Where should I start
A conference with 1600 people instead of 15. Armed guards on the doors 
of banks etc in central Richmond (I know its more gentified now) , a 
city centre devoid of people except in cars after 6pm- that is very 
freaky for Europeans,  grits, frozen beer,
  getting eat out instead of eat in when tried to order breakfast on my 
first day, a failure to work the showers, light switches/alarm clock 
etc./ make the drinks machine fill my cup up.. Photos in lectures of 1 
metre wide excavations instead of 100 metres - the height of open area 
excavation in those days in the UK, US cultural anthropology which has 
rather different emphases to the hotchpoch of European social sciences 
though here has been a lot more cross fertilization since then.  However 
I discovered pecans, blueberry muffins (Both now ubiquitous over here), 
iced tea (not so keen) and eggs Benedict- yummy. Saw some amazing 
Virginian houses and the stunning James river got to talk with people 
like the late John Cotter and  thank you to Katherine Harbury who drove 
me to Williamsburg and Jamestown and thought I was being extravagant 
buying her  a meal in recompense at a Williamsburg tavern (for the cost 
of  a burger in London).

paul


On 08/05/2012 21:46, Linda Derry wrote:
> Curious.  What was most shocking (culturally) about Richmond in 1991?
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> Linda Derry
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of paul
> courtney
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> Subject: Introductions- Courtney
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> Hi Folks
>
>    I am a British archaeologist and historian who flits between the Middle
> Ages and later periods as well as the two disciplines. I am co-editor of
> Post-Medieval Archaeology (having joined the society as a 17 year old) and I
> work when I can as a freelance in commercial archaeology doing reports on
> everything from documents to pots. I started out life as an excavator and
> landscape archaeologist/historian but I now spend more time on ceramics and
> other small objects. I am along time member of SHA (since the mid 1980s) and
> a life member of CNEHA- and have an anthropological interest in both
> American and Continental European historical/post-medieval archaeology and
> their practitioners. My last trip across the pond was to the amazing
> Newfoundland conference organised at Memorial University in 2010 when I
> finally got to Red Bay having bought the booklet (the one with the nice
> cover of a whaling boat)  on my first trip to SHA Richmond in 1991-  a major
> culture shock.
>
>
> paul courtney
> Leicester
> UK
>