I had to use this particular email to ask you if the Hornos Bunny topped my faux
pas on the Listserve!!!!!  <Laughing so hard my face hurts!>

Sister Mary
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It is within the boundaries of love that you discover life. Enjoy it!


Quoting "Robert L. Schuyler" <[log in to unmask]>:

> Most Memorable Find
>
> So many I can not separate them - I am amazed by just about everything
> historical archaeologists dig up. If I had to select I
> would offer something different. I found in the special collections of the
> Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley a hand written (ca.
> 13 pages) autobiography of a key person in the town where we were
> excavating, Silver Reef, Utah Territory (ca. 1876-1896).
> He was the newspaper editor, a lawyer, the mining recorder, the post office
> master and he ran a general store, all at different
> times in the town's history. The "memorable" discovery was that before he
> went out West (after the Civil War) he was in
> Pennsylvania and he helped to build College Hall at Penn (1870s) where, at
> the time of our project, I had one of my offices (American Civilization).
> That was  quite a discovery.
>                                                          Bob Schuyler
>
> P.S. I am not a "fossil", nor an artifact, nor a Republican. Sister Mary
> (a.k.a. Most Reverent Holy Mother), if you do not
> stop "kissing up"  to me on HISTARCH you are going to grow prehensile lips.
> [P.P.S. Do not answer or comment on this
> comment on HISTARCH].
>
>
> At 08:02 AM 10/13/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> >This is a wonderful thread!  What better  way to start what will be a
> >slightly dreary morning writing about very rusted, no diagnostics-bearing,
> >early 20th century overalls buttons than a trip down memory lane thinking
> >about the things that got me into this field in the first place!  Hafta
> jump
> >in here with a couple of neat finds that at the time and place seemed of
> >international importance to me.
> >
> >Most likely the MOST memorable thing I ever found was back on my first
> >project when we excavated an Russian contact period Aleut longhouse site on
> >Unalaska Island and I found a crushed copper samovar (ugly little thing
> >really) sitting upon what was at one time the grass matting of the house
> >floor.  I'm not sure what was neatest, the samovar, or the perfectly
> >preserved 150-yr old beach grass adhereing to the surface!  That was topped
> >shortly afterwards by the find of a hand-carved faceted amber bead about
> the
> >size of a grape at the other end of the longhouse.
> >
> >Fast-forward a few years to an historic Choctaw townsite excavation in
> >southeast Oklahoma.  We were excavating the remains of a Removal Period
> >townsite, and were in search of the hotel known to have been in the town.
> >1830's ceramics were in abundant supply, and we were definitely excavating
> >some type of building, when one of the volunteers turned over a large
> >ceramic platter fragment, and on the base it said "hotel".  Now I realize
> >that doesn't mean we were sitting in the remains of the hotel, but it sure
> >was neat!
> >
> >Lynita Langley-Ware
>
> Robert L. Schuyler
> University of Pennsylvania Museum
> 33rd & Spruce Streets
> Philadelphia, PA l9l04-6324
>
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