Ummm, I suspect that Dennis was referring to Henry Miller the 
novelist.  At least, as I reread his email, I hope he was.

Lauren Cook

----- Original Message -----
From: Kate and Silas <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Saturday, September 17, 2005 6:34 pm
Subject: Re: Writing on Walls and pull tabs

> Interestingly enough, the Millers, first George and then Henry, 
> were 
> the curators at Historic St. Mary's City. Until I took the job 
> some 
> people thought it was hereditary.
> 
> The again, I have run into people who thought Eighteenth-Century 
> Ceramics From Fort Michilimackinac was written by Garry Stone and 
> George Miller.
> 
> Silas Hurry
> non-Miller Curator HSMC
> 
> At 05:41 PM 9/17/05, you wrote:
> 
> >While we're in full pedantic flight, it was George Miller who did 
> >the Owens research but I think a Henry Miller description of the 
> >Owens bottling technology story would be far more lurid, steamy 
> and 
> >popular with students and grown-ups alike.   That lip finishing 
> >technology would really get an interesting treatment.
> >
> >Denis
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Thompson" 
> <[log in to unmask]>>To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2005 4:43 AM
> >Subject: Writing on Walls and pull tabs
> >
> >
> >>Just checked the Norfolk District website (my employer, the 
> Norfolk 
> >>District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) where we used to have 
> some 
> >>images of graffiti on the walls of one of the buildings in Fort 
> >>Norfolk (c. 1810 - part of the original coastal defense 
> network). 
> >>The grafitti had been left by soldiers held captive there during 
> th 
> >>Civil War. I'll root around and see if they don' show up 
> somewhere 
> >>else. My understanding of Section 106, is that the archaeologist 
> is 
> >>required to report ANY and ALL resources that might be 
> significant 
> >>encountered during investigations for 106 regardless of whether 
> or 
> >>not they relate the items specificied in the original documents 
> >>(MOA or whatever).
> >>
> >>To fail to do so, would be like saying, "Well, we didn't find 
> the 
> >>remains of the 1810 Fort, and we're not reporting the Paleo-
> Indian 
> >>site that we encountered while looking for it, because it wasn't 
> >>specified in our contract. This highlights the intense 
> foolishness 
> >>of saying that Section 106 investigations should be "confined to 
> >>the original research design" specified in the investigation 
> >>agreement. Using the "research design" as an excuse to ignore 
> >>resources not called out in that document is unprofessional, 
> >>irresponsible and unethical. This should not be a question for 
> any 
> >>professional archaeologist.
> >>
> >>I lived across the street from a machinist here in Richmond who 
> >>worked for many years for the Reynolds Aluminium Company, on a 
> team 
> >>that developed and continued (and probably continues) developing 
> >>the pull-tab. These guys don't write journal articles for 
> "Journal 
> >>of aluminum technology"; they're practical factory guys. Product 
> >>vendors don't usually design or manufacture the containers into 
> >>which their beverages are placed for sale; they buy them from 
> >>suppliers, like Reynolds, and use them at their "bottling" or 
> >>filling facilities. The can manufacturers are intimately 
> involved 
> >>in the sale and set-up of filling machinery, but with some 
> possible 
> >>exceptions, don't dictate to the producers which technology to 
> use 
> >>at a particular location.
> >>
> >>Tieing the type of pull tab to a particular product probably 
> only 
> >>has efficacy at the regional level, or even more locally, 
> depending 
> >>on the product, where decisions about what filling technology to 
> >>use at a particular filling plant are made. The failure to 
> >>recognize this allows the projection of late eighteenth and 
> early 
> >>nineteenth century technology, inappropriately, into the 
> twentieth century.
> >>
> >>Go back and study Henry Miller's research on the development of 
> >>Owens process bottle production to get a feeling for the 
> complexity 
> >>of twentieth century product delivery and don't fall into the 
> trap 
> >>of applying anachronistic analytical techniques to materials for 
> >>which they are not appropriate.
> >>
> >>Tim T.
> >>bottled in pedantic bond
> >
> >
> >
> >
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