Arkansas Bear

I'm peach Walker B. and I make twice as much as Bill C. Next to Condi Rice, I look like Billy D. I hope you like Column A and Column B Because that's who we're having for dinner. Why, when everyone knew Monica L., Lived next door in the Watergate to Bob D., Did we have to be so saintly, like LDS, Who, started out in western NY, Burned out, like other Biblical polygamists, Did we put the CIC, instead, of in front of Sitting B. Sitting Starr? Arkansas Bear

Borderless? We can be borderless...

"State of New York, Report of the Regents of the University on the Boundaries of the State of New York." Transmitted to the Legislature May 28th, 1873" from Albany: The Argus Company, Printers 1874" which resulted from a resolution of the Senate, adopted April 19, 1867, submitted by the Chancellor of the University, John V. L. Pruyn. I found it wondering about the "Dongan Patent" which I was told gives the State the property below the high tide line in and any other underwater property. Part of a "folk legend" is that legally one may walk down a beach from one place to the next by walking below the tide line. Another problem in wetlands that it could be a part of is that the whole legal system, it's said, adjusted to "neighbor" relations; i.e., the tree limb fell on my property, not the jetty 1/2 a mile away has scoured out my beachfront (a legal practice problem on rivers too, down river upriver though not adjacent and especially when whole States are involved, a reel-to-reel tape I pulled out of the garbage at Hofstra Law School (William Kunstler and Bella Abzug's alma mater) discusses the problem of "Federal inter pleader" cases when it occurs) Anyway I was interested in it, and it goes into when the Duke of York had jurisdiction and his holdings included Pemaquid now in Maine.

Contact Your New York State Senator

Please take immediate action to protect New York's threatened wetlands. Wetlands are vital resources for all New Yorkers - they maintain clean drinking water, prevent flooding, and protect habitat for ducks fish and other wildlife. Yet, the federal government has stopped regulating "isolated" wetlands, or those that are not connected by surface waters to waters of the U.S., and in most circumstances the state only regulates wetlands that are 12.4 acres and above. This means that many of New York's wetlands are entirely unprotected. Imagine, for a moment, if you were I working in "contract archaeology" as I do or have for many companies in New York State. From Fort Drum, to Montauk Point I have seen small wetlands often the only reason they are tested for legally ordered archaeological significance. As you may know, many wetlands under 12 acres are not on maps, and cannot be tested and lands, once wetlands, are discovered from their underlying soils, perhaps creating unsafe building foundations. I have also seen areas marked wetlands in our neighbor, New Jersey, turned into office parks, though cited as wetlands by the US Army Corps of Engineers! New Jersey has an office in Trenton that evaluates all the maps ever drawn in NJ to see who is living on "made land" illegally in former wetlands and goes after them for taxes due! I also worked for the Hackensack Meadowlands Development Commission. Don't get me started! I strongly support the Clean Water Protection/Flood Prevent Act, S.4480-a, sponsored by Senator Marcellino. This act would better protect New York's wetlands by reducing the size threshold for state regulation to one acre and ensuring that wetland status is determined by scientific criteria not the state's wetlands map. This bill has passed the Assembly and has broad based support in the Senate. There is no reason to continue to delay the passage of this bill. Instead, I respectfully request that you personally ask Senator Bruno to schedule this bill for a vote when the Senate returns to Albany November 18th. Sincerely, George J. Myers, Jr. BA Anthropology

Camp X

www.campxhistoricalsociety.ca Was Michael (or Mike) Myers raised here? Don't get me wrong I like Ike.

Flight 800, before the report

If you can contact WNBC News in NYC. One Saturday, they came on the air with one of the four pumps in the center tank removed (with receipt) from an aircraft "boneyard" out in the American desert. They wanted people to see it and claim in an affadavit I think, that the wiring was frayed as stated when removed. In other words, the cause of the "flash". I forget the name of the newsman who reported it on a Saturday sometime after the "accident".

Governors Island, NYC

An emotionally disturbed man in a wet suit tried to seize Governors Island by hoisting a pirate's flag. The incident caused a massive response by the U-S Coast Guard and New York City police. Nash said he was a presidential candidate in 2000, running for the Blue Tulip Party. CBS2 NEWS 11/5/2004 I worked for four days over there in archaeology when they were still arguing over then President William Clinton's offer (funny where's Jefferson I used to think you have Fort William(s) and Castle Clinton, where's Jefferson, William Jefferson Clinton?) if the right uses for it could be established, we could have it for $1, instead of what Congress' scheme to do with it, reduce the National debt by $500 million for it. Mayor Giuliani reported putting a casino there. Geoarchaeology Research Associates of the Bronx, for the Public Archaeology Lab of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, did some testing there for the deeper geology around Fort Jay. One of the tests was in the wall of the dry moat another near the covered subterranean walk that once connected Fort Jay with Fort Williams. While we were there the "last" Coastguardsman grounds-keeper was by a few times telling us about the island and I also strolled around as much as I could. About the same time, incidentally, the Omega company agreed to replace all the faulty fire sprinklers in Federal buildings (over 1 million) but was refusing to in private and commercial space (over 3 million of them I think). (The ferry when I was to it, was "The Swivel" and it was run by a Caterpillar engine. I later met its Captain digging test holes on and near Gateway Park on Staten Island, he had a "blond" Irish wolfhound he was walking. He stated that all the ferry crews had been fired and the City was trying to re-arrange everything based on new employees.) 1) There is a monument next to the swivel gun monument to Peter Zenger I can't recall what it was. Perhaps you might mention the swivel gun. 2) The eagles you show are Army eagles facing to the left, other eagles, from the Coast Guard era face right (or vice versa) on some of the other buildings. 3) Some of the iron work there was made by foundries in the Bronx (coal chute covers on the Officers "mansions" are from the Mott Foundry in the Bronx. The Janes and Kirtland foundry in the South Bronx made and assembled, the current US Capitol Dome during the Civil War for a little over $1 million. 4) It was reported that the first flight school by the government in the US was held there, planes catapulted into the air. There is also some talk of whether there was a canoe tied to Wilbur Wright's plane when he flew off there to Grant's Tomb and back and what happened to it, as it is now at the Smithsonian. 5) Recently some chatter had that the plans to "Operation Overlord" the D-Day invasion plans, were kept in the safe at the Admiral's House. 6) chestnuts (the edible ones) grow there near Fort Jay. Might they be the original Pagganck or Nutten that the natives then the Dutch called the island? 7) A Revolutionary War, unmarked cemetery was found when electrical upgrades were to be installed in parking lots to the west of the ferry landing. There is a marker there that might be good to include in any update of the site. Nothing other than the dates are known for those buried there once in the "field of view" of the Twin Towers. 8) General and President Grant's first assignment before Captain at Governors Island was as Lt. Grant, just out of West Point, to Sackett's Harbor, on Lake Ontario, near Watertown, NY.

And now for some American Archaeology

I had field school in Long Island Archaeology taught by R.M. Gramly, Ph.D., of R.P.I. and Harvard University (and other classes) in 1977, assisted by Margaret Gwynne, Ph.D., since a Stony Brook faculty member and Sherene Baugher, Ph.D., whose doctoral defense at Stony Brook I attended, who became NYC's first Landmarks Preservation Commission Archaeologist, now President of the Council For Northeastern Historical Archaeology (CNEHA, I am also a member) and at Cornell University in Landscape Architecture. As a graduate student I submitted a proposal in a "Archaeology Proposal Writing" class taught by a then National Science Foundation (NSF) advisor in their archaeology proposals, Edward Lanning. Ph.D. In that proposal class, testing and research was submitted for a site nearby the Vera Cruz, PA "jasper mine" which I had visited a number of times. The mine had been partially destroyed by the N.E. Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, lithics from it, (abandoned about 1610 A.D. according to early tree-ring dating by Pennsylvania's folk museologist, Dr. Mercer) found as far away as New England, according to the DOT sign. The Seem Seed Farm, where I mapped and collected some lithics, nearby, was then in the way of another interchange proposed, for Allentown, PA. I had worked in the nearby Hopewell Village Foundry, NHS, for the Dept. of Interior's Denver Service Center in the archaeology of the "Ironmaster's House" after receiving my B.A. We stayed in a youth hostel in Geigertown, PA, for cheap, included in the proposal. A retired teacher across the street from "Jasper Park" in Vera Cruz, PA, had shown me a fluted point dated by the U. of Penn., they said, "...to be at least 10,000 years old" which he found next door in the plowed corn field. While an undergrad I had visited various lithic source areas in the region with fellow students. In field school, we visited "Mt. Jasper" and it's rhyolite adit, near Berlin, New Hampshire, on the Androscoggin River drainage which has "curated assemblages" (estimated over 1/4 million in R.M. Gramly's published research) as tools were discarded and made from rhyolite (green to grey) found as far away as the Maine coast. A part of the Androscoggin River drainage (said to be America's "most abused" river in "Evolution of a Valley") it empties into the Atlantic after flowing through Maine. Cryptocrystalline quartz, the "jasper" in NE Pennsylvania, however, has another origin, not volcanic. It's said to be from nodule formation in limestone percolated by super-heated steam, and drainage. It is usually brown but turns red when heat-treated. This jasper in PA is also known as "turtleback" jasper, from the turtle shaped sections found, perhaps shaped to be carried a long distance as a turtle carries its shell. I worked with a flint-knapper there from Maryland who had such a piece, perhaps a morphological trait from primary flaking of the large nodules, formed under geological pressure.

Did Sir Thomas Urquhart translate this quote?

"Printing likewise is now in use, so elegant and so correct that better cannot be imagined, although it was found out but in my time by divine inspiration, as by a diabolical suggestion on the other side was the invention of ordnance." - Rabelais

Earthjustice - Take Action

I write in strong opposition to the proposed hatchery policy and its application to 27 salmon and steelhead species in the West. Wild salmon are the key to the recovery of the species and the communities and economies that depend on them, but the new proposal would have devastating, long-term impacts on the future of wild salmon and steelhead and their habitat. The proposal defies the goal of restoring abundant, self-sustaining, and harvestable populations of wild salmon, which would provide valuable economic and recreational opportunities. The Endangered Species Act was not intended to provide a means to conserve fish in concrete hatchery tanks. Rather, it was enacted to conserve threatened and endangered species and their ecosystems. Including hatchery fish in population counts of wild salmon and steelhead does not conserve those truly threatened and endangered species, but instead creates an incentive to continue harming the fragile ecosystems they depend on and to ignore much needed restoration efforts in those systems. Without good habitat, these species will face continued decline and possible extinction. This policy will accelerate that demise. Your own scientists recommended that hatchery fish should not be treated the same as wild salmon because this could increase the risk of extinction for these species. Your agency has ignored your own panel of experts, including six of the world's leading ecologists, who warn that this policy could prove disastrous for wild salmon stocks. The inclusion of hatchery fish will mask the ongoing declines of the wild fish by providing a false sense of security and recovery. Salmon and steelhead and their habitat cannot afford any more mismanagement. I urge you to withdraw your hatchery policy and propose that only wild salmon and steelhead and their habitat be protected under the Endangered Species Act. If this were policy in New York, we'd be known as the "brown trout" state, instead of the sport fishing it has come to be known for. Recently, sturgeon are being re-introduced into the Hudson River, once the source of food for many industries, i.e., the American Revolution (General Washington and 6000 French toops crossed it at Verplank, the Kings Ferry, to defeat Cornwallis in Virginia) sites later of brickyards, hotels, etc.

UFO's

Title: Avianca, The Airline of Columbia, Boeing 707-321B, HK 2016, Fuel Exhaustion, Cove Neck, New York, January 25, 1990. NTSB Report Number: AAR-91-04, adopted on 4/30/1991 NTIS Report Number: PB91-910404 Title: SAN SIMEON, CA HEARST PUBLICATIONS, INC. ACCIDENT DATE: 2/24/38 NTSB Report Number: CAB-FE38A