Hola Bill. First, I owe you a huge apology. The email I sent you I thought I was sending to my student Bill Oakes about a possible field trip to NM. I had your HISTARCH email up and sent it to that address by mistake - I simply had "Bill" on the mind. I apologize and I am embarrassed. Secondly, I am tickled you emailed me Bill, even though we have not meet I use your bottle work in work I do here in central Tennessee - I have my students use your web site and I simply love your work. Not only is it invaluable but it is so very applicable and user friendly. I owe you a huge thank you for providing me such a good reference source. With all that said I would love to meet up with you in the near future. I take students to NM at least once a year. I did my dissertation on a New Mexican topic (out of Univ. of Oklahoma) in historical geography but using archeologically generated data to look at the Hispano village of El Cerrito (outside of Las Vegas on the Pecos). I also spent a little time working with the Lab of Anthro/OAS doing contract work with the likes of Jeff Boyer and Jim Moore. I fell in love with NM the first time I saw her and can't seem to let go even though I have been in TN for almost 25 years. So with my ramblings what I am getting at I would love to meet up with you sometime and please let me buy you a coffee (or something more stout if you choose) to thank you for providing me a web source that is so very useful. Congrats on the retirement Bill (I still have 8-10 years to go - still have a son I have to get thru high school and college!) but I hope to live the dream like you will soon be - sooner rather than later. Please let's stay in touch in hopes of working out a visit and again forgive the email blunder but how serendipitous! Best Regards, doug
Douglas Heffington, Ph.D.
Director & Professor
Global Studies and Cultural Geography Program
Middle Tennessee State University
615.898.5978
www.mtsu.edu/global
It’s time to cross the wild meridian, grab your bag and take a chance. Jimmy Buffett
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From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of William Lockhart
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 11:31 AM
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Subject: Re: New book on 19th Century Coffin Hardware
Hi Doug,
The timing is interesting. My wife, Wanda, and I are retiring at the end of this semester, and our final exams are the first week of May. The following week, we begin an intensive history class that meets for a currently unspecified time each day (my guess is 3-4 hours, culminating in a trip to Mexico City during the final two weeks of May.
Once we return, we will be free for at least a couple of weeks before we hit the road. We live in a motor home and will be traveling the country.
All this is to explain that early June would be perfect, but may would be spotty.
Bill
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From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Doug Heffington
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 7:04 AM
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Bill would sometime in may or week week of june work for you for a New mexico trip?? Let me know asap. doug
Douglas Heffington, Ph.D.
Director & Professor
Global Studies and Cultural Geography Program Middle Tennessee State University
615.898.5978
www.mtsu.edu/global
It’s time to cross the wild meridian, grab your bag and take a chance. Jimmy Buffett
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From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of William Lockhart
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2015 11:27 AM
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Subject: Re: New book on 19th Century Coffin Hardware
I can't speak for all, of course, but I appreciate "self-promotion." I wish more people would post reports, books, and articles. This is a perfect venue for discovering what others are doing.
Bill
Bill Lockhart
Professor of Sociology
New Mexico State University
2400 Scenic Dr.
Alamogordo, NM 88310
575-439-3732
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From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Megan E. Springate
Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2015 10:11 PM
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Subject: New book on 19th Century Coffin Hardware
Pardon the self-promotion; I hope Histarch members will find this useful.
Left Coast Press has recently published my book, Nineteenth-Century Coffin Hardware in America, in both hard- and soft-cover.
It is available directly from Left Coast Press, as well as major online book retailers.
http://www.lcoastpress.com/book.php?id=535
Using data from archaeological excavations, patent filings, and marketing catalogs the book provides a broad view of the introduction, spread, and use of mass-produced coffin hardware in North America. At the book's heart is a standardized typology of coffin hardware that recognizes stylistic and functional changes and a fresh look at the meanings and uses of the various motifs and decorative elements. Within the discussion of mass-produced coffin hardware in North America is new work connecting the North American industry with its British antecedents and a fresh analysis of the prime factors that led to the introduction and spread of mass-produced coffin hardware. Extensively illustrated with examples of coffin hardware to aid scholars and professionals in identification.
"An indispensable reference work for this fascinating area of the material culture of deathways. " - Edward L. Bell, author, Vestiges of Mortality & Remembrance
" Megan Springate has compiled an important and groundbreaking work that includes a typology of coffin hardware, a discussion of the social mean related to these artifacts, as well as a compelling history of mass produced coffin hardware found in North America. Important to this work is an overview of the social history of burial practices and associated coffin material culture. Her research also confronts the complexity of linking coffin furniture to religion, gender, and ethnicity. *Coffin Hardware in the Nineteenth-century America* is a significant work that is a necessary reference for archaeologists." - Paul A. Shackel, Professor, University of Maryland
--Megan.
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