Heavily edited. >Southwestern Archaeology, Inc. (SWA) > >"Got CALICHE?" Newsletter >Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of the Greater Southwest! > >Sunday October 15, 2000 >***************************************** >PRESERVATION >http://www.journalstar.com:80/nebraska?story_id=1289&date=20001015&past= >Gage County Heritage Preservation Inc.'s main goal is saving historic >buildings. The reservation school, once located east of Barneston, is a key >piece of the story. > >CALIFORNIA > >http://www7.mercurycenter.com:80/premium/local/docs/newhotel14.htm >Ornamental brickwork has earned Haslett Warehouse a spot on the National >Register of Historic Places. Kimpton plans to transform the three-building >warehouse into a hotel with a visitor center and museum in two years. The >Haslett Warehouse deal marks the largest historic building that the Park >Service has ever leased. > >NEW MEXICO > >http://www.abqjournal.com/biz/147239biz10-12-00.htm Route 66 mythology is a >major cultural and historical tourism asset, and New Mexico is the >quintessential Route 66 state. Next year from July 20 to 22, New Mexico >will join seven other states to celebrate the highway. Total travelers >retracing the route are expected to reach 1 million during 2001. New Mexico >Magazine will be putting out its second Route 66 theme issue in 11 years in >February. >UTAH > >http://www.sltrib.com/10142000/saturday/33019.htm Mormonism is the first >indigenous American religion that took a lot of ideas from Europe, not only >the occult and the supernatural, but ideas about the Lost Ten Tribes. LDS >teachings about the lost tribes has obvious connections to Europe's >"British Israel" movements of the 16th and 17th centuries. > >THE WEST IN MYTHOLOGY AND REALITY > >There is a myth that credits Horace Greely with the sentiment "If you have >no family or friends to aid you... turn your face to the Great West and >there build up your home and fortune... Go West, young man, and grow up >with the country." > >http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/wpages/wpgs400/w4turner.htm Frederick >Jackson Turner argued that dominant individualism democracy was the most >important effect of the frontier. Turner told a triumphalist story, but his >critics have argued that precisely the opposite was the case. Cooperation >and communities of various sorts, not isolated individuals, made possible >the absorption of the West into the United States. Moreover, revisionist >scholars argue, the West has not been the land of freedom and opportunity >that Turnerian history and popular mythology would have us believe. For >many women, Asians, Mexicans who suddenly found themselves residents of the >United States, and, of course, Indians, the West is no promised land. > >http://www.nandotimes.com/noframes/story/0,2107,500268780-500418169-50258644 >1-0,00.html Rural living is not all it's cracked up to be. Researchers are >just beginning to explore the reasons for the West's high rate, but there >is a thought that the frontier personality may be more accepting of suicide. > >***************************************** >SWA invites you to redistribute SWA's "Got CALICHE?" Newsletter, but >please, redistribute "Got CALICHE?" in it's entirety or note that you have >edited out or clipped articles for re-transmission. > >Free subscription @ <http://www.swanet.org/news.html>. > >Thanks for reading today's edition! > >Southwestern Archaeology, Inc. (SWA) - A 501(c)(3) not-for-profit >corporation dedicated to electronic potlatch and digital totemic increase >rites that focus and multiply historic preservation activities in the >Greater Southwest. Our goal is to create and promote an environment in >which archaeologists can develop their talents and take the risks from >which innovation and productivity arise. > >WWW Address: <http://www.swanet.org> > >Mailing Address: Southwestern Archaeology, Inc., >P.O. Box 61203, Phoenix AZ, USA 85082-1203 > >Newsletter Editor: Brian W. Kenny >E-mail: <[log in to unmask]> >Telephone: 602.882.8025 / Fax: 603.457.7957 >Toll-free VM Messaging: 1.800.699.2466 >(SWA VM mailbox # is 272.436.5649 or 'ARCHEOLOGY') > > Anita Cohen-Williams CohWill Consulting Internet Researcher / Information Architect List Owner of HISTARCH, SUB-ARCH, and SPANBORD [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] Voicemail: 858-860-6406 x1642