Thanks for this heads up. I worked most weekends of four years for the 
Guildhall Museum London at which he had become a legend. One of my 
inspirations.
Does INH have a contact. I have a research interest related closely to 
an article he did on Guy Fawkes Celebrations/bonfire. It is important 
for me to contact him
-or anyone else intereested in archelogical pattern recognition for 
seasonal, calendar custom celebrations such as Fawkes and Bonfire. 
(Popes day in the USA).

Anyone know if in Boston any evidence for the november 5 celebrations 
has been located. There was much burned pagentry and effigies involved 
over a significant period and this would have been both rural and urban.

Conrad

somerwell wrote:

>Hi All,
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>Last evening I had the chance to read through Noel Hume's newly released autobiography titled: 
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>A Passion for the Past: The Odyssey of a Transatlantic Archaeologist.  
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>The book is published by The University of Virginia Press and is available on Amazon.com at a discount.
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>It is a wonderful read from one of the true pioneers in the field of historical archaeology and the progenitor of so many successful careers.  As with all of Noel's works, the prose is entertaining, informative, and inspirational. 
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>>From the Amazon website:
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>"Noël Hume is a household name. This book should be a professional classic, to be read alongside other memoirs like those of Graham Clark, Glyn Daniel, Gertrude Caton-Thompson, and Mortimer Wheeler. The childhood narrative is an astonishing memoir of loneliness written without a trace of self-pity. The book goes on to reveal how Noël Hume and his wife Audrey helped create the colonial heritage of Virginia with their judicious blending of solid archaeology and Anglo-American diplomacy." -- Carmel Schrire, Rutgers University, author of Digging through Darkness: Chronicles of an Archaeologist.
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