Delaware Archaeology Week begins Saturday, May 9, with a public
presentation in the fire house at Cheswold, Delaware, and ends next
Saturday with a public dig experience in a state park ner Claymont.
 
The May 9 presentation will center around excavations at the Bloomsbury
site, sponsored by the Delaware Department of Transportation. Bloomsbury
was occupied during the Revolutionary and early Federal period by families
of Native American origin. Worked glass artifacts were identified.
 
As part of the background research, the authors examined the history and
genealogy of the Native American community in Kent County, Delaware,
through the postcontact centuries. This community, now known as the Lenape
Tribe of Delaware, is the principal sponsor of Saturday's presentation.
 
The program begins at 10 a.m. Cheswold is located just north of Dover, on
Route 13, less than two hours from Washington, Baltimore, and Philadelphia.
The public is invited and there is no admission charge. The morning session
will involve the historical research into the remaining Indian groups in
Delaware, while the afternoon session will discuss the archaeological
findings in the afternoon.
 
 
    _____
___(_____)
|Baby the\           Most problems in life have a single right
|1969 Land\_===__    solution and a single wrong solution, only
|  ___Rover   ___|o  one of which may involve duct tape.
|_/ . \______/ . ||
___\_/________\_/________________________________________________
Ned Heite, Camden, DE  http://home.dmv.com/~eheite/index.html