Saturday, August 29, 2009

US NPS Archeology E-Gram

From 1604 to 1607, a French expedition explored the southeastern Canadian and New England coasts, ranging as far south as Cape Cod. The Frenchmen encountered many Native people throughout the region. Some of the interactions were peaceful, others were violent. The first winter base for this expedition is now within the boundary of Saint Croix Island IHS, a unit of the National Park system. One of the Native American settlements to be visited is located within the present boundaries of Cape Cod National Seashore. Archeological data, written accounts, drawings, and maps from the French reports of the exploration provide a wealth of information about the Native people, their ways of life, and their settlements. The nature of the interactions between Europeans and Native Americans at contact established patterns that were to continue throughout the colonial era in New England.

Interesting problem in US parks, this one the very old Maine border and Cape Cod, Massachusetts, another Skagway, Alaska and Seattle, Washington, (gold arrived) part of the "new" Klondike Gold-rush Historic Park, and both part of the histories of the US-Canada border we share, though on opposite sides of North America and in different oceans.

Friday, August 28, 2009

Friesland Day - New Island Festival - September 12

Friesland Day - New Island Festival September 12 - Governors Island Shared via AddThis Made in Friesland - 400 years of friendship with America

Tell Secretary Clinton: Ban Blackwater

Tell Secretary Clinton: Ban Blackwater

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As a taxpayer, and as a former employee of Berger, Inc., which is trying to provide a number of services to Iraq, and whose father's oncologist, Dr. LaPera, filmed the effects of the first coalition war to show the serious health effects of bombing to water supplies for Iraq's children, in a country, one of the poorest in the world in "water" and as an anthropologist, I strongly urge you to end all State Department contracts with Blackwater. Let more humanitarian efforts rule the day.

Thursday, August 27, 2009

On The Media

Posted by: George Myers August 27, 2009 - 12:50PM
Bronx, NY-  On The Media - Don Hewitt - CBS

I had a cousin, George Murray, who worked for the "other side" though the disclosure of a Vietnam spy inside the Don Hewitt organization, an assistant to Morey Safer, might blur distinctions. He was an Army Captain in Korea that worked making films for the DOD after serving in NYC, landed a job in the film-editing room at NBC, and when the director for "Huntley & Brinkley" was out sick, filled in and became their regular director and later award winning producer for NBC according to noted author and television journalist Edwin Newman. A short contract was not renewed and his last work in TV was producing the coverage for CBS of both parties Presidential conventions of 1976.

George Murray died while in Mexico City, with his wife, an Avon executive, and Mr. Newman, at his eulogy in the U.N. Chapel, reread a letter he had to send to reporters in then South Vietnam, working at risk and peril, gathering the "soldier's view" of what became known as the "Vietnam debacle" their work had been canceled by "higher ups". Also called "Madison Avenue's war", since it was never declared by Congress, the entire CBS company (and others?) was sued for its news department's report by General Westmoreland, over allegations of "body count" manipulations in a post "debacle" news retrospective, command then held by the general.

It was quite an "irony" that the spy had eluded detection by Don Hewitt, whose excellent reports at "60 Minutes" helped define a new generation of news reporting.

Future planetary exploration: Call for New MSL Landing Site Proposals

Back in Professor Hogan's "Planetary Atmospheres" and Tobias Owen, planetary geologist was at Earth and Space Sciences at Stony Brook University, we had some of the info from the Viking mission (Carl Sagan's "baby") as it arrived, I think. How about a return to there to re-sample what didn't or was inconclusively tested? Then go like a "bat-out-of-hell" to somewhere nearby of interest. However, not entirely a sentimental journey, scientific: "‘Doveryai no proveryai’ – ‘trust but verify’ – that’s the phrase Reagan learned to say in Russian." Mikhail Gorbachev

August 22, 2009 10:34 PM

Future planetary exploration: Call for New MSL Landing Site Proposals

Friday, August 21, 2009

In Defense of Ryan O'Neal

Wikipedia: Candi Barr

"The movie rights to Barr's early life story was purchased by producer Mardi Rustam in 1982. In 1984, Texas Monthly listed Barr among such luminaries as Lady Bird Johnson as one of history's "perfect Texans." In March 1988, it was announced that Ryan O'Neal would direct Farrah Fawcett in a biopic about Barr based on a script by George Axelrod, who wrote the Broadway play Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, but the movie was never produced."
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

MAKS 2009 has kicked off - RT

MAKS 2009 has kicked off - RT According to "American Heritage" then President Abraham Lincoln allowed the Russian fleet to over-winter in New York City and San Francisco. A dastardly plan was afoot by European nations to takeover Russia while its fleet was icebound in the winter. Shared via AddThis

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Dredging damages Hudson fort remnants - Environment- msnbc.com

Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

Crews dredging PCBs from the Hudson River rip away remnants of what was once Britain's largest fort in Colonial America, a mistake that incensed local officials.

Worked on this problem on and off for the last 25 years. Odd to see the dredged materials going to Texas by rail, when an appropriate clay deposit was tested for archaeological significance right nearby in the early 1980s. My first CAD maps, submitted to the state.

Woodstock: 40 years later still on foot between Grand Central Station and Pennsylvania Station…

As a dishwasher at Camp Timber Lake, in 1968, we used to go into Woodstock, NY where the small village green had the sign "KEEP OFF GRASS". You could actually get a swordfish steak there in Dino's. I didn't know Bob Dylan and family and others were there too. "Out back" behind the camp is now the "Westkill Mountain Wilderness Area" which is a good thing, it's often frequented by bears according to the locals.

I had stayed by the "Hogfarm" bus mostly and the "first stage". Later seen in "Quest" magazine, the Hogfarm (also in "Easy Rider") bus and people went to India to help eradicate smallpox. Thought they found the last case, unfortunately not, Africa was, and the "governments" of the US and Russia still stockpile it. George Washington had it, one time he left the country as a youth, on a survey. Gave my ticket away years later. 40 years later there's still no connection between Grand Central Station and Pennsylvania Station. Barefoot after Woodstock dropped off at the wrong station. Not enough $. Took the subway out near the LIE. Walked a lot, slept a bit, got home with some help from the "Armadillo" drummer out in the early morning to go clamming (venus mercenaria) in the Great South Bay.

A few years later at Watkins Glen Music Festival, a woman friend slipped off the top of one of those round bus roofs. Piggyback to the medical tent to set her leg and piggy-back back to the little white bus from Colorado Springs, CO with a propane toilet. I helped Mr. Hyde, carrying a Sony video port-a-pack around interviewing people for a class. It was the dawning of a new era...video for everyone! Big Brother is watching!

More recently, I went to the "REO Speedwagon, Styx, Journey" concert in the Nassau Coliseum. Stadium seating is a good thing, my cousin's husband, Steve Augeri, was the lead singer for Journey starting around "Armageddon" the film until he had some lung problems seven years later. I enjoyed seeing the West Coast band and his first appearance in NYC at the Beacon Theater, which has since had a multi-million $ renovation, a grand old theater, like the one Steve told me to go see "Quest For Fire" in Brooklyn.

I work-studied weekends in the Stony Brook University gym undergrad/grad and saw many of the acts back in the late 70's and early 80's until employed as a weekend cleaner in part at Stony Brook's, then finally, Staller Center for the Arts. A "townie" I had attended many rock concerts at Stony Brook University back in the late 60's and 70's when it was a stop for many of the headliners tours, i.e., Kinks, Who, Jimi Hendrix, free Jefferson Airplane summer outdoor concert, Allman Brothers, Mountain, J. Geils, (was that Faye Dunaway I saw on stage in the sound-check etc.) not that I saw them all but I think the overall affect was good for the Arts in general, at least there.

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

My Acid Trip with Squeaky Fromme

It's odd she would say she was beat up by Mel Lyman's family, Wikipedia puts them in Boston. I was on a Greyhound to Seattle back after Mt. St. Helens exploded, $99 anywhere they went, from Hauppauge, NY to Seattle then air to Juneau to Skagway, to work on the historical archaeology of Alaska's first railroad station there, the Captain Moore Cabin, (riverboat captain married to a Tlingit, found the trails into the Yukon) etc., at the Klondike Gold Rush Historical Park and struck up a conversation with a woman who was heading for her grandfather's place in Bremerton, outside Seattle. She said there was another Family place in Eureka, California, referring to Manson, perhaps she meant the Mel Lyman family, he is listed as born there. My grandparents lived in Seattle for a few years while in the Merchant Marine on the USS Buckner. I'm guessing she didn't get beat up in Boston, MA, where I was watching "The Spy Who Loved Me" w/ my best friend's now ex-wife, about when, Elvis Presley and Groucho died? Summer before worked near Elvis' birthplace, for a new barge canal. When she gets out maybe she elaborate on that, Lyman's dead, presumably of natural causes. Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Monday, August 10, 2009

WWII Shipwrecks Sought in 'Graveyard of the Atlantic'

A good study is Michael Gannon's "Operation Drumbeat: The Dramatic True Story of Germany's First U-Boat Attacks Along the American Coast in World War II" Harper & Row, 1990.

My grand-uncle Leman C. Urquhart, a Savannah, GA harbor pilot, Master Mariner, was the captain of the "S.S. City of Atlanta" when it was torpedoed off Diamond Shoals, Cape Hatteras, NC having left the New York City harbor, by U-123, one of the first commercial ships in our territorial waters cited in the chapter "Where Is the Navy?" in January of 1942 sunk in "Operation Drumbeat (Paukenschlag)". Of the 47 aboard only 3 survived, he not one. He is memorialized with others on the flagpole outside the North Head Church, on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, Canada, where he was from.

Would appreciate any info this survey finds as will many others, and hope that the risk of explosives and dangerous torpedoes is documented that might threaten the "sport" dive community.

I guess they haven't been able to find "America's first submarine" the U.S. Navy's "Alligator" which I read might have been at Appomattox had the river not been so low. Maybe they're looking at all the bottom targets to see if it's among the "graveyard".

The "City of Atlanta" was built in West Chester, Pennsylvania in 1903. I read they resisted propellers for propulsion because as side-wheelers they burned twice as much coal. Coal industry! I've been informed it had a screw propeller when it was sunk, perhaps refitted for coastal voyages, the picture shown to me at the National Maritime Historical Society's library at its launch perhaps.

I had been part of a report published by them in their quarterly magazine of two nearby centerboard sloop cargo hulks, left at the shore in today's New York State's Bear Mountain Park just below Revolutionary War Forts Montgomery and Clinton, near the underside of the Hudson River spanning, Bear Mountain Bridge. They appeared with masts on the rivers west shore in the background of a photo of a replica of Henry Hudson's "Half Moon" sailing by in the perhaps 325th anniversary of his voyage here. Today, the Popolopen Creek Suspension Footbridge crosses nearby the hulks which were investigated at the behest of the New York SHPO and recorded by myself and Grossman & Associates for the SHPO.

The again simple answer might be launched like that, once a coal powered side-wheeler it was converted to oil for coastal voyages. Or my recollection is wrong.

I'm reminded of "S.S. Savannah" built in NY-NJ the first steam-powered ship to cross the Atlantic, leaving from Savannah, Georgia, later the side-wheel steam equipment removed, it sank in a storm off Fire Island, New York, after refitted to sail only.

Also the P2 class troop carriers of WWII, my grandfather served on the U.S.S. Buckner, they were cut in half (like the M.S. Mount Washington in New Hampshire also) and a section added to the middle of the ship to make them carry a complete particular division of US Marines, he once related. A P2 propeller from a troop carrier stands outside the Kings Point Merchant Marine Academy's museum on Long Island, and can be seen from the various online public aerial mapping services.

One can also can be seen, one of the four, from the S.S. United States a large propeller outdoors on exhibit at the New York State Maritime College at Fort Schuyler, across the bay. I think it still holds the record for crossing the Atlantic.

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Set the controls for the heart of the city…

Here is a SkyDrive listing for a pdf from a publication that a friend I worked for five years with, Victor Ortiz sent me recently from Mexico. He's in Mexico an archaeologist there, after working here for Grossman & Associates. I had met the gentleman in the article at a Rolleimetric upgrade on Long Island at Schneider Instruments. A Canadian firm was promoting 3D CAD field recording, using a system in development from Germany by Rollei, still available, in close-range photogrammetry, which brings the science of aerial mapping to earth, hand-held, and is used in variety of measurements, the first public use announced as I recall, ca. 1991, vehicular accident recording and accident investigation in England. Other uses are measuring a large land column by the sea, an abandoned Nazi stronghold on the Baltic eroding away, for example, or the "as-built" recording of a prairie church or mansion in Canada. Another use I read was the late 20th century planning for the "Crazy Horse Monument" out in the American West to aid in the mountain removal leaving the sculpture.

The gentleman, at the "2.0" upgrade, (Rollei stopped relying on Autodesk's AutoCAD for screen representation, a limiting number), gave me his business card, in charge of all the federal historic monuments in Mexico. He described the need for recording the large stones inside the cathedral needed to be documented and determined if they were moved by settling, i.e., water table falls, seismic events, perhaps archaeology, part of it also on a Spanish destroyed Aztec pyramid. In Version 1.0 I found the English translations from German difficult to understand, not a photogrammacist, though I did encounter aerial survey as part of archaeology training, plane-table alidade, etc., though not in a prehistory of Long Island field-school, a small site on Mount Sinai Harbor, NY. The English directions then came with it where before there were just module descriptions!

I have often thought NYC urban archaeology could aid architecture and offer in analyses, ideas and theories. At the now South Street Seaport parking lot, future "250 Water St." site, across from the National Register building at 251 Water St., is where the earliest section of a shoreline and then beginning built "Water Street" began, could be an example. I had researched the history of the entire block provided with the "chain of title" for all the available land deeds. It went to the client in 1995 and I finally obtained a copy of what was sent later in the 21st century. I only had three weeks to provide it, the Main Reading Room of the NYC Library closed for the Rose family benefactor renovations, also the Hayden Planetarium.

Much of the history search came from old NYC history tomes stored at the Bronx's Huntington Free Library in Westchester Square, the former location of the Heye Foundation's Ethnology collection, that sent along with the artifacts to the Smithsonian's "Museum of the American Indian" only then considered, previous matching grants offers had failed to find benefactors I learned while in grad school. Today of course it is in part, on exhibit in the large former "Customs House" at the foot of Broadway in lower Manhattan.

Recorded correctly, other information can be extrapolated about the early city, where the maps were changed in the new surveyor's orientations. One orientation, for example, became the center of the city's orientation and survey in the 19th century, Columbus Circle. An agreed to be "0,0" for the city's property map boundaries, surviving today on the original "linens" that represent survey coordinates in feet plus West, plus East, plus North and plus South, presumably from a mark near or under the statue of Christopher Columbus (or Colon).

That in today's GPS coordinate geography is difficult to translate, "un-Cartesian" where positive and negative number lines (x,y) are employed from 0,0 in most mapping systems, that is numbers can decrease in one direction or another at the same time, not increase in both directions all the time from Columbus Circle heading away in any direction. Angles North also changed and street orientation and buildings changed, which recorded, may help explain, when people follow lines, whose or what lines they were following, therefore a relative date of an archaeological item of interest, unearthed in the middle of a large modern block. Not "mudlarking" as they say in England, legitimate excavation there seems very precise in photo.

I also can't afford the OCR and translation software, it's also a "scan" not a "document" so I thought someone might reply with a summary or critique. If not please enjoy! Americans helped restore the large pipe organ there after a terrible fire.

Asian News International; Jun 11, 2009; 685 Words ...Americas section. The dig is in the middle of what was the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan. Near by stands the Catedral Metropolitana de la Asuncion de Maria, which was built from the stones of Moctezuma's Templo Mayor, which was destroyed...

I signed the Columbus Circle Compass petition.

Saturday, August 08, 2009

Scotland's global impact conference

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Scotland's global impact conference

Eden Court Theatre, Inverness 22 – 24 October 2009

The earliest property maps from Scotland to survive are of seaweed harvest areas along its coast. It is called "dulse" today and is harvested in Maine, USA and Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, Canada. Some, the lousier of the seaweed, goes into animal feed supplements, containing many minerals and trace elements, it's been assayed. Hand harvested at times of lower cyclic tides due to the Moon, and some of the "highest" tides in the world, it's spread out for the sun to dry on large rocks or nets and turned over, till most of the water has left the "purple" or red seaweed. Spreading it requires that it loosely connect to other pieces making the turning over a little easier than piece by piece. When I helped pick it we dried it from the dory full of burlap sacks, on Indian Beach where there are many large cobbles from ostrich egg size to almost basketball size sea-rounded rock cobbles on the Grand Manan Channel, the chart of which is used as wallpaper in the "Men" restrooms at the "Red Lobster" restaurant "chain".

Friday, August 07, 2009

In Defense of Ryan O'Neal

"The first film with Dolby sound was "A Clockwork Orange" (1971)" and "Barry Lyndon" (1975) was the first with a scene shot entirely in candlelight using a Zeiss satellite lens attached to the camera, though "2001 - A Space Odyssey" (1968) couldn't find any theater in NYC in 2001, (1?) in Stanley Kubrick's hometown, him and Weegee were good friends, he the special effects consultant on "Dr. Strangelove" (1964) (both in hidden frames in a trailer). Maybe he was wondering why he wasn't cast with Farrah Fawcett in "Eyes Wide Shut" when his daughter, the movie star, showed up.  Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Wednesday, August 05, 2009

The Launch Pad: In Case You Missed It Monday

Interesting. I worked on an EPA Marathon Battery Superfund National Priority Site in Cold Spring, NY which removed nicad contaminated soils and marsh behind an earthen dam built in the former West Point Foundry environs, said from the NIKE ABM system. We found under the "Bridge Shop" remains (ca. 1913, over 500 ft. long, today they've built a gravity wave detector like Michelson-Morley's with lasers, much, much, longer) the remains of the "Swamp Angel" wooden gun platform and iron pintle on wooden grillage. The gun exploded in 1863 during the secret, hidden in a marsh, night-time incendiary bombardment of Charleston, South Carolina. The citizens of Trenton, NJ later bought the broken gun, and S.C. thinks it might know where it was in their swamp. Jules Verne had his buried cannon made by them in "From the Earth to the Moon" and gun-cotton fired from Florida, written in 1865. Iraq was building a "super-gun" after a Vermont inventor, apparently assassinated on a street in Holland in the early 90's. The 19th c. foundry later had one too, used dynamite from bolted together tubular sections. Something like it might make escape velocity.
The Launch Pad: In Case You Missed It Monday
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Our Drinking Water Under Siege

For an upfront look at the geology and the discovery of a meteor impact resulting from the discovery and proposal to drill for gas right at the source of much of New York City's water, from the Portal, where only electrical equipment, no oil or gasoline contaminates was used to dig miles of tunnels into the Catskills' mountain lakes from the Portal on the Esopus River feed to the reservoir see: Panther Mountain in the New York Catskills recently discovered to have been a remnant meteor impact. (Wikipedia) "Panther Mountain - Meteor Impact Crater" as seen in profile here [http://www.catskillcenter.org/panther/]. Gas prospecting helped find it, an interesting science detective story, if not frightening given the possibility of "hydrofracking" there for gas, when so much care was taken to build the Portal.

I hope the bill passes, we have much to protect. If it fails we have to look to Connecticut and Massachusetts for their western lakes according to the Army Corps of Engineers.

I worked a summer, a dishwasher at Timber Lake Camp nearby and a recent wildlife area was set aside the "Westkill Mountain Wilderness Area". What the frak!

Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Monday, August 03, 2009

Newsvine - Group wants probe of contractor role in renditions

The "shanghai" of citizens of other countries was one of the issues we fought the War of 1812 over, the taking of seamen from our ships to be used in the British Navy, besides the invasion of Canada that led to the burning of the White House and the fall of Baltimore, MD. I cannot see how the "ideology" of America is served by the clandestine purchase of over 20 jets and the imprisonment, in some cases suspects paid for from informants, without due process or anything remotely like a trial. I've also seen the so-called "observations" of "dangerous" people in our own hemisphere, John Lennon on the Stony Brook University, NY campus and info obtained under either the FOIA or the FOIL (in NY) of another working for archaeologists in Puerto Rico, and quite frankly, in both cases, the persons watching should have had sobriety tests, in my opinion. Waving money around, or I've read recently, putting phone numbers on American cigarette packs to call for info about turning in "insurgents" reminds me a bit of how badly the leaflets were dropped in Somalia which translated "We are here to enslave you" due to the screw-up in intelligence and translation it was reported in the American press. This again is another example of Republicans complaining about the "War Powers Act" as used by Democrats and when in office pushing them to the limits, after running for office on the promised limitations of such acts. Where is the oversite? Former President Bush in the first term stated the VP was in rights to keep his high-level meeting secret with the energy industry and I guess that's where it started, everything else too, secret, even from the Executive branch's own budgetary review agency, and above subpoena by the Office of Management and Budget, the OMB. I hope this investigation continues for our own ethics and safety and because it is in violation of other nation's law, one, Ireland whose citizens who wore black shamrocks the Easter it "caught" the US flying through its airports in "extraordinary rendition".
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Dangerous Cows - TierneyLab Blog - NYTimes.com

I read of a study in Scotland where cows were milked when they would prefer to be milked about 11:00pm when they’ve settled down. The study was for a robot milker which would be convenient for the cows not the humans. I think they also showed a higher yield.
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Saturday, August 01, 2009

Newsvine - NY man sentenced in college grades-for-pay scandal

My cousin's son just graduated from there. It's good that they caught this guy, it shows we're at least going to make the effort to prosecute "white-collar" crime, not just the "penny-ante". The "white collar" was invented in Troy, NY allowing the management class to wear their shirt more than one day, replacing the collar, which was bulk cleaned. The collar workers mostly women and children, working in the steam and bleach for low wages, were organized by Kate Mullaney, her house in Troy recently put on the US National Register of Historic Places. While sitting next to Susan B. Anthony she was the first woman elected to the management of a union, in Germania Hall, once on NYC's Bowery what could also be called the "oldest street in America" (Encyclopedia Americana). In 1999 I was co-researching the area and it has since been torn down, as well as the building noted feminist Kate Millet lived in and tried to stop its destruction next door to Germania Hall, as part of the Cooper Square Urban Redevelopment, once to demolish 25 square blocks of the Lower Eastside (ca. 1971).

In a new "smaller" community development effort, in what was once historically both New York City's Theater District and denominational (Quakers and Methodists) and surviving two marble vault non-denominational cemeteries, art museums and other cultural institutions have arrived to compliment what might be regarded as the oldest continually operating arts organization in the U.S., the Amato Opera, nearby the Bouwerie Theatre. CBGBs alas, did not survive there. Don't think there were any payoffs or crooks, just old-fashioned commercial use of the NYC Landmarks Commission website, with posted number and address for the apartments before there was even a review of the site, community hearings, and research, which I never heard comment on, nor received a copy of what was submitted. I did watch the public hearing on cable in the Bronx which took place after 9/11/01. 
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Pretty interesting. I had some experience in outdoor survey in archaeology. We used an Epson HX-20 hooked to a Leitz infrared tacheometer back in the mid-1980s and into the 1990s then switched to a Sokkisha which became Sokkia in the co's I worked for in contract archaeology in the mostly NY/NJ area. GPS was just getting on the ground in 1993. I used close-range photogrammetry from Rollei which creates its own coords to trace 3D info from photos on a digitizing tablet, the maths supplemented with other sources, transit and maybe GPS now? Then the digital cameras started really coming. This year I was looking at the Thales with DGPS which reading here seems to be going off the air. Ironically I was using Annapolis signals instead of Alexandria standing near the airfield at Quantico (WAAS?) where the "Marine One" Sea King will someday soon make its last flight replaced with a EU consortium built helicopter assembled and serviced in New York State thanks to Senator Clinton. Having access to a large GTCO digitizing tablet allowed various overlays to be traced "onto" (into) and through trial and error attempts at "predictive" locations of historic and prehistoric resources, using the earlier versions of AutoCad (2.3? to 12) Idrisi, and Corel scans-to-vector from field drawn profiles and sections, allowed interesting map work. For example, in the testing of designed impacts of the remediation of the National Priority Superfund Marathon Battery Site for the EPA in Cold Spring NY within the former operations of the West Point Foundry. Some of the map work was from a photo of a glass mounted map digitized, and with plotted tree survey and Psion recorded magnetometer survey, allowed the recovery of R. P. Parrott's gun platform "Swamp Angel" on grillage a gun platform prototype from the filled marsh. It was used in the incendiary bombardment of Charleston, South Carolina in 1863 in the American civil war using the Parrott patented rifled cannon, hidden in the marsh, its location there still not recovered. (1989-1994)
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