BOOM BABY!!!!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/30/ric-savage-american-digger_n_1392285.html
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From: "Jim Tauber" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2012 6:04:54 PM
Subject: Re: American Diggers again (oh no, not again!)
I had this conversation with some 18-20 year olds in a class a few months ago. It was a liberal studies class and most of the students had little interest in the idea of doing it because it was the right thing and would help us to understand where we came from. Our (American) view of land ownership and the boon of some treasure held far more sway with them. The only argument that I found successful was making it very personal. I picked out a student who had talked about his family living in our area for generations. I asked him how he would feel about me buying his family farm and then going on a hunt for parts of his past. Finding an old family Bible in a barn, selling that dresser that his great grandfather brought with him from Germany, or pulling the rings off his grandmothers bones to sell (yes I know it is illegal). Some got it, others just won’t.
Jim
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From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Susan Walter
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2012 5:12 PM
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Subject: Re: American Diggers again (oh no, not again!)
Hi All,
IF you all, like me, were trying to explain this ethical problem to a bunch of 10 to 15 year olds, what would YOU say?
I have a lot of impoverished students here, and money is a constant issue.
My summer classes begins in a couple weeks.
S. Walter
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From: "Harding Polk" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 4:02 PM
Subject: American Diggers again (oh no, not again!)
Well they've done it again. AOL/HufffingtonPost posted another article on
American Diggers (see below). Arrrgh!
On the latest episode of “_American Digger_
(http://www.aoltv.com/show/american-digger/9057067) " (Wed., 10 p.m. ET on
Spike), Ric Savage and his crew
headed to Jamestown, Va., in search of colonial relics. But perhaps more
exciting than America’s origins was Ric Savage himself!
Savage stopped by the TVReplay studio to chat about his trip and the
amazing discovery he and the American Savage crew made: a British cannon
from
the 1700s.
After a freezing-cold dive, crew member Rue discovered it at the bottom of
a lake. The cannon, combined with a glass onion bottle and a grenade
fragment, got Ric a whopping $10,000. He called the weapon one of the most
important finds in his company’s history.
Watch our interview with Ric above – we talk British accents (he even did
one) and, of course, his “Boom Baby!” catchphrase. Indeed, Ric belted his
signature catchphrase for us – a priceless find in itself.
“American Digger” airs Wednesdays at 10 p.m. ET on Spike.
Interesting they don't mention what lake, I'm suspecting maybe Lake
Champlain because of the cold and British references.
More curious is that he is heading to Jamestown VA. Now I know that the
entire Jamestown Island is owned by NPS, except for a ca. 10 acre parcel
owned by the Assoc. for Pres. of VA Antiquities where Jamestown Discovery
has
been excavating the original fort for the past 10 years plus. Adjacent on
the mainland is Jamestown Fort operated by the Jamestown/Yorktown
Foundation. I don't think any of them is interested in Ric Savage coming
to savage
their properties. Is he going to work offshore in the James River (like
Joel Shiner did in the 1950s) and thumb his nose at NPS and APVA? Even in
the river I'm sure he needs a state permit. There is a little private land
on the adjacent mainland.
Its unfortunate that they are getting continued national press, but I
suppose it is to be expected when they continue to find such "important"
artifacts (read: most $ for any one artifact). One wonders what the
disposition
and, more importantly, its condition is now that it is out of its mostly
stabilized underwater environment. I'm sure as we sit here and read, it is
popping, fizzing, flaking, and exfoliating as the oxidation process
(rusting) has been so suddenly accelerated.
My rant for today.
Harding Polk II
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