Is the entire historical archaeology (HISTARCH) community in the field or
on vacation? Certainly some of you must have known
Ed Rutsch and might want to comment or tell a Big Ed story. Industrial
archaeologists?  Urban archaeologists? Middle
Atlantic archaeologists?

My story:

I was attending a meeting of the Society for Industrial Archaeology in
Troy, New York (1970s) when Ed Rutsch offered me
a ride in his station wagon. As we drove down the street he looked over at
me and said, "Well Bob, here we are, the two
'heavies' of American Industrial Archaeology." *

[* People outside of North American may not get this one.]

Rutsch was one of the earlier American industrial archaeologists (i.e. of
the digging variety), an important urban archaeologist
and also an expert on the Colonial Period, especially the period of the
American Revolution.

                                                                 Bob Schuyler

Robert L. Schuyler
University of Pennsylvania Museum
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Philadelphia, PA l9l04-6324

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