>Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 21:46:10 -0700
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>MEXICO
>
>http://www.freep.com:80/fun/arts/qgal1.htm The third root mestizo
>population evolved from the approximately 200,000 Africans brought to
>Mexican territory as slaves between 1521 and 1821. The Afro-mestizos, a
>minority with a population of 66,963 in 1990, are concentrated in the Costa
>Chica region along the Pacific coast three hours south of Acapulco.
>Twenty-nine villages exist within the states of Oaxaca and Guerrero.
>
>
>CALIFORNIA
>
>http://www.hotcoco.com/news/eastbay/ebaystories/ard35948.htm More than
>40,000 buildings a year are moved. Saturday morning, Jill and her husband,
>Ed Whitehurst, nervously watched house-mover Phil Joy tow their cream and
>brown 1916 bungalow up the street. Thanks to a federal historic
>preservation law and the Whitehursts' determination, their house has a home
>2,000 feet from its nearly century old site. "The whole point was to save a
>piece of history."
>
>
>NEVADA
>
>http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/1999/aug/01/509121550.html
>State parks officials are teaming up with the U.S. Forest Service to
>restore two Baldwin Estate cabins built nearly 100 years ago.
>
>http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/1999/Aug-01-Sun-1999/news/11673466.html The
>Mojave Desert Phone Booth by its fans, has developed a cult following from
>Las Vegas to Morocco. Daniels maintains an unofficial history of the booth
>at http://www.cardhouse.com/g/moj/mojave.htm. The two booths were once
>crucial to ranchers and miners who lived in the Mojave hinterlands,
>Casebier said, as they were the only means of communication available.
>Charlie Wilcox, a rancher who lives nearby, said he remembers the day when
>the booth was operated by hand crank. At the booth, Wilcox and his crew
>came upon offerings left by previous guests. Votive candles, a Barbie doll,
>a reproduction of male and female forms, and coding etched on the side of
>the Pioneer 10 space mission, and an aerial photograph of the booth. The
>glass was shot out by vandals long ago. The bullet holes in the metal frame
>are lovingly covered by plastic toy animals and Band-Aids.
>
>
>ARIZONA / NEW MEXICO
>
>http://www.azstarnet.com/public/dnews/0801BSA.html Varney's definition of a
>ghost town is simple: A town's population "has decreased markedly and the
>initial reason for its settlement (such as a mine or a railroad) no longer
>keeps people there. What this means is that there is room in Varney's book
>for high-flying Aspen, almost deserted St. Elmo and long gone Alta.
>
>
>TEXAS
>
>http://www.expressnews.com/genealogy/localnews/0801cemeteries.shtml
>Statewide attention is beginning to focus on how to preserve cemeteries for
>their cultural, historic and even tourist value. All across Texas, small
>towns are losing population, and as people move away, the commitment to
>cemeteries is waning. Hite and an assistant work full time preserving
>Texas' estimated 50,000 cemeteries. He started a program in 1997 to
>designate historic cemeteries by noting their existence in the property
>records. So far, 50 cemeteries have been designated historical.
>
>http://www.expressnews.com/folklife99/texasfolklife.shtml The 28th annual
>Texas Folklife Festival.
>
>http://www.expressnews.com/cityguide/history.shtml During his 40 days in
>San Antonio, Geronimo was escorted out of his cell every day to sit in the
>Quadrangle under the shade of a large tree to which he was securely
>chained. When townspeople heard about Geronimo's daily treks, thousands of
>the curious went to see the legendary warrior in person.
>
>
>COLORADO
>
>http://www.denverpost.com:80/news/news0801c.htm Utes avoid it. They stay
>away. Ghosts are alive and well in Indian Country. The Utes act as stewards
>for Indian tribes who trace their roots to the prehistoric Indians of Four
>Corners. "Ancestral Puebloans" is the name, but they also are called by the
>Navajo word "Anasazi." Centuries-old pottery shards and primitive tools
>litter the ground and rock ledges everywhere, as do ancient cobs of maize,
>well-preserved in this desert climate. There is no excavation here at the
>moment and no plans to do more.
>
>http://www.durangoherald.com/1news932.htm The initials and names left by
>vandals at the Falls Creek Archaeological Area have not been matched to the
>responsible parties, but a number of people have offered to monitor the
>sensitive cultural remains after reports of the damage surfaced, according
>to a U.S. Forest Service official. News of the vandalism even spurred one
>homeowner to return an artifact from the Falls Creek Archaeological Area
>that the previous owner had used as a doorstop.
>
>
>KANSAS
>
>http://www.wichitaeagle.com/news/regional/docs/carry0801_txt.htm Carry
>Nation artifacts returned to Kansas. Last month, a relative of Nation's
>donated several hundred of the famed prohibitionist's possessions to the
>Kansas State Historical Society, including two Bibles, photos, letters,
>hatchet pins and clothing. Nation, of Medicine Lodge, gained international
>fame by speaking out on the evils of liquor and tobacco. She was notorious
>for smashing saloons.
>
>http://www.wichitaeagle.com/business/local/tourism0801.htm Although summit
>organizers want to keep the event open-ended, some concepts already on the
>table are likely to be explored. Among them is the idea of niche marketing.
>A study done for the state Division of Travel and Tourism identified six
>categories, or niches, in Kansas that could be targeted at tourists: The
>Western frontier; Aviation; Ecology and the environment; Agri-tourism; Arts
>and culture; and, Hunting.
>
>
>WYOMING
>
>http://www.denverpost.com/news/news0726f.htm When the Union Pacific
>Railroad chose a route to California through Cheyenne, rather than Denver
>in 1865, the Wyoming town was heralded as the Emerald City of the Rockies.A
>focal point for Cheyenne's revival is the 1886 Union Pacific depot on 15th
>Street - a monument to the city's original reason for being.
>
>
>MONTANA
>
>http://www.billingsgazette.com/region/990801_reg05.html In 1935, Montana
>was the first state to undertake such a project. Through the years, the
>original signs have been revised, new ones added and some taken away. There
>are 184 now. They tell of dinosaurs, tribal legends, railroads, wagon roads
>and buffalo jumps - all the things that make Montana interesting.
>
>
>CYBERIA
>
>http://www.lancnews.com/sunday_news/maggota1.htm When you die,the bugs
>don't lie. Forensic entomology dates at least to the 13th century, when a
>Chinese death investigator wrote a book about human decomposition. Two
>decades ago at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Dr. William Bass III
>began human skeletal change studies at an institution known variously as
>the Body Farm or the Bass Anthropology Research Facility _ BARF.
>
>http://www.azstarnet.com/public/dnews/0801BM.html Krech suggests that -
>much like present-day Americans, native or not - Indians were ecologists
>when it suited their needs and despoilers when it did not. So how, Krech
>asks, could America "be simultaneously a paradise seemingly untouched by
>human hands," yet inhabited by people who had "exploited lands and animals
>in order to live"? Krech suggests that this seeming Eden "resulted both
>from aboriginal demography and - darkened by epidemic disease and death -
>from post-European epidemiology. The Indians, Krech writes, "were fully
>capable of transformative action in ecosystems they knew intimately. And
>when they became even fewer as a result of disease, the lands rested and
>recovered in relatively short order, in time to appear as an Eden to early
>Europeans. Paradise Eden was mainly an artifact of demography and
>epidemiology.
>
>http://www2.nando.net:80/noframes/story/0,2107,75526-119315-846448-0,00.html
> The thirst to be first has become typical of a consumer culture, said
>Elizabeth Bird, an anthropology professor at the University of South
>Florida and a longtime student of popular culture.
>
>http://www.latimes.com:80/excite/990801/t000068505.html Valerie Rochelle
>Littlestar Red-Horse Mohl straddles two cultures. In film circles,
>Red-Horse is one of a handful of Native Americans--and the only woman--in
>Hollywood has the access, the credibility to bring us to the next level.
>
>http://frontierpost.com.pk/art4july-02.html Globalisation becomes way of
>life. A friend of mine studies village life in central Africa. A few years
>ago, she paid her first visit to a remote area where she was to carry out
>her fieldwork. The evening she got there, she was invited to a local home
>for an evening's entertainment. She expected to find out about the
>traditional pastimes of this isolated community. Instead, the evening
>turned out to be a viewing of "Basic Instinct" on video. The film at that
>point hadn't even reached the cinemas in California. It isn't just a matter
>of people adding modern paraphernalia to their traditional ways of live. We
>live in a world of transformations. Instantaneous electronic communication
>isn't just a way in which news or information is conveyed more quickly. Its
>existence alters the very texture of our lives, rich and poor alike. It is
>influencing intimate and personal aspects of our lives. Globalisation is
>not incidental to our lives today. It is a shift in our very life
>circumstance. It is the way we now live.
>
>
Anita Cohen-Williams
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