYC. I had worked on various phases of the archaeology of human remains thought to be and also found in the park, particularly the city's "First Almshouse" cemetery, as part of the re-roofing, re-wiring and rebuilding of the entire City Hall Park, both its antebellum courthouse (pre-Civil War) and the older government City Hall. Its architect, John McComb, had designed and built the first US President, George Washington's commissioned work, Montauk Lighthouse, named after the Native Americans of Eastern Long Island who today reside in the Brothertown Native American community, which includes the Montauks, in Brothertown, Wisconsin. I think, from the painted glass over a doorway in the former courthouse, it is where they lost their land, in a Federal court trial. But what I think and what might have happened ? I missed the Free Symposia at Guild Hall at Southampton College about them in 1991, that college now is a part of Stony Brook University.

It is with sadness I also hear on the TV today that the NYC Dept. of Education will be facing cuts under the recent economic downturn, and the students, perhaps future candidates and administrators like now US President-elect Barack Obama, that he taught, nurtured and helped educate, will suffer in the new round of "budget cuts". Both he and the newly elected President were alumni of Columbia University, as were many of my professors in the Stony Brook University Anthropology department, either alumni or then employed by both, also the first female chairwoman in a statistically male-dominated field, which now also has a campus in Manhattan. It is currently searching for a replacement for its long-serving female university president.

Peter Herger's uncle, George Murray, who once directed "Huntley and Brinkley" and produced other television news events, might have agreed with Ariana Huffington, who declared a winner to the election the other day as "The Internet" because before President-elect Barack Obama gave his acceptance speech in Chicago, he sent everyone of his supporters an email thanking them for their support (reported on television).

I will miss him and remember him and if you would like to see what he struggled for in education please "surf" over to: Peter Andrew Herger

Columbia Names Director of Historic Preservation - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com

They should also preserve what they have, the lab where the archaeologist and faculty member Ralph Solecki, Ph.D., worked, who found the Shanidar Cave Neanderthal burials in the Zagros Mountains of Iraq. Put up a sign if there isn’t already, he also worked in the local archaeology of Long Island his long time friend Carlyle S. Smith, on Long Island, NY, “the first archaeologist to intensively study Woodland material from the Island, identified various pottery types that indicated the presence of two major prehistoric cultural traditions, Windsor and East River.” (Garvies Point Museum).  Columbia Names Director of Historic Preservation - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com

Answers About the Empire State Building - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com

“The Excelsior State” might not work, it was once another name for packing material before “peanuts” of styrofoam, bubble-wrap and other plastic airbags. It’s also an avenue in Saratoga Springs where “Old Red Spring” is located. I worked on the EPA Superfund site across the street, where “city gas” was made, stored and redistributed from twin brick “gasholders” which “coal tar” was a byproduct of, the German chemists made fortunes out of it, chiefly aniline dyes. It colored the world!  Answers About the Empire State Building - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com Ed. - all the large electrical conduit in the ESB is made from coal tar.

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Jackie Bouvier Kennedy’s father helped cut the ribbon at the opening of the George Washington Bridge. I also recall her and JFK, he as a child was a resident of Riverdale in the Bronx until the stock market crash, 1929, his father wanted to invest in the “talkies” emerging in NYC, had a friendly disagreement over preservation, she a proponent, JFK more the politician, whom usually have some new plan for development on their table. Considering her popularity, she may have had as much influence as the old Penn Station, the PAL shipped my brother and I out of to a dairy farm for a couple of weeks in the late 1950s, from out of the South Bronx projects.

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Re: Plantation vs. Farmstead at ArchaeoSeek A Social Network for Archaeologists

The Waverly Plantation, outside of Columbus, Mississippi, on the Tombigbee River, was said to have upwards of 900 slaves. However, where archaeology was done, working in the archaeology nearby (William H. Adams et al) it was in the ferry town or village where the large federal project was to create the "Tennessee-Tombigbee Barge Canal" the Tennessee River it's feeder in NE Mississippi and connecting with the canals in Alabama using the Tombigbee River and connecting through Mobile, Alabama with the Gulf of Mexico. Those properties where slaves were, were apparently not very near the Waverly mansion, restored and preserved by historians, but said in another location. Ice from Boston was once shipped up the Tombigbee to the Waverly plantation.

A similar "toponym" had been used in the north, on Long Island they were called "manors" the Gardiner Island Manor, on Gardiners Island, the Sylvestor Manor on Shelter Island investigated archaeologically, the William Floyd Manor the "fourth signer" of the Declaration of Independence and perhaps the first New Yorker to, now part of the Fire Island National Seashore, the Manor of St. George, etc.(?), all had different economies that are still not very well understood from the British colonial era but apparently involved a trade across long sea distances.