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Profile: Undecided
Subject: Show Me the Money
From: GeorgeJMyersJr-2
Date: Jul 23 2004 4:21PM
"Governor" Kean, President of Drew University, Madison, NJ, where he lives behind copper beeches in Mead Hall in the "College in the Forest" it is called, was an interesting choice to head the commission. Woody Allen's wife comes from there, the NY/NJ Roebling Chapter of the Society For Industrial Archaeology meets there. I worked for Grossman & Associates in historical archaeology there. Mead Hall which had a terrible fire, reminds me of the commission. A worker it is alleged, was removing paint with a blow torch, which caused a fire, 9/10/01, a fire in the Newark Airport also. One can read the texts of the translated Nuzi clay tablets there, from Mosul, Iraq, found by Dr. Starr of Harvard in the early 1930's which I had to report on in Graduate School at Stony Brook University. Elizabeth Stone, Ph.D., from Stony Brook, is currently involved in the return of Iraqi antiquities we failed to protect, in some peoples opinions.
What wasn't known, to the worker, was that Mead Hall (the former Governor of New Jersey would not live in the Governor's Residence in Princeton when in office, much like the current NY Governor) is built with two walls, an inner brick wall, with an airspace of over a foot, to help cool the building. The air space helped the fire which mostly burned the roof off. We dug around where it is reputed, the first roses (from China) were cultivated in America, a real beauty, and in the basement as part of a landscape inventory, eventually all the trees were tagged for species identification too. We never found the over 100 foot deep wells, somewhere else on campus.
What does this have to do with the commission report, which I just began reading? Where's the 115 million cash that left the WTC that day? I am going to look in the report.
George Myers
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2004-07-24
I worked on a series of overlays of historic maps and a photo of a map along with other materials to try to restore where historic features had been, covered up since. We also created a database of the many trees at Drew University (named for an important Methodist in lower Manhattan history) and they were tagged by the campus botanist. I did a similar mapping project at Wave Hill, a botanical center and historic site in the Bronx, NY (once home to Mark Twain, Arturo Toscanini, the British Embassy in NYC until about 1962, and others) and with an infrared transit and CAD software other sites trees were mapped and identified. Is it a common task in archaeology yet?
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