Hey Guys, we are all reading about your travel plans...
On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 13:48:00 -0400, Doug Heffington
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> 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
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> William Lockhart
> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 11:31 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 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
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Doug
> Heffington
> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 7:04 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: New book on 19th Century Coffin Hardware
>
> 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
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> William Lockhart
> Sent: Friday, March 27, 2015 11:27 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 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
> [log in to unmask]
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Megan E. Springate
> Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2015 10:11 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 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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